It has been a little over a year since I created a new venture with Nicholas Holland. We created Side Hobby LLC after Nashville’s first Startup Weekend to pursue our project gpsAssassin.
When we first started out we were (foolishly, but commonly) optimistic that it would just be a little 3 month side hobby (thus the [...]
I have not been using an RSS reader for months. Lately I have been trying to look at my NetNewsWire again, but there are a couple of things that frustrate me.
The first is that it is not easy for me to share items. I used to be able to clip them, but now that NNW [...]
I just read an article in the Nashville Business Journal about some ambiguous program filed under the keyword “entrepreneur”1. Read Chamber wants to lure tech start-ups to see what I mean.
First off, I can’t even tell what the article is about. Is it about some Chamber initiative? Is it about the Accelerator2 program at [...]
It looks like I am going to get to participate in some pretty neat events in Nashville over the next month.
Technology Nashville – Thursday May 21st
I am going to be participating on a panel discussion on "Dashboards, Widgets and Other Components to Track Performance". The discussion will be moderated by Bayard Saunders and will also [...]
I went to the Nashville Technology Council’s roundtable on Venture Capital tonight. (see Venture Capitalists Reveal: How to secure Funding).
Courtney Ross did a great job moderating a conversation with Rachael Qualls (Angel Capital Group), Vic Gatto (Solidus Company), and Sid Chambless (Nashville Capital Network). It was a good overview of how venture and angel funding [...]
The internet is changing. thanks to the popularity of destinations like Twitter, FriendFeed, and Facebook. The problem is that a significant amount of communication is taking place on these sites. This is resulting away from web standards for the most valuable aspects of our interaction online. This sucks.
Twitter is essentially creating their own “standard”, and [...]
There are increasing rumors that the next generation of Apple laptops are going to make more use of Multi-Touch. I think it is only reasonable to speculate that it be called the MacBook Touch. This post is about what I hope this device will be. My historical record on guessing the next Apple hardware is [...]
It seems like there are a blue million technology groups in Nashville these days and I love it. There is also lots of talk today about all of the different pieces and how they fit together. This is a post about how I see it. It is inspired by / in response to this post [...]
Oracle has released what looks to be a really great app for the iPhone.
From the iTunes App Store:
Oracle Business Indicators is a business intelligence application that provides real-time, secure access to business performance information on the mobile device.
- Requires the licensing of Oracle Business intelligence Suite, … [and a bunch of other Oracle products] … [...]
As you are probably aware I have been working on a big application that I hope to release sometime this year. It is called statzen and it provides a new way for publishers to keep track of what people are reading. I have been making some major breakthroughs on statzen lately. Yesterday I added APML [...]
