Say hello to the Lehigh Valley Tech audience
Tonight I had the privilege of presenting Barley during the Lehigh Valley Tech Meetup. I thought I'd take a photo of the audience. Are you in the photo? Tweet about it!
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Start-ups in Ireland face similar challenges to those in the rural US
Last year I linked to Inc.'s article about Dublin's apparent growth in successful start-ups, investments, and the general tech scene. In contrast to that post is Patrick Collison's post from October of last year showing the…
Matthew Smith on faking it until you make it
Matthew Smith in his interview with the always excellent The Great Discontent: Then people started asking me to build more things, like customer databases. I would nod in agreement as if to say, “Of…
Jason Schuller sees it too
Jason Schuller on Promising Solutions for Simple Websites and Blogs about our just-launched first product Barley: Barley is already beautifully branded and is dubbing itself as a “this-generation content editor” which I have actually bought…
Visiting the Keystone Observatory 2013
I try to get to the Keystone Observatory at least twice a year in the spring. It is only a few miles from our home and a great way to think about all things extraterrestrial. Last…
Early stage investors should pay their own way in most cases
Bijan Sibet: For as long as I can recall, both as an entrepreneur and a vc, startups have been asked to pay their investors legal expenses related to their investment. Whether the…
Fred Beste on Ben Franklin TechVentures
Fred Beste, on Ben Franklin TechVentures in Bethlehem, puts it best: I am not aware of any facility that matches this place. I’ve stated it this way: This is the building that every…
Jake Lodwick on PandoDaily – \”An acquisition is always a failure\”
Jake Lodwick, co-founder of College Humor and Vimeo, writes about how poorly the acquisition process can go and how it seems to happen over and over and over in our industry in An…
Jim Ray on Twitter #music
Jim Ray reviews Twitter #music: Tellingly, you can’t get to a musician’s tweets from within the app to decide whether you want to follow them based on the content of their stream,…
An App you install from the web
From Dark Sky Company, the guys behind the relatively new web app Forecast, comes a great post about how web applications can perform as well as native applications: Granted, some apps must be native: OpenGL-based…
Medium and Barley are just the beginning
I just spent a few minutes playing around with Medium, a new "system for reading and writing", created by the makers behind great services like Blogger and Twitter. It was extremely validating to…
Why Coworking is growing in Australia by Alex Hillman
Alex Hillman is one lucky guy: I’ve been to Australia twice in the last 12 months. Three different cities. All for coworking related activities. Sounds like great fun but he also has…
Gary Vaynerchuk’s 19 people you should follow on Twitter list
My good friend Gary Vaynerchuk chose your's truly as #4 of 19 people he thinks should be followed on Twitter. He says of me: his new project is something that I think…
Chad Dickerson’s advice to inside sales people
Chad Dickerson, like many of us that run companies, gets a lot of solicitation via email. Some good. Most bad. He decided to do something useful with his response to one: I…
Flickr for iOS now uploads photos \”faster\”
Me, in December of last year: Now they need to take a queue from Instagram (and many other modern mobile apps) and start uploading the photo immediately, rather than waiting for the…
Plain, Plain Space, Barley
As you may have guessed from the lack of posts, I'm busy. After leaving Viddler and taking some time to get things in order; I'm busy building Plain, Plain Space, and our…
Dear Apple, Please don’t make a watch.
Nick Bilton of The New York Times: In its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Apple is experimenting with wristwatch-like devices made of curved glass, according to people familiar with the company’s explorations, who…
How much should I raise?
There is no shortage of opinions on this topic but Wayne Barz takes a pretty good approach to answering, or not answering, the question How much should I raise? I certainly can’t…
On Foursquare’s usefulness
Dan Frommer recently said this about Foursquare's usefulness: The broad, public perception of Foursquare still seems to be that it’s all about being the mayor of some bar, or something useless like…
But, why did you unfollow me?
Please do not be alarmed if you've noticed that I have unfollowed you on the Twitter. It isn't because I do not like you. It is, again, because I'm refactoring the way…
Remembering Aaron Swartz – \”You should blog that.\”
Tantek remembers Aaron's encouragement to blog ideas and solutions: But the larger point here is that he turned a rant into a positive action. He challenged me to do something about it,…
GitHub hits 3 million users
In a world where hitting 10, 50, and 100 million users seems to be the goal it is nice to see that a service can be a massive success at a fraction…
Andrew Kim goes to MSFT
Remember Andrew Kim? The guy that rebranded Microsoft for free. Well, now he's going to work there. I can’t talk about the details of how things fell into place but the choice…
NASA estimates 1 in 6 stars have Earth-sized planets orbiting them
That is a lot of Earth-sized planets. A lot. For instance, look at what NASA estimates for our galaxy alone: Since the Milky Way has about 100 billion stars, there are at…
The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s \”Crime\”
Alex Stamos: I was the expert witness on Aaron’s side of US vs Swartz, engaged byhis attorneyslast year to help prepare a defense for his April trial. It is an interesting read.
The wisdom of Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz, who tragically committed suicide yesterday, in an interview from 2007 when he was just 20 years old: If you talk to any woman in the tech community, it won’t be…
Stop worrying about being copied
Nathan Kontny: "If my idea isn’t worth copying then it’s not a very good idea. If my product or business can’t handle a new competitor, then it’s not a very good product."…
Your life’s work
DHH: If you’re not committed to your life’s work in a company and with people you could endure for decades, are you making progress on it? Yes. I am.
Ubuntu for phones
Canonical is calling this Ubuntu for phones but even in their own presentation they mention it will run on tablet devices. Yesterday I said, on Twitter, that I was happy to see…
Organizational complexity
Dalton Caldwell, co-founder of App.net, does some thinking about organizational complexity. He contrasts how a simple demonstration of Artificial Intelligence does not necessarily mean that model is scalable to do more complex…