Bica Jan 15, 2014 Is this just going to be Facebook paying for their content to be delivered more quickly across the board or are we going to start seeing things like Facebook is faster on one service but due to a partnership with a competitor Facebook won’t be as fast on service 2? Will we see…

Wrote this yesterday as my column this week on TechCrunch, have been thinking about “cards” as an interface for mobile apps… —– This is a post about “cards” as an interface in mobile apps. I am not a designer. I am also unable to mention every single app that uses cards — feel free to mention others…

19 Dec 2013 What’s the hardest bug you’ve ever debugged? Every programmer has their heroically exaggerated tales of death defying combatand daring beast slaying. Here’s my epic tale. Memory Corruption

Every few days, I get an email or a Facebook message asking me if I know anyone who’s looking to be their technical co-founder. This post is an aggregation of responses and tips I give to college startups looking for a technical co-founder. Meet Hackers The most important thing you can do is to have…

It's no secret that I'm a fan of bootstrapping. I like to retain 100% founder control of a business that I'm in. There are some circumstances where I'd consider raising capital (as a springboard, not

I don't care about your code challenge. I've recently been doing some interviews for front-end and JavaScript-relatedpositions at local tech companies here in the bay area. One thing I did notexpect as part of this interview process (at a company which shall remainnameless) was to be presented with…

A few minutes ago I came across a Hacker News post that detailed a method of adding search to your static site. As you probably know, adding search to a static site is a bit tricky, because you can’t just send the query to a server and have the server process it and return the results. If you want…

Biz Stone’s much anticipated mobile app “ Jelly ” officially launched today, and since it marries some of my core interests — mobile and marketplaces (Q&A) — I thought I’d jot down some quick, unpolished reactions to the app — which at a high-level, is very well-designed — because it brought…

Did you invent it? Did you come up with it? Did you start it? Really? Then where is it? Show it to me. You can’t can you? Because that’s all you did. You thought, you talked, and you dreamed. These are all good things, all very, very important things but you forgot the most important step. You…

Every time I tell someone about OpenStreetMap, they inevitably ask "Why not use Google Maps?". From a practical standpoint, it's a reasonable question, but ultimately this is not just a matter of practicality, but of what kind of society we want to live in. I discussed this topic in a 2008 talk on…