Don Dodge from Microsoft’s emerging business team summarizes the Patent Reform Act of 2007 that just passed the House Judiciary Committee. Damages are limited to the value added over existing technology. This bill would require the courts to look at the “free market” value of the patent if it were licensed in an “arms length” […]
July 23, 2007 | Startups | No comments
Stats since reviving my dusty old blog last week. Still no SE traffic – in fact I’m still getting traffic for pages from my old blog that don’t exist anymore. What really surprises me is the avg time on site. But I guess that’s how long I spend on most blogs – I like to […]
July 22, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
This little guy quietly spun this masterpiece while I was snoozing on the couch below him last night – and he got me thinking about The Web and what the word really means these days. Perhaps I’ve been in the entrepreneurial game for too long now, but it’s beginning to mean: Design User interfaces SEO […]
July 22, 2007 | Randomness, Technology | No comments
I’m not a copyright nazi and I’m all for sharing. But it really pisses me off when I see people plagiarize my blog entries verbatim without even giving a link back to the source and without adding so much as a single sentence of their own content. Add a couple of sentences of your own […]
July 22, 2007 | Rants | No comments
I just put my wallet through the wash. AAAAAAAH!!
July 21, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
UPDATE: Changed the title after realizing I’m referring to a niche within startups. John Cook, one of my favorite Seattleites, has a post on his blog about yet another home office no money startup that got bought out for a few million. There is a growing realization that getting early funding if you’re a developer […]
July 21, 2007 | Startups | No comments
A giant spinning sequoia caught in a tornado that throws off dollar bills instead of pine needles. [Apologies if you thought this was going to be a treatise on creating passive income.] ps: Can someone draw this for me?
July 21, 2007 | Startups | No comments
Dustin Staiger has a list of 10 signs that you’re shooting down good ideas in your organization. This reminds me of someone I worked with a while back. Here are my personal favorite signs from Dustin’s list of 10: 7. Listing the top 10 ideas from your department this year, half or more are your […]
July 20, 2007 | Startups | No comments
…is to get it so very wrong. Via Marc Andreesen’s blog: The European Union on Thursday authorized Germany to give $165 million for research on Internet search-engine technologies that could someday challenge U.S. search giant Google Inc. Some politician is costing the EU $165 Megs to prove to the world he’s hip with the search […]
July 20, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
A while back, Jobster CTO Phil Bogle blogged about some of the tricks I’ve used to do fast location queries in SQL. The link to my SQL query to generate the zip lookup table for radius searches is now dead (a cybersquatter stole my domain name and I don’t want to discuss it!). So here’s […]
July 20, 2007 | Code | No comments