Tweeku is a twitter writing tool, designed to let you concentrate on writing the best status updates. We hope you’ll check it out!

I had an incredible experience at the first Dallas Startup Weekend this week. Startup Weekends are taking place around the country, and I encourage you to look into it if one is coming near you.

The concept, in a nutshell, is to get together a group of developers, entrepreneurs, marketing people, etc. for an intense weekend of business building. Friday night anyone and everyone pitches ideas. The attendees vote on ideas and divide into teams, then spend the weekend honing and implementing it…and hopefully coming out of the weekend with a new startup business.

I teamed up with John, Matt, Mike, Jake and Joey on John’s idea for a social recipe website that could learn about your personal tastes.

The result was PickyPlates. From concept to up and running site in about 20 hours working time. Still lots to be done, but the team was awesome and plans to keep moving forward with the project. We also came home with first prize in the weekend competition — which was a really exciting end to a great weekend.

Congrats and best of luck to the other great business started over the weekend, including: OpenWishLists.org, 1FTPClient, MeetupSports, ActivePub, DriveLegal 24/8, and 1-800-LawGuns.

Search Engine Optimization is not a legitimate form of marketing. It should not be undertaken by people with brains or souls. If someone charges you for SEO, you have been conned

I’m happy to announce that our first iPhone application, BoxFinder has arrived at the App Store. BoxFinder is a tool for the Atlas Quest letterboxing community, making it easier to use the location awareness of your iPhone to locate letterboxes. Check it out!

But before you decide you need a new website, you should figure out why. Seth Godin has an excellent primer on Things to Ask Before You Redo Your Website.

I’m definitely on a maker’s schedule.

This is a space that much needs attention, I think, after the failure of some of the prior print magazines for programmers. Great job!

blilt.us is designed for integration with other applications. We are working on completing and documenting the API and will provide more sample code in the future. Let us know if there’s anything you are looking for in a URL shortening service. We’re eager to hear ideas.

The purpose of the site is to tell a story or to generate some sort of action. And if the user notices the site, not the story, you’ve lost.

If you are looking to improve the impact of your web presence, you should be asking yourself what story you want to tell, not how much flash can I add, or how much lavish detailing I can apply.