Eric Kerr
Back in 2011 I wrote a post titled Startup Investment Portfolio Game where I started a list of companies I would invest in if I could to look back on in the future. This post is intended show how the startup investment picks list would have done as a venture capital portfolio as well as [ ]
An enhancement to a product we’ve been working on recently included a mockup of a business logo overlaid on a Google Map with people scattered randomly nearby intending to represent potential first time customers. Read More
Find My iPhone is a nifty feature in Apple s iOS that shows a map of wherever a person s phone is. While the main purpose of this feature is listed as finding misplaced phones, most people tend to presciently enable it hoping to recover their not-yet-stolen phone. David Pogue, a New York Times technology writer, recently [ ]
About 11 months ago, Marc Andreessen, founding partner of venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz, wrote an essay titled Why Software is Eating the World . In it, he claims that industry leading corporations that fail to adapt by making technology the core of their business will be creatively destructed by startup companies. Plenty of comparison has been [ ]
I read about technology news and startups fairly regularly and often find myself saying man, I wish I could invest in them . I thought it would be a fairly fun exercise to compile a list of companies I m excited about now and look back on them in the future. For the past few months I ve [ ]
The Facebook Open Graph Like Button is susceptible to a type of attack known as clickjacking. Basically, if the like button is embedded on the page you re on, made completely transparent, then an attacker could trick you into Liking something without your discretion. How the attack works: 1. User navigates to your page, like button [ ]
The updated iPhone Developer Agreement includes stringent clauses around the acceptable use of storing, transmitting, and processing user data. Here is the updated section 3.3.9 in its entirety. I have added emphasis to clauses I would like to highlight: 3.3.9 The following requirements apply to You and Your Application s use, collection, processing, maintenance, uploading, syncing, [ ]
Let me ask a simple question. What would you expect to happen if you typed in http://google.com/mapss in to your browser bar? I d be willing to bet that you re looking to be directed to Google s mapping service, but what do you find? Ouch, that s disappointing now I feel like an idiot, and I still [ ]
I ve quietly been compiling a list of predictions for what s going to happen in 2010 for the past few weeks, and it will be fun to look back in a year and see how I did. There are a leisurely 40 predictions some bold, some straightforward but I m sure the unexpected will make [ ]
While the usage and importance of controlling a user s startpage has declined recently due to search access within the browser, most of the services I use on a regular basis on the web are available within iGoogle (gMail, Reader, Weather, Calendar, etc.). Conveniently, Google also happened to have by far the best search engine, so [ ]
