March 2009
9 posts
Joel Spolsky: How to be a program manager
Excerpts from Joel’s latest essay (link): Having a good program manager is one of the secret formulas to making really great software. What does a program manager do? Henceforth, a program manager would: Design UIs Write functional specs Coordinate teams Serve as the customer advocate, and Wear Banana Republic chinos divide up the product according to user activities. For...
Mar 15th
WSJ: Rocket Scientists Shoot Down Mosquitoes With...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123680870885500701.html In a lab in this Seattle suburb, researchers in long white coats recently stood watching a small glass box of bugs. Every few seconds, a contraption 100 feet away shot a beam that hit the buzzing mosquitoes, one by one, with a spot of red light…The scientists’ actual target is malaria, which is caused by a parasite transmitted...
Mar 15th
WatchWatch
Jon Stewart taking on CNBC
Mar 13th
TechCrunch: Facebook’s Real-Time Homepage Goes... →
Facebook’s homepage is increasingly “LIVE”, and I think thats how all web-based software apps should be. AJAX isn’t just nice-to-have, its essential for a seamless user experience for web apps. Almost LIVE-enabled Alertle - hope to showcase it someday.
Mar 12th
Alertle - current status
2 mt. demo of Alertle’s version 1.0 Full demo of Alertle’s version 1.0 (with sound) Press Toronto firm scopes out enterprise RSS space - ComputerWorld Canada Alertle - Simplified and Customizable RSS reading - StartupNorth Alertle Wants to Make RSS Mainstream - ReadWriteWeb Find New Feeds and Browse Favorites with Alertle - Lifehacker Feed Reader...
Mar 5th
Web 2.0 Startup Lessons
(Cross-post from Techvibes: http://www.techvibes.com/blog/web-2.0-startup-lessons) I gave a presentation at the DemoCamp 19 in Toronto on my experience in founding/running a Web 2.0 startup over the past few years, and what I think we did right and where we screwed up. My idea was to share some experiences which other entrepreneurs in the consumer web space might find useful, especially those not...
Mar 4th
Canadians make stem-cell breakthrough →
Mar 2nd
Giving an Ignite presentation at DemoCamp on...
Will be sharing some stuff from what I learnt from founding/running a web 2.0 startup from concept to launch to (…) over the past 2+ yrs at the next DemoCamp in town, on Tuesday March 3rd.
Mar 2nd
Paul Graham: Can You Buy a Silicon Valley →
Mar 1st