Don Wilson thoughts and ideals of an internet magnate

To be honest, I have at least 20 projects that I can spend all of my time on. The hard part of my life is figuring out what project/idea I should devote most of my time.

The project that has peaked most of my interest lately is TagItFunny, a digg-like site that allows users to post links, videos, images, jokes/stories, et al. There is a lot of rewriting that I must go through if I want to optimize it enough for it to be useful to me again. I started work on it before I started learning Smarty templating and how useful Smarty’s cache features can be. It was before I saw Snap, the primary source for the automated screenshots, pulled the plug on a service. It was before I realised that I should work on things that I really believe in and can grow into something useful to it’s users instead of forcing content-based sites down users like I’ve done in the past.

Waiting on a project and luckily coming up on the previously mentioned news piece regarding Snap and gaining more knowledge has allowed an actual future for the project. I could’ve walked in blindly, continued what I’ve been doing in the past, and run into too many problems that might have caused my exit.

Whether or not I actually pursue TagItFunny (the name is going to get a definite change) is for the future to decide.