I’m Consistent, is that Boring?

William Grosso @ December 26, 2008

I’m spending most of today preparing for my upcoming Java SIG talk (Jan 6, Cubberley Community Center in Mountain View). The abstract for the talk is:
The rise of next-generation languages that run on top of the JVM is probably the most interesting thing to happen in the Java universe since the combination of the Spring [...]

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Talking more these days

William Grosso @ December 21, 2008

For the past three years, I’ve been fairly low-profile. Almost no public speaking1, no articles or books, and very little community activity at all2
The reason was clear: I’ve got a 2.5 year old son and, as those of you with children know, they can absorb almost all your time. So, between the family and the [...]

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App Engine is Jotspot. No, Seriously.

William Grosso @ June 3, 2008

Way back in 2004, I was running SDForum’s Emerging Technology SIG. I was also looking for a job: we’d sold Hipbone to Kana and my people-search startup idea wasn’t getting much traction with the VC’s1 So I looked around for a job and interviewed at Jotspot.
I was fascinated by the vision. Ultimately, I [...]

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Spontaneous Conferences around Hot Topics

William Grosso @ September 18, 2007

Recently, the valley has seen a trend towards mini-conferences. One or two day events centered around a hot technology topic. The idea seems to be: move very fast, get all the top names around a topic with a lot of buzz, and get it all done within 60 days (120 days at the top).
There’s definitely [...]

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Has it really been 20 years? Has it only been 20 years?

William Grosso @ September 17, 2007

20 years ago, Allan Bloom convinced me I knew very little. His book, The Closing of the American Mind, is a bona-fide masterpiece. It’s brilliant, it’s compelling, and, in its own way, it’s as Gonzo as anything Hunter S Thompson ever wrote.
So it shocked me to learn that it’s been 20 years. Because the book [...]

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iPhone? Not for me

William Grosso @ July 5, 2007

Now that the storm around the iPhone has subsided, it’s time to admit the obvious: it doesn’t matter.
What it is, in the end, is a gorgeous phone with a few too many limitations. It runs Mac OSX, but that’s been crippled (you can’t install software). It makes calls, but they’re only over AT&T. It’s [...]

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Blogs to Watch: Paul Brown

William Grosso @ October 11, 2006

So Paul and I went to grad school together. Afterwards, I went off to the valley and he went off to be an academic.
Then he founded Fivesight (later bought by Intalio) to work on BPEL. Then he worked for Amazon. Now he’s an independent. As befits his wanderings, he’s got a clever and eclectic [...]

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Celebrating YouTube’s Assimilation.

William Grosso @ October 10, 2006

I was wrong; I thought Mark Cuban (see also) was completely convincing.
On the bright side, I’m happy to announce that the new video of Andrew is apparently going to be served out of the world’s biggest supercomputer.

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Free Issue of New Journal: Foundations and Trends in Web Science

William Grosso @ October 2, 2006

The inaugural issue of Foundations and Trends in Web Science, entitled A Framework For Web Science is available for free download.
Each issue of FnTWEB is an in-depth review of a single topic. This one appears (it’s 130 pages and I haven’t read it yet) to be making the case for “Web Science” as a discipline. [...]

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70% of Developers are Writing Mobile Applications

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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