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A Thought on My 29th Birthday
This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease. - Robert F. Kennedy Last year I... -
Zuck’s Sweatshirt
Mark Zuckerberg goes on TV to ring the bell in 5 days and the big question is, will he be wearing his Sweatshirt or will he put on a suit jacket? I’m not planning to invest in Facebook, but if I were, I would be hoping he sticks to his... -
Guess I’m Moving to Massachusets
I have spoken before about the potential for, and profitability of, dating sites. Over the weekend I spent a little time fooling around with OKCupid and I came away pretty impressed. I suppose the world may always need Match.coms for simplicity, but OKCupid does something very interesting with questions. They... -
The Way I See the “Talent War” in Pittsburgh
There have been a number of interesting articles in the past few weeks about the “talent war” that tech companies in Pittsburgh are fighting. There was one (actually from last year, but I recently saw a link to it) about Pikimal addressing a shortage of developers by finding strong candidates... -
Zynga’s Hybrid Cloud
There are two things I thought I’d share about the story I read in iWeed this morning about Zynga’s hybrid (internal/Amazon) cloud: In the hype about cloud it’s easily to lose track of just how immature we are so far. The fact that with all the cloud options out there in... -
Amazon, The Cloud Supermarket, and Other Ways to Eat
A couple weeks ago I wrote a post on Amazon’s Toolkit Strategy. I wrestled with whether Amazon should still be considered infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or whether they were providing so many services that it was easier to think of them as Platform as a Service. I ended up... -
Sauerkraut Sunday: The Carb Loading Edition
I decided not to run the Pittsburgh Marathon this year, with all of the fluctuation in my life the last few months I decided it was best to not put that much stress on my body. I was thinking about everyone who made it out though, so I found a... -
Excited About the Pirates
I’m sitting in the airport in New York hoping to ride stand-by on the 2:15 to Pittsburgh because I am STOKED about seeing the Pirates this weekend (I have tickets to the Friday and Saturday games). I haven’t made it to a game since opening weekend and the season has... -
File System For the Cloud
Once in a while something comes along and you’re like CRAP, why didn’t I see that coming. Box.com being the NAS of the web (not just for their apps but for ANYONE’s) is frickin brilliant. Releasing their API isn’t just storage as a service, it’s something more than that. It’s... -
Vivisimo Shows You Don’t Have to Sell Fast
Thanks to the Instagram sale there’s another frenzy of articles and people who want to talk about how VC/Seed funded startups “work”. They want to tell you that startups come up with a good idea, prototype, get funded, create massive growth, and then sell… just like that. This worked for...
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