Business

Following a marathon effort, I’m delighted to announce that we’ve closed Webvanta’s Series A financing. It’s very exciting, and quite a relief, to have… Read more »

The First Two Years: Conception It was 10 years ago last week that the idea for PhotoTablet came to me—an Internet tablet that takes… Read more »

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted here, so I thought I’d at least give a brief update. On September 8 we officially… Read more »

I’ve been working lately on creating a Facebook presence for my company, Webvanta. It’s been a somewhat painful experience. You can see the primitive… Read more »

Today we reached an important milestone in the short history of Webvanta—we closed the next phase of our financing. We now have the capital… Read more »

After an amazing year of effort, I’m thrilled to report that the Webvanta beta is now live! Sign up for a free trial on… Read more »

The financial meltdown of the past two weeks has been scary to watch. The New York Times has a nicely done interactive graphic of… Read more »

I’m really excited to be heading to Startup Camp toward the end of this week. This is a gathering of folks from seven startups,… Read more »

Many years ago, when I was writing Microprocessor Report, I read dozens of magazines a week and sifted through hundreds of printed, mailed press… Read more »

It’s been a while since I’ve posted to this blog, so I thought it was time for an update. Anyone who has been involved… Read more »

For the past several months, the majority of my time has gone into a web application for a startup called Accreditation Helper. The marketing… Read more »

When I started this blog almost a year ago, I really wasn’t sure what I’d be writing about. As it happened, it ended up… Read more »

It’s been awfully quiet here on the blog the past month or so… but that’s only because life here in the physical world has… Read more »

If my personal behavior is any indication, things are looking up for subscription web services. When I went out on my own last fall,… Read more »

Six months into my exploration of Ruby and Rails and the opportunities it represents, I’ve settled into a niche of building web applications that… Read more »

One of the curses of the computer age, especially for those of us who do development work, is the vast amount of detail that… Read more »

Happy new year! When I left Adobe at the end of November, I promised myself that I would “take a break” for perhaps as… Read more »

It is often said that failures are more instructive than successes. In this spirit, I’ve done a lot of reflection on what went wrong… Read more »

I’ve used IBM Thinkpads for a long time. Upon leaving Adobe recently, I had to purchase my own notebook PC for the first time… Read more »

I’ve just reached the end of a seven-year adventure into software for digital photography. The adventure began with my first digital camera, a Nikon… Read more »

As I’ve been exploring what kind of business I want to build, I’ve found my thinking settling on hosted applications for small business. Here’s… Read more »

I’ve spent a lot of time in the past couple of months thinking through potential opportunities for building a new business. I’m still exploring… Read more »

A central presumption behind hosted applications is that Internet connectivity is becoming universal. There are some obvious problems with this presumption, such as when… Read more »

For more than 10 years, I’ve arranged my computing around a single notebook PC that went with me everywhere. With docks, monitors, and keyboards… Read more »