links for 2008-08-20

Jawed Karim is investing, of course. The 29-year-old tells his hometown paper, the Minneapolis-St. Paul Tribune, about his venture fund, Youniversity Ventures, which seeks out first-time entrepreneurs and students, offering $50,000 to $300,000 in seed funds. He's also will to offer his advice, gratis. "We will coach people along if it falls into our area of interest, even though we don't make an investment," he says.

The hardest part of design … is keeping features out.
Donald Norman

Depressing Twitter's internal value is a concept from British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who noted in 1992 that humans—like other primates—can handle only 150 relationships. If we try to add many more connections, our little brains get overloaded.

ICONIX Process is an open, free-to-use object modeling process. It's minimal, use case driven, and – when combined with the practices described here – extremely agile.

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