The Zeitgeist

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 [...]

I have often wondered how a lot of my friends who run startups manage to do it. They code all day and night, and somehow manage to hang out at parties and go to conferences. Part of it comes, for many of them, from being single. It’s a lot harder [...]

Man, I am tool old to be pulling 18 hr days all week, but here I am. Again. Coding away. What I am coding will have to remain a mystery for a little while, but what I am coding in is pretty cool. Its a really powerful Web App framework called RIFE, [...]