March 2010
5 posts
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The importance of investor signaling in venture... →
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How to quadruple your productivity with an army of... →
How much the mythical man month applies to your project depends on how you structure your team, architecture, and communications.
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"I feel for Google – Steve Jobs threatened to sue... →
Jonathan Schwartz details the games people play in technology IP lawsuits as it relates to the recent Apple suit over Android. A great read on the topic with some real inside perspective.
I had not read Jonathan’s blog since he left Sun and retitled it “What I couldn’t say…”. It is a compelling read, and I’m glad he’s able to provide an inside perspective...
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"To the best of our knowledge this work is the... →
A very compelling analysis of Twitter connection and information diffusion data. Worth a skim. One interesting discovery: “…any retweeted tweet is to reach an average of 1,000 users no matter what the number of followers is of the original tweet. “
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More diligence and less capital coming for... →
February 2010
8 posts
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"...what has all this... →
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AJAX, or LAJAX?
I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in web site design: flashy ajax-y user interfaces that are actually worse than their full-page-refresh forefathers. The Ajax calls are *synchronous* in nature when they would have been aysnchronous using plain-jane HTML.
Let me call this LAJAX. Lame AJAX, or latent javascript xml communication depending on your politics.
The worst offender of this is forms...
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Excellent post on effective board meetings for... →
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Global Venture Capital (VC) Blog Directory –... →
This is a great list of some great VC blogs. They’re earning their uniques, imo…
caterpillarcowboy:
Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures, A VC (100,279)
Guy Kawasaki, Garage Technology Ventures, How To Change The World (82,838)
Paul Graham, YCombinator, Essays (71,924)
Brad Feld, Foundry Group, Feld Thoughts (45,633)
Mark Suster, GRP Partners, Both Sides of the Table (39,389)
Bill...
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OH in the mission: "What I said out loud was not...
OH: “What I said out loud was not what I said in my head.” It never is ;)
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Just posted a quick note on Apple's local...
http://spinnaker.tumblr.com/post/372643025/is-apple-launching-a-local-advertising-network-for
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Using PHP? Take a look at Facebook's HipHop for...
“HipHop for PHP isn’t technically a compiler itself. Rather it is a source code transformer. HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it. HipHop executes the source code in a semantically equivalent manner and sacrifices some rarely used features — such as eval() — in exchange for improved performance. HipHop...
January 2010
4 posts
First Round Capital launches exchange for their...
In what appears to be part of a trend, noted early stage investment firm first round capital has launched an exchange for it’s portfolio companies to trade equity.
“This exchange fund was created to allow First Round Capital entrepreneurs to contribute a small piece of the stock they own in their company — and share in the upside of all the other companies.”
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Apple iPad
So… what’s it designed to do?
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad/
More on revenue sources and news content
This is a follow up on this post about Newsday’s 35 paid subscribers 3 months after launching a pay-wall over their news content:
http://www.observer.com/2010/media/after-three-months-only-35-subscriptions-newsdays-web-site
It’s critical for publishers to match their revenue sources to their audience and product (content, or content aggregation). It’s very possible to sell...
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“Time to make a plan? RT @rww: Paid Content Won’t Work for Everybody:...”
– Robadler
December 2009
4 posts
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More on software patents: PTO changes standard of...
“In its fourth precedential opinion of 2009, an enlarged panel of the BPAI has created a new test for judging whether a claimed machine (or article of manufacture) that takes advantage of a mathematical algorithm falls within the patentable subject matter requirements of 35 U.S.C. Section 101. The two-part test parallels the Federal Circuit’sBilski decision that focused on the patentablility...
Twitter revenue: two points and a question
Twitter has proven a bunch of people wrong by generating significant revenue from the service through data licensing deals with Google and Microsoft.
Twitter Inc., the San Francisco company that has popularized short but free texts known as tweets, is reportedly set to turn a small profit this year thanks to $25 million in Internet search deals signed with Google and Microsoft.
Read more:...
“Score Two Wins Against Software Patents http://goo.gl/fb/muTm”
– bfeld