A historical collection of our writing.
This past weekend was the first annual Ecommerce Hack Day in New York organized by Dwolla and Etsy with support from many other companies. I was delighted to be a judge as there were a lot of talented folks working hard on building interesting ecommerce hacks. Here are some of my takeaways from the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Video has proven to be a very powerful way of connecting with people online. I think no site demonstrates this more than Kickstarter. For instance, Allison Weiss raising money to make a new record (one of the very early projects), shows just how compelling a video can be. Covestor exists in the […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Only a short post today as I was spending most of the morning on the phone with some PR folks in Germany talking about the German National Computer Science Competition (page in German). I participated in and was one of five national winners in one of the early years this competition was held. They […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Much has been written about how idiotic it is for the NBC to tape delay Olympic broadcasts when everybody already knows via Twitter what the outcome of an event has been. At the current Olympics we are witnessing like never before that the Internet is global and realtime whereas TV historically has […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In the last two posts we looked at control structures as part of the programming series here on Tech Tuesdays. We saw that loops let us repeat a sequence of instructions, which is one way of having to avoid writing the same code over and over again. Today we will learn about another and more […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I have written about cybersecurity legislation, covering the House bill called CISPA. This week it’s the Senate’s turn with the Cyber Security Act of 2012 (PDF). One thing that always jumps out at me when looking at these bills is that they get away without a problem statement and without […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
