Ryan Petty

"Awesome. with some scripting and web 2.0 creativity maybe a mashup of all 5" - Ryan Petty

"This potentially gutsy satire chickens out with cheap shots and vulgar humor. You don't need to believe in God to take issue with Bill Maher's "Religulous," a quasi-documentary that mocks religion as ridiculous, crazy, even dangerous. It's a nasty, condescending, small-minded film, self-amused and ultimately self-defeating. Its only accomplishment is to make atheists look bad - and in this political climate they didn't need Maher's help with that." - Ryan Petty via Bookmarklet

Good news, developers of the world -- the Netflix API will be open to all starting tomorrow. As of October 1st, absolutely anyone can self-signup by visiting the read link, and while details are a tad sketchy at the moment, it sounds like this could hold some serious promise. The API itself allows access to data for 100,000 movie and TV episode titles, is completely free and (most importantly) allows commercial use. In other words, it's kosher if a bright developer out there somewhere feels like "creating an iPhone app to sell for $0.99 (Netflix's words, not ours)." On the technical side, the API includes a REST API, Javascript API and ATOM feeds, and it also uses OAuth standard security "to allow the subscriber to control which applications can access the service on his or her behalf." It's time to get creative, folks. - Ryan Petty via Bookmarklet

What the stock market does today or any day until short selling is restored, will tell us NOTHING. The pundits are going on CNBC, Fox, Fox Business, Bloomberg, etc and trying to give us some historic reference and relevance of the big declines in the market yesterday. They are comparing apples to oranges. Without short sellers, we have no idea what shares are actually worth. Short Sellers keep markets honest. A market without honesty, what can that tell us ? Nothing. - Ryan Petty via Bookmarklet

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My friend Lynn coined this phrase, and it really resonated with me. Parents or other adults who are irrationally committed to a kid's well being make a huge (perhaps the biggest) difference in that young person's life. Entrepreneurs who are irrationally committed to their business are far more likely to get through the Dip. Salespeople and service providers and marketers who are irrationally committed to customer service can completely transform an ordinary experience and make it remarkable. Is being irrational irrational? Of course it is. That's why it often works. If you're looking for the sensible, predictable, long-term strategy, this probably isn't it. Except when it is. - Ryan Petty via Bookmarklet