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Ten million users is the new one million users
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Why you should continue working on your bad idea
"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!" - Randy Pausch
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What Amazon's ebook strategy really means
It seems to me that a lot of folks in the previous discussion don't really understand quite what makes Amazon so interesting—and threatening, for that matter—to the publishing industry.
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4 Months Of eBook Sales
System programming for Ruby programmers.
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MySQL Cluster 7.2 GA Released, Delivers 1 Billion Queries per Minute
Oracle is delighted to announce the immediate availability of the production-ready, GA release of MySQL Cluster 7.2, available for download under the GPL , and as part of the commercial MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition , including management tools, product certifications and 24x7 global support.
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Why Startups Die
Startups die due to a variety of causes. Over the course of the last three years, I've watched many of my friends pour their hearts and souls into companies that, for one reason or another, just fizzled out of existence. In 2007, Paul Graham gave a variety of causes for…
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Why the cloud isn't for your startup
BlueScripts is a boutique Clearwater software studio. We build custom software, web apps, iOS apps, and APIs for startups and SMBs across Tampa Bay. Senior engineers, no juniors, no offshoring.
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Mobile is Where the Growth Is
If you look at any of the top web properties on comScore, Quantcast, Alexa or any other third party reporting service you will see that they all have been fairly flat over the first half of the year. You might think that all these big web services are flatlining. We have seen this in our […]
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The Hacker Way
I don't normally comment on the day's news, but I want to make an exception today to share something from Facebook's S-1 filing . Over the n...
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Rogue Amoeba responds to Phil Schiller
Visit the Rogue Amoeba blog to read more.
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How not to get acquired
I launched Gittip.com 16 days ago. It saw really strong initial uptake, then it got side-swiped by a botched acquisition. Herewith, a cautionary tale.
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SparkFun Gets A Subpoena
We've never seen a subpoena before, have you? Check this out...
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The Cloud Is Not for You
Shop a wide selection of domains at HugeDomains.com. Find the right domain name today.
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The Twitter "Patent Hack"
Yesterday Twitter announced that they plan to amend the assignments agreements that they sign with their employees. They call this proposed amendment the Innovator's Patent Agreement. I've been aware of this effort inside of Twitter for a while and I like to call this move the "Twitter Patent Hack" because I think…
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