William Grosso @ October 31, 2009
I have a talk at Charles Hudson’s Virtual Goods Summit 2009. Mostly based on experience garnered at Twofish and then at Live Gamer.
Managing a Virtual Economy
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William Grosso @ May 17, 2009
As most people who know me know, I’ve been spending a fair amount of time over at Twofish thinking about how to measure virtual economies. It’s actually a difficult problem and the thinking, and the building of solutions, has been fun.
I recently gave a talk at SDForum’s Emerging Technology SIG on why the problem isn’t [...]
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William Grosso @ March 3, 2009
Great post on scripting news, along with a really good set of comments.
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William Grosso @ July 20, 2008
I got an email today from a consulting service looking to outsource some Lucene contracting. Somehow, someway, they got my name and thought “Hmmm. We could send some Lucene consulting his way.”
That reminded me of the startup I founded in 2003. I was relatively new to the idea of founding my own company and, for [...]
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William Grosso @ May 30, 2008
I recently attended Google IO1. While I was there, I ran into some friends. One of whom asked me:
Hey Bill. You know how to network and attend conferences and stuff. What should I be doing here?
Once I got past the momentary confusion (I’m not particularly good at networking and I’m not sure anyone should [...]
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William Grosso @ February 24, 2007
Chris Yeh has now posted his second defense of economic inequality. In many ways, his defenses of economic inequality remind me of the Randians out there, most of whom reason well on a micro-level and all of whom are incapable of rethinking their basic assumptions.
(update: this wasn’t fair to Chris. I wasn’t meaning to call [...]
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William Grosso @ January 12, 2007
For those who weren’t paying attention, or those who were just paying attention to this blog, the story goes something like:
Last March, I left Echopass.
For the next six months, I stayed at home, playing with my newly born son Andrew (well, I also did some consulting; I’m fond of being cash-flow positive).
In late October, I [...]
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William Grosso @ September 4, 2006
I ran across a summary of a report by Evans Data Corporation today. It’s from December 1, 2005 and it’s very surprising. To wit:
The survey found that Client/Server application development has surged 30% in the last six months and is the most developed type of software after a three year decline.
The survey also found that [...]
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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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