Startups and the Cloud

If you want to know what was happening minute by minute, please go search the twitter hashtag #SandCloud.  There are pictures, video and commentary there…
That being said there were some interesting things I listened to today:
1) Scott Cook’s take on creating a startup…he had an especially poignant story on having to let employees in his [...]

Adobe Max and the Intuit Partner Platform

The new Intuit Partner Platform was showcased at the Adobe Max conference this week.   Great Job Guys!
This was the culmination of an enormous effort this year by our development teams, our business unit and Intuit, not to mention several 3rd parties that we worked with to provide things like our billing subscription service for the [...]

Workplace and QuickBase at Web 2.0 2008 in New York

In continuation of a phenomenal year for me, I’ve had the pleasure of managing one of the best product development organizations I’ve ever been associated with.  QuickBase alone is a very important product and has changes the way work groups share data or map a process but keep that data in the cloud, bypassing your [...]

QuickBase at the Web 2.0 Conference…

So the QuickBase team is at the Web 2.0 conference showing off both our corporate workgroup product as well as our new developer platform beta. We're sitting here watching the twitter feeds from our gang on the floor. As development manager of QuickBase, it's pretty exciting to see all our hard work getting [...]

Why am I doing this?

About 29 years ago, I touched my first computer.   It was an IBM 360/1500 at Fairfield University.  I was a freshman at Fairfield Prep on the same campus.  In between the 2 semesters we had mini-courses, which were a 2 week break from normal classes and an opportunity to investigate topics that you wouldn’t [...]