It’s not common practice for me to write reviews of other companies.  But, this is one of those special occasions.
As a software engineer and business person, it’s my prerogative and duty to make software/web sites/etc for other people.  The best way to make software for other people, however, is to make software for myself.  This […]

If you thought Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and John Carmack were onto something, think again. ‘Zillionaire’ Robert T. Bigelow is fulfilling his childhood dream of putting people into space by building the first privately-owned space station. And he already has orbiting prototypes full of live critters to prove the concept: http://www.wired.com/science/space/magazine/15-11/ff_spacehotel. […]

Powerset is perhaps one of the most talked-about up-and-coming search engines. They promise to give you the holy grail of search- a search engine that actually understands what you want and gives you the answer right there on the results page. They are led by smart, successful founders, and have hired top engineers.
But […]

Hey guys. I’m Siqi, and I’m your guest blogger today. Alex Notov invited me to write a little about the Facebook platform. Since I have over zero users in the three weeks since I launched my own app, I am eminently qualified to pontificate on why you too need to have a Facebook app this […]

So, as of my latest perusal of facebook’s usage statistics (as per Zuckerberg’s f8 speech), the number of daily returning users is “24 million and growing, 24 million and growing…” < If you read that last phrase out loud, it may have sounded like something Zuckerberg said in his f8 speech. Indeed, it may […]

The event of tonight was the Silicon Valley Newtech Meetup, organized by Vincent Lauria. The first hour or so was dedicated to presentations, as they always are. Nothing too new… I’m beginning to get tired of seeing Lucky Oliver everywhere I go. I’m yet to step foot on their website! But […]

Picture of our facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg’s Keynote Speech at the Facebook F8 Developer Conference was pretty bad, as all of my readers have agreed. He positioned Facebook as a world changing platform for entrepreneurship and developers. He clearly wants to see people build applications off Facebook as if it were an […]

As a startup founder, I’ve considered using both Elance and Odesk in my early beginnings. I come from a business and marketing background, so somebody’s got to be the programmer. I didn’t have a co-founder at the time and needed something super cheap, so I saw what Elance and Odesk had to offer.
Before […]