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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 
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
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.
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The code they released adds more features and delivers a more complete "Wave in a Box" solution.
Th...
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
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.
CloudCommons has developed the Service Measurement Index (SMI) Framework, a set of
I once quit a job because I got called into a meeting where the agenda was to discuss having too many meetings.
I am needing more programmatic control over my Amazon EC2 environment. I am rebuilding all server instances on my Amazon Web Services network.
I needed to reconfigure using EBS Volumes for file and data storage, and upgrade the operating system...
I had a chance to play with the AlchemyAPI I came across today. AlchemyAPI is a semantic tagging and text mining Application Programming Interface (API).
I can parse any document or web page and tell you what words exist in the content. I can tell you which words are most used or potentially meaningful in the content.
What I would like to have is more meaningful sets of key phrases and tag sets that are specific to certain topics and industries.
I w...
I have a "hobby" harvesting project going on right now. I'm am harvesting several thousand web pages from various locations on a certain topic.
I'm not really interested in the content itself, but the top keywords that are used in the content. I pulled the page and extracted the body content that I am interested in analyzing.
I then want to pull a list of the top keywords and key phrases used in the page.
So I am faced with next steps:
Spen...
I'm seeing a lot of chatter on the Internets lately about API development and best practices. Like 10 Common Mistakes Made by API Providers at RWW and
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I am still processing a great post at High Scalability called, Scaling an AWS infrastructure - Tools and Patterns. They cover several tools you can use to take advantage...
I was reading a good post on getting your API right. They propose following these rules when developing your API:
I was just refining a wiki page of various building blocks I use at Amazon Web Services. I noticed it would make a great Internet Service Provider (ISP) package for someone who wanted to start an ISP, or even used as model for an existing ISP looking to migrate to cloud computing.
These are a few of the comp...
