Category Archives: Shockey Monkey

How great software gets made

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There is a comment bot (or someone with entirely too much time) that pings me whenever a day goes by without a blog post or a comment. Daily Dose of Vlad. Seriously, if you can’t dig up another source of … Continue reading

Monkey Superpowers

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This one is going to be filthy… You’ve been warned. The blog post I wrote earlier today really made me think.. What “ability to work on multitask” really means. Apparently it means I suck at multitasking, at least judging by … Continue reading

The "Karl Palachuk" Feature

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One thing nearly all small businesses suck at is documentation of their inventory and processes. Unless they are a major chain managed and operated retail outfit, their documentation consists of postits and invoices kept somewhere by someone. So what is … Continue reading

The "Howard Cunningham" Feature

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One of the most important things I did with Shockey Monkey is to pick up the phone and call around the people that really had the whole SMB IT business figured out. If you are going to copy someone, you … Continue reading

Shockey Monkey 2 Beta Tomorrow

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Shockey Monkey 2.0 beta launches tomorrow at 2 PM. All portals, across all continents will be upgraded to Shockey Monkey 2.0 beta. I’m not Microsoft, beta means broken, so it is not recommended for production use but it’s better than … Continue reading

Shockey Monkey 2.0 Demo Week

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In case you are not following the Shockey Monkey mailing list, this is the first demo week of Shockey Monkey 2.0. Travis is taking a 100 or so partners in small groups and showing off the feature set behind some … Continue reading

What is different? (24 hours, 3 iPods)

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As I mentioned yesterday, if there was ever an easy way for you to score an iPod, this is it. Below you will find three pictures. What is different about them?     I need to know specifically what difference … Continue reading

SM: Moving the Lists, Ramping Activations & Migrations

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Time has come to decommission the Shockeky Monkey mailing lists as they have more than served their purpose. Earlier today a new mailing list server has gone online and I will be moving the content/people/etc to it at some point … Continue reading

If you gotta be a monkey, be a gorilla

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Today is a very proud day for me because I can finally say that Own Web Now Corp gave back in a really big way. One of the best things you can hope for in the IT business is that … Continue reading

BB in 1 Week with Monkey & Weasel

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After two years of pushing this stuff forward by myself (and a few thousand partners) the time has finally come to put the Own Web Now monster behind The Monkey and The Weasel and let it out of my direct … Continue reading