Patents Continue to be Silly
Jonathan Schwartz – the CEO of Sun – has a superb blog post up today titled Thank You, Network Appliance. Apparently Network Appliance has sued Sun for patent infringement and
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The Constipation of Scale
Every successful startup goes through it. I got a note from a friend yesterday in response to an email I sent him about one of his startups where I said
The Montana Future
In 1991, a group of ten people (including me and Amy) gathered at a resort in Stowe, VT to have a Chautauqua to discuss the future. We had a magnificent weekend
Fun With Friends
After waking up from a nap dreaming about Social Graphs (ok – not really) I realized I’d never tried to integrate my Outlook contacts into “the other stuff I use
Social Graph – The Next Future Overused Phrase
Get ready to start hearing “Social Graph” as frequently as you hear “Web 2.0.” The construct of the Social Graph (and its friend – Social Network) has been around f
Resources for Widget Performance
I received a couple of comments my last post titled The Unbearable Slowness of Javascript Widgets including one from Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress and the founder of Au
The Unbearable Slowness of Javascript Widgets
Alex Iskold – the giant brain behind AdaptiveBlue – has a great post up today titled How JavaScript is Slowing Down the Web (And What To Do About It). While
Protecting Your PHP Source Code
Time for a Sunday morning nerd out. If you are a programmer or entrepreneur in a company that develops in PHP watch in horror as the main Facebook source code
SCO Finally Gets Put In Their Place By A Judge
I was delighted to wake up this morning. I’m delighted to wake up every morning, but this is a particular beautiful sunny Saturday in Boulder, Colorado which means I can
One Stomp Forward, One Stomp Back
I predict that 2008 will be the year that the software patent situation finally goes critical and the nuclear meltdown in the reactor begins. Two things happened today that are