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Frederik Andersen of Goodmorning Technology in Denmark gave a great talk last night at Innovation Center Denmark in Palo Alto on the speed of innovation. His design firm is working on all kinds of interesting projects using a method which I found very reminiscent to what we do as agile web application developers. …
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A good and important ruling was made the other day in the 9th Circuit Court in the US about amending contract terms. It is important for anyone who has a Terms of Service, User Agreement or similar on their site to understand this and what it means for them. In a nutshell the ruling says that you can’t just go changing …
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The other day I went to a lunch with the Silicon Vikings who are an association of Scandinavian’s and interested parties who meet up once a month to network and talk about specific issues. If you are Scandinavian and in the Bay area you should go, it is definitely and interesting crowd of Scandinavian’s who now call …
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Note, this is all US related. You should probably skip the headache it’s certain to give you if you are not US based. I have long been a proponent of LLC’s for most startups. See for example Why the LLC is the Ruby on Rails of legal entities. However there are times that S-Corporations may be better. I have an S-Corp …
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At the last Copenhagen.rb meetup in November we discussed how to get Rails in to our enterprise customers. I am thinking more and more that lets use it with the one or two visionary enterprise customers that exist. But let’s not kill ourselves trying to get it in to the enterprise. Subversive uses are great, but we …
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Surely we should understand these identity technologies for our new hot web 2.0 app. This is most likely something you have thought if you have a web application. The easy counter statement I would like to give you is don’t you already maintain the required identity for your application? This post is the second part of …
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Identity is one of those things that technologists like to solve, and solve, and solve. The reason they keep solving it is that they don’t really go deep and analyse what identity is and what they are trying to solve. Oh, when saying they I should really say we as I’ve tried to reinvent the wheel as well. So we keep …
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For those of you who haven’t yet heard of FON, they are a very cool Spanish WIFI startup, who aim to make their Wifi network ubiquitous throughout the world. So how have they taken up the challenge of the worlds telecoms companies? Well they’ve created what they call a social router. This is basically a Wifi Access …
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I have for a long time without even questioning it, figured it’s best to keep shut about political issues when doing business. As everyone who knows me can attest to I am a very opinionated guy when it comes to politics and economics. While I don’t directly hide that fact on this blog, I don’t necessarily advertise it …
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I know my last post Don’t listen to your family might be interpreted in a negative manner, it really wasn’t meant that way. Families can be and are mostly great. There are definitely examples out there where they aren’t, but generally speaking they are great. In particular if you learn to learn from them. As I said …
