The Zeitgeist

Life’s weird,  it puts you in odd, uncomfortable situations and occasionally out of the chaos potentially wonderful opportunities materialize when you least expect them.  For example:
This week I am winding down a consulting gig that got cut short by the client’s management who decided 2 weeks ago to cut the budget on the project I [...]

Tags: Angel Funding, anticipation, Apple, Business, consulting, crossroads, iFund, ipad, iPhone, iPhoneOS, jobs, Life, opportunity, Startups, unexpected, VC, Venture Capital

Maybe one day I’ll be cool enough to get a TED invite and i can see stuff like Oblong’s demo of their g-speak interface.
As eye candy this is wickedly cool, and, naturally since its developed by the guy who did the design of the imagined interface for Speilberg’s Minority Report, everyone thinks it’s [...]

Tags: future of computing, GUI, oblong, TED

Iiiinteresting. Twitter seems to, despite previous assurances from co-founder Biz Stone that it wouldn’t, be going after app developers using “Tweet” as part of their app names.
Now, if Twitter actually had a trademark on the term “tweet” it would be one thing, but to be sending takedown notices for something you don’t own [...]

Tags: dmca, lawyers, Patents, penalty, trademarks, twitter, USPTO

Well, the cats been out of the bag for a few weeks, but I completely forgot to blog here about one of my new projects: MacIndie.
MacIndie is a resource for Indie Mac andiPhone developers: our goal is to provide Indie Devs with a lot of resources and info ranging from a catalog of free and [...]

Tags: development, indie dev, indie developer, indie deveopment, iPhone, macindie, macindie.com, macosx

Fusion IO showed off their new storage product at the Fall DEMO show last week (I love DEMO, my former startup DropZone Networks was DEMOMobile’s featured Wireless startup in 2004) and they blew everyone away with their new card which when it ships will put an amazing 640 GIGABYTES of NAND Flash memory onto a [...]

Tags: DEMO, DropZone Networks, FusionIO, Storage

Apparently a 6th grader, Arjun Mehta,  in San Jose landed $6.5M in a series A round round led by Easton Capital, Menlo Ventures, STIC and Novel TMT Ventures for his idea of an in-game commerce system called Playspan.
My first reaction is a combination of “Wow… smart kid!” and “Holy crap.. we ARE [...]

I know that “Internet Time” is supposed to be a hyper compressed version of “real time,” but who knew it applied to “crashing and burning”..?  Apparently not the folks over at Quechup, because they have burned every possible smidgen of goodwill that people could have had towards them; all in about a week. [...]

 I hope the Evan, Biz & Co over at twitter can roll back to their previous version … they announced a 2.5hr downtime at 12Midnight PT last night…and have been mostly down ever since.  Ouch.
For anyone even thinking of picking on them, tread lightly.  Running a startup, especially a popular one, is really, really tricky… [...]

This FaceBook Suit is utterly hilarious. In a nutshell, for those haven’t heard about it, or refuse to click on NYT links, Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of FaceBook is being sued by former Harvard classmates who claim that he “stole the idea” from them. A fourth classmate (Aaron Greenspan ) purports to have [...]

We were on vacation for a couple of weeks in the San Francisco bay area, and I, along with ~10 others, got courtesy of HP and led by HP’s Archivist Anna Mancini, a private tour during BarCampBlock of the Birthplace of Silicon Valley at the garage where Hewlett and Packard started HP in [...]