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Gnip is one (leap) year old!

Yesterday (leap day!) was Gnip's four year anniversary. It's been a wild ride to be sure. It took awhile to find the groove (Bijan Sabet coincidentally just posted on this topic [http://bijansabet.com/post/18548961644/patience-persistence]), but patience and persistence paid off. Here's

David & Goliath; Internet Tech Sector & U.S. Government

By way of the Silicon Flatirons "The Digital Broadband Migration: The Challenges of Internet Law and Governance" [http://www.silicon-flatirons.org/events.php?id=1003] conference last night, I somehow found myself at a reception with a few dozen brains much bigger than mine; thank you Dean Phil

Modern Software Labor Challenges: The Perfect Storm

Many moons ago when I graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in "Computer Science Applications" (the University's attempt at hybridizing Computer Science with a School of Arts theme (Political Science for me); think "double major"), two things were obvious: software engineers

Lijit Acquisition

Wow. What an illustration of how sticking with a company/team through thick and thin can yield big dividends. With a little time, amazing things can happen. I'm overjoyed with what the Lijit [http://www.lijit.com/] team pulled off. After four years (at least) of various strategies,

Minimally Viable Products & Native vs. Web Apps

This is unfortunately two blog posts poorly mashed into one. I couldn't reign in my stream of consciousness into something more coherent. I usually don't publish under that circumstance, but I want to get these thoughts out so I can creatively move forward with the thoughts.

Greplin: I so want this to work

This is a quick post to the Greplin [https://www.greplin.com/] crew. If you follow this recipe you will win and win big. This is a huge problem plaguing all of us. Go forth and conquer. While I don't necessarily like it, the fact is that search

Software & Remodels

A couple of weeks ago we moved back into our home after a six month renovation. Unlike 90% of renovations ours was very close to on budget as well as on time. How did we do it? Now that it's over, I realize we built it similarly to

Sticky Logins

One of my biggest issues with the web today is authentication. OAuth and OpenID aside for a moment (both of which are cool), the iPhone app model has largely gotten authentication right. I'd like to see user expectations around mobile app login, carry through to desktop browsing as

Feelin' It In Boulder

In the "counting my blessings" category, I've been trying to build a blog post about things I'm super excited about these days. That's resulted in delay, so instead I'm just going to do a random splattering of bullets. * Mountains -

Luncheon with Jared Polis

Luncheon with Jared Polis

Photo by Todd Vernon [http://yfrog.com/g0g2rqxj]I was lucky enough, and honored, to be a part of a luncheon in Boulder today with Congressman Jared Polis, and a great sample of Boulder's startup community. There were roughly 30 of us around a table at the staple

TimeBridge and Behavioral Change

Users rarely, if ever, change behavior. It takes unprecedented genius or beneficial workflow changes to get us to change our ways. We're lazy... bottom line. A service called TimeBridge/meetwith.me [https://app.timebridge.com/lp/meetwithme] changed my behavior. I use it religiously now. What's

Fast & Slow

Pondering the meaning of life while bombing down Poorman [http://connect.garmin.com/activity/26459956] the other day on my mountain bike, I realized the two things that have had the most impact on my two my favorite activities (coding and mtn. biking) serve two radically different purposes. Disk Brakes.

Chaning My Computer Interface

For a few weeks now I've been using fingerprint readers to login to my computers. Mostly an experiment to see how good, or bad, the technology has become over the past several years, it's turned into my preference for logging into my machines and accessing sensitive

The Mess of Carriers, Handsets, App Stores & Consumers.

The Mess of Carriers, Handsets, App Stores & Consumers.

I remember the day my mother brought home her first cell phone. It was the true brick (pictured here), and looking back it was the result of the carriers of the day defining the handset as a product that would run on their network, and having someone build it for

Estimating Code (Stories)

Estimating Code (Stories)

I've worked in several "Agile" development teams over the years; from developer, to manager. Estimates are always one of the challenging things around software; both development's actual estimates (making them is very hard), as well as management's interpretation/understanding of them. Some

By default...

Software is all about default behavior. From pure infrastructure plays (e.g. Gnip [http://gnipcentral.com]) to general population consumer facing applications (e.g. Apple products). Whether you want to call your software's configuration, "preferences," "settings," "configuration," or "config," they&

"If there's gold in them hills..."

"If there's gold in them hills, people will find it." I'm sure that quote's been used many times relative to software applications, but it keeps coming up in my life so I thought I'd take a moment to blog about

Calendar Dancing

Every few months I sit down and try to mash all my calendars together, in hopes that the various calendar services I use have fixed all their bugs. You'd think that in today's world of well known ical formats, ics subscriptions, and new browser protocol handlers,