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Mar 9, 2012

There is no doubt in my mind that venture valuations have become incredibly stretched. I have been thinking about why that is and what will come of it. First off, here are the factors contributing to the stretching of valuations. Read more

Mar 8, 2012

Heyzap’s API announcement is technically yesterday’s news, but there is so much to like here that I figured I would write about it today. First, they announced this on their newly launched developer blog. Etsy has had a developer blog Read more

Mar 7, 2012

Very short post as I am about to get on a plane to fly back from London to New York (and Virgin Atlantic does not yet have wifi on its flights). Reading the papers in London and talking to people Read more

Mar 6, 2012

Over the next three Tech Tuesdays we will cover the three essential technologies that together make up the bulk of most web sites: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This is Step 7 of the web cycle where the web browser uses Read more

Mar 2, 2012

Evan Williams apparently recently said that there is an issue with all of us being stuck in a kind of “continuous present” on the web (ironically, I can’t find that quote right now). I am certainly stuck in that all Read more

Mar 1, 2012

Yesterday I tweeted out this fascinating chart about what has happened to newspaper advertising revenues: The chart comes from this blog post by a professor named Mark Perry. In the comments to the post there is a brief discussion that Read more

Feb 29, 2012

First there was the Path address book tempest. Now there is a concern about apps being able to access photos without permission. It would be a shame if this resulted in more centralized control over apps and longer review processes. Read more

Feb 28, 2012

We have now reached step 6 of the web cycle and are back at the web browser. The web browser is receiving an initial HTTP response from the web server. The first part of this response tells the web browser Read more

Feb 27, 2012

We moved back to the city some 6 weeks ago. Since then we have done entirely without traditional television. So admittedly that’s less than two months, but the initial results are encouraging. The only show that I watch with any Read more