William Grosso @ June 26, 2006
David Weinberger writes an excellent blog. Truly compelling stuff on a regular basis. And if you go to his main web page, you'll notice some very good articles as well. His books are excellent too and in person he's a good conversationalist with genuine insight (I met him exactly once, when I picked him up [...]
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William Grosso @ June 25, 2006
A few months back, Chris Yeh and Nancy Tubbs took Founder's Forum, an older SDForum SIG, and rechristened it the Startup SIG. The idea was to refocus and re-eneregize the SIG, and make it more relevant to what's going on in the valley now.
I'm incredibly happy to say they're doing fine. I wish I [...]
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William Grosso @ June 20, 2006
Over the weekend, I had something of an aha moment. I've been wandering around a lot lately, and thinking more than usual about the industry and what's going on.
I think the panel discussion last Friday on Emerging Technologies was also a catalyst. As a result of preparing for it, I've been wondering about 2009 more [...]
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William Grosso @ June 20, 2006
I know, I know. The title only works if you imagine that I sound like Cary Grant. And, actually, it doesn't really work then either.
But … SDForum now has a Ruby SIG! Really. We do. I'll repeat that in a slightly bigger font, in case you missed it:
SDForum now has a Ruby SIG.
This is the [...]
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William Grosso @ June 17, 2006
Every now and then, I wind up talking in front of a room full of people. It's an occupational hazard– what with running SDForum's Emerging Technology SIG and with being a VP of Engineering at startups, people sometimes think I might have something worth saying. And since I'm such a gracious and genial person, I [...]
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William Grosso @ June 15, 2006
Krugle went live yesterday. It's a search engine "for code and technical content."
That is to say, vertical search focused at the software developer market. Very interesting to me because I often want such a thing. When you're hacking together a prototype, you often "google for code." Having a tool that's explicitly designed for this purpose [...]
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William Grosso @ June 11, 2006
If you're reading this blog, you probably know that I help to run SDForum's Emerging Technology SIG.
My goal there is simple: to help to create an ongoing series of talks that prepares the entrepreneurial engineering community for what's coming down the pipeline.
Sidenote: There's been a lot of talk lately about what makes Silicon Valley what [...]
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