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I was fortunate enough to attend Startup School 2010 yesterday. #sus2010 Startup School is a day of learning for anyone with either early onset or chronic entrepreneurialism. I suffer chronically, but have it under control. I was impressed with all the youthful, intelligent energy at the event. Unfortunately not a very diverse crowd, it was the usual male imbalance. C'mon guys....lets work on this. The speaker lineup was pret...

I have been very fortunate in the past months to have attended some amazing tech community gatherings, featuring some very interesting minds of our time, including Elon Musk, Andy Bechtolsheim, and Mark Zuckerberg. One common theme I noticed from listening to thought ...

I have talked in the past about doing one thing and doing it well in the technology space. A mistake I've made many times, and other developers make is trying to do too much when building applications. You build a system and try to please everyone, by including lots of features, tools, integrations and supp...

The other day I talked about my brother Michael was looking for a tech job. He's a .NET programmer with a Computer Science degree, and a working currently. I told him I would give him advice on how to stand okinlane-productions2he is looking for. I took a look at his resume, then put it down and Googled his name. I just didn't see what I was looking to demonstrate that he was active and p...

Change happens. With technology, change seems to be accelerating, or at least the waves of change seem to come more frequently. I feel I've developed a certain rhythm fkinlane-productions2es. Part of this rhythm is a regular evaluation of where I stand, a sort of agile career methodology. I'm in one of those evaluation periods right now. What wave is next...

My little brother Michael is looking for a job in the tech industry. He asked if he could send his resume my way. I said sure. I opened his resume and scanned it as I would any other potential hire. It read: I'm very excited about technology I have computer science degree I worked at my school I worked at Circuit City I work at a small dev shop in my home town. Then I went to Google like I do fo...

Application Programming Interfaces (API) are a necessity in today's fast paced business community. An API can encourage mobile application, web application, and desktop development by your most passionate users, partners and the public. Even with all this value many businesses don't have time or resources to dedicate to developing, marketing and managing an API. Read more →

I was talking with a friend of mine recently about his job search. We were talking about different ways employers ask you to demonstrate your skills while interviewing. Some make you take tests, some want code examples, and some just expect you to sell yourself. My number one way to demonstrate my skills is through my blog. It not only is a quick way to demonstrate my skills to prospective employers, it also attracts employers that I do not apply to.kinlane-productions2kinlane-produ...

Twitter released a brand new twitter.com today with all kinds of new features. The feature that really stands out for me is now the main twitter.com web site runs off the Twitter API. The Twitter mobile site and Twitter Iphone and IPad apps all run using the Twitter API, but now the most popu...

Seed funding and startups isn't something I normally write about on my blog. I tend to be more vocal about the technology, than the money. Through exposure from Audrey and the ReadWriteStart Channel I am paying more attention to this world again. I have plenty of business planning exposure from working at Palo A...

Here are Fred Wilson's 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps from the February 2010 Future of Web Apps Miami conference. You can watch the video and get the full transcript over at Think ...

I am walking through the Box.net OpenBox Developer area tonight. Box.net offers a pretty robust set of API for managing files and content on the box.net platform. It is a great example of a very robust API. They get you started with: Introduction to OpenBox Actions Getting Started Guide for API Easy Sig-nup Project Setup Page...

I spend time each week to define the technology platform I use to accomplish business. One of the goals of this platform definition is to assist in my migration to the cloud. I realized another tool I use daily, but have overlooked. I use Read more →

I learned about TOR, a free software helps you defend against network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security while reading the Rolling Stone Article about Jacob Appelbaum and his Read more →

I was happy to see the announcement by Google, that they were open sourcing more of the Google Wave platform. I was at the keynote speech where they released Google Wave, and I really believed in the potential of it as a platform. kinlane-productions2 The code they released adds more features and delivers a more complete "Wave in a Box" solution. Th...

I'm reviewing four major Application Programming Interfaces (API) today. Zendesk, Scribd, Twili...

I finally got my Google Storage for Developers email invite the other day. They promised attendees of Google I/O would get them quicker, it took 3 months. I clicked on the link in my email and requested my keys and logged into the Read more →

I have been reviewing a lot of APIs lately. I"m evaluating their potential for integration into applications. As I'm going through I"m also evaluating how they deliver t...

In addition to adopting Gist, I have quickly adopted a new tool that shows you rich contact profiles right inside Gmail. It is called Rapportive. I have hear...

I have successfully integrated social CRM service Gist into my platform. I have bee using it on a daily basis for about a month now.

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