Wow. This is really bad news for WakeMate. This is the kind of bad news that can basically destroy your company/brand. I have to admit that now I will consider long and hard before buying one (and I think I already paid $10 to RSVP one (I forget)). It was only days ago that [...]
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I remember a VP from Facebook commented to me in person about how it’s frightening for them to give the data to 3rd parties – because people can do nefarious things with the data. … which is what people are worried about with Facebook. Oh the irony. But this is a good example of the [...]
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I have a bit of conjecture here. ANT+ is a low-power wireless for exchanging data among peripheral devices. Generally this is telemetry or biometric data used in fitness gear but could really be anything (the MPH of your car for example). I have an ANT+ heart monitor made by Garmin. I like it….. it’s ok. [...]
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Tagged: iphone
This is an interesting startup… I’ve been really involved in fitness the last year. I’ve taken a bit of time off from the startup scene as I want to run Ironman in Kona in October 2011. Best shape of my life… Lost 70 lbs. Bike 18 miles a day. Anyway, the point is that I’ve [...]
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Seriously China? Why not just make computers illegal? Or just make cell phones illegal too! In the latest move dashing Western internet company hopes of breaking into China, it was announced that all internet phone calls were to be banned apart from those made over two state-owned networks, China Unicom and China Telecom. “[This] [...]
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Turns out RethinkDB is a SSD database to watch in 2011. I’ve known about it for a while but it hasn’t really stood out just yet (I don’t know anyone running it in production). That said, I’m excited by the potential. What’s really shocking to me, is that while SSD and flash storage is very [...]
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There is definitely a war in Silicon Valley (and SF) for top talent. Todd McKinnon, the co-founder and chief executive of San Francisco software start-up Okta Inc., calls the competition for top talent “a war.” His company, which this year raised $10 million in Series A funding from venture firm Andreessen Horowitz and angel investors, [...]
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Percona just announced that they’re going to include HandlerSocket in the latest Percona build. This is huge news. In case you aren’t aware, HandlerSocket is a raw protocol interface that is similar to a dictionary lookup (kind of like memcached, or a hashtable) and does NOT go through the SQL parser. The performance implications are [...]
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At Spinn3r we frequently deal with the chaos revolving around robots.txt so I thought I would throw few thoughts out there about the complexity of the issues involved here. REP is not a EULA This is part of the confusion around robots.txt. It’s not really clear that just because you can fetch a URL that [...]
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