It’s been busy times here at Iridesco. We’re working on a slew of projects and all the while giving lots of love to our products. Despite all that working, I’ve been excited lately. There’s been a lot of great content floating around the web and it just fuels the development of our ideas and products. Here’s a brief run-down of what’s been inspirational:

1. Video of Skinnycorp the founders at CommunityNext - These guys are not just funny on stage, they look like they have genuine fun while working on things they enjoy. Not just about the money (though they do very well), their business revolves around creating great culture and customer relationships. If that video wasn’t enough for you, 37Signals just posted a Fireside chat with Skinnycorp and ConnectedVentures/Vimeo (a great company doing cool stuff here in NYC).
2. Founders at Work - This book contains stories of mishaps and successes for companies you may have heard of before (Paypal, HotOrNot, Viaweb, Fogcreek, and others). The interviews are for the most part insightful and engaging to read–particularly if you are familiar with these companies today. Highly recommended.
3. Pipes - This latest experiment from Yahoo! is doing something we’ve been talking about implementing for SuprGlu. It’s a flexible RSS aggregator / mash-up creator that’s got a lot of possibilities. I was able to create a blended feed of my various generated content in no time (kind of like connecting circuits), and having a large company like Yahoo! take on the taxing problem of crawling the web allows its users to focus on coming up with value with the provided functionality. I see lots of potential here.