And then, suddenly, it works

2012-02-11

The other day a friend was demoing a new app he was working on. My first reaction was: “Yeah, yeah. This is nicely executed version one of…

Bedrock programming

2012-02-06

“Bedrock programming” is a phrase used to describe a style of programming that favors building code from the ground up versus reusing…

Who should learn to program?

2012-01-31

Recently, there’s been a lot of talk in the tech world and beyond about getting more people to learn computer programming. I think this is a…

Chris Sacca on the implied user contract

2012-01-23

Chris Sacca nicely summarized today’s FB vs Google vs Twitter controversy: It comes down to what each company has promised its users…

What’s not evil: ranking content fairly *and* letting public content get indexed

2012-01-23

Please see update at bottom Most websites spend massive amounts of time and money to get any of their pages index and ranked by Google’s…

Revenue vs margin

2012-01-22

Three years ago, Fred Wilson wrote a great blog post called When Talking About Business Models, Remember that Profits Equal Revenues Minus…