July 31, 2007
Obviousness is Obvious
In my never ending – often Don Quixote like – quest against absurd software patents, I must pause in the midst of my day and give a standing ovation to ...
San Francisco Marathon – A Personal Worst
Runners like to talk about their “personal best” times. I ran the San Francisco Marathon on Sunday July 29 and turned in my personal worst – 5:14:20.
Now – before you ...
Open Source Hardware
I’ve loved the phrase “open source hardware” from the first time I heard it from Peter Semmelhack, the CEO of Bug Labs. It made me think “software” which is exactly ...
July 30, 2007
A Significant Interview
My friends Larry and Pat Nelson of w3w3.com interviewed me last week. The word of the interview appears to be “significant.” Feel free to play bozo bingo and count the ...
July 26, 2007
A State Between Broke and Funded
Andrew Hyde – a new friend and the creator of Startup Weekend – has a great post up today that all entrepreneurs should read for that warm moment of identification ...
Facebook Email Sucks
I’m an email junkie going back as far as I can remember. It’s by far my favorite way to communicate.
I’m utterly and completely baffled that Facebook email (ok – ...
July 25, 2007
Fat Credits
On the heals of G.E. Unveil[ing] Credit Card Aimed at Relieving Carbon Footprints I’m looking for someone that is willing to sell me some fat credits.
I’m running the San Francisco ...
July 24, 2007
NewsGator for iPhone
Got an iPhone? Want to read your feeds on it? Try the new NewsGator iPhone reader.
As one of my partners who uses NetNewsWire said, “wow!” (ok – he said ...
SharePoint and RSS
I love things that are like chocolate and peanut butter. Microsoft has embedded RSS throughout SharePoint – NewsGator’s new Social Sites product (built on top of NewsGator Enterprise Server) makes it tastier than ...
July 23, 2007
Books: Cat’s Cradle
My march through Vonnegut continues. Cat’s Cradle was the best yet – as predicted by everyone that saw me carrying it around the past few days. Ice-Nine was not a new ...
Rally Races To The Top of the Colorado Growth List
My buddies at Rally Software were just named the fastest growing company in Colorado in the “Small Company” category by the Denver Business Journal. Last month they were named the ...
Who Says Nerds Can’t Dance?
Todd Vernon – the CEO of Lijit – went on vacation last week. While searches continued to happen, the gang from Villij got together with the some of the Lijit ...
What Was Your First Computer?
Last Thursday when I was in New York I swung by Steve Rubel’s office and hung out with him for an hour. We caught up on a bunch of stuff but ...
Google Apps Active Directory and LDAP Sync
We had a TechStars picnic at my house yesterday afternoon. Given that there were 30+ software nerds hanging around, a little teeny tiny bit of the conversation was about computer ...
Patent Reform Progress – Baby Steps
I am anti-software patents. Lest you think I’m simply a reactionary, I’ve been thinking about this since 1987 when I started studying sources of innovation under Eric von Hippel at ...