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 @ 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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