July 5, 2010
I saw Jeffrey Bussgang at TechCrunch Disrupt in NYC (CiviGuard was a demo pit participant there). He was there to promote and sign his book “Mastering the VC Game”. Before he arrived, I perused through the back cover and found it to be interesting enough to put it on my future reading list mentally. However, [...]
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April 6, 2010
Sorry everyone – absenteeism in the extreme here over the last few months. Good reasons for it though – things have been hectic on the career side of things with all aspects hotting up pretty much together.
The new start-up, CiviGuard, is going well. We had a momentous three weeks, starting with a DHS summit on [...]
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December 23, 2009
Dopplr, Whrrld, FourSquare, SimpleGeo, GeoAPI, Layar – welcome to the burgeoning world of location oriented services.
As I write this, GeoAPI has been acquired by Twitter to offer users the ability to share location with their social network and for customers to get access to a fire-hose of geo-social content that they can mine for a [...]
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November 30, 2009
From Om Malik (GigaOm) – Android Developers are not happy with sales proceeds from the Marketplace. Must be a slow news day because this is unnecessary sensationalism.
Notice to developers: If you REMOTELY expected to be rich beyond your dreams building Android apps in the last 9 months you are senile.
The future is going to be [...]
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October 29, 2009
Today multi-year, multi-million dollar contracts are common-place in the sports and entertainment business. Whether we are talking about Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Celine Dion, Madonna, Michael Schumacher, Sachin Tendulkar, Alex Rodriguez or Dale Earnhardt Jr. – being good at what you do brings good things to you (if you don’t lose the plot).
A seminal moment [...]
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October 25, 2009
Interesting post by Tim O’Reilly on Open Source technology going mainstream in Government with whitehouse.gov leveraging Drupal.
Some important highlights:
Procurement of services by an agency is complex, to put it lightly.
Due to the overhead involved, an Open Source solution isn’t likely to end up much cheaper than a proprietary one.
Like me, he subscribes to the “more [...]
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October 22, 2009
GE debuted their VScan portable ultrasound – check out the video here. Nice unit. But frankly, I saw better ones out there during my summer in the Silicon Valley.
I don’t think a dedicated device is the best route to take. I don’t see why an Android or iPhone cannot run the same software they have, [...]
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October 11, 2009
I like collecting URLs. I have quite a few registered in the hope that one day I use them or someone has a similar need and takes it off my hands at the right price.
URLs with five characters or less are apparently quite prized because they are easy to type and remember.
A few days back [...]
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October 6, 2009
Orderly, a concise schema language for JSON has been released. This is a welcome boost to my favorite data notation format. No more manual validation kluge. Nice work Lloyd!
object {
[...]
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September 13, 2009
Dear Readership:
My apologies for the 10-week or so blogging hiatus. I was attending Singularity University for the inaugural Graduate Studies Program for 9 weeks.
I am a sucker for knowledge. An MBA is the, still attractive, yet conventional option – Singularity University represented the road less taken. A road I am glad I took, a road [...]
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