Especially early on, starting a company is about addressing one overarching concern that, if solved, will totally make everything so much easier. When I first started thinking about SpotDJ, I had a job. Being a loyal employee not looking to get sued, […]
I’m putting this first because I know you’re busy starting a company and I can save you a lot of time by telling you to skip all the other tips and listen to this one. Or don’t. That’s the whole point. When […]
When I started a company a year and a half ago, I also started a list of things that would’ve been useful to have known ahead of time. My plan was to publish the list several years later in hindsight, but now […]
Many of the prominent blog posts and press pieces about OpenSocial have touted its use of open standards a key benefit for developers. Focusing on HTML and JavaScript is not only inaccurate, but it actually makes the platform less attractive for developers. […]
When we wrote the User Profile feature for SpotDJ, we decided we wanted something a little more interesting than just filling in your username and password. We came up with the idea of presenting the user with three questions, randomly selected from […]
Turns out that the method of integrating online chat and television that I co-invented as a Microsoft intern was approved late last year and nobody told me: http://www.google.com/patents?id=F0R9AAAAEBAJ&dq=kleper&ie=ISO-8859-1 My favorite part of the patent application (which I didn’t write) was the sample […]
Back in January, when I expressed my frustration over the lack of a Third Party API for the iPhone, everyone seemed certain that Apple had confirmed this as a fact. Now everyone seems certain that the iPhone runs a full version of […]
Okay, so maybe it’s only the second most “Newly Popular” pirated book, but still — we’ve got more seeds and leechers than the first episode of “The Tudors.” And we’re trouncing other books in our category — Suck it, Professional ASP NET […]
I was recently offered the opportunity (and a Starbucks gift card) to evaluate Palore, a service that’s apparently huge in Israel and is in the process of adding support for the US. At a high level, Palore is a browser extension (currently […]
In 1995, when I was a freshman at Stanford, a former co-worker of my mom’s invited me to brunch with some of his friends. I was eager to meet some people from the Silicon Valley tech world and happily biked over to […]