"The fund will focus on Blackberry apps, but will also be free to to invest in startups that develop for other mobile platforms as well. That’s smart because no startup should restrict itself to just one device." - James Prudente

"But Xobni Analytics was the wrong product to build for another, more important, reason: It wasn’t a sticky application, one that tempted users to come back again and again." - James Prudente

"The first portion of the project was writing a parser to dynamically convert code written in the Processing language, to JavaScript. This involves a lot of gnarly regular expressions chewing up the code, spitting it out in a format that the browser understands." - James Prudente

"We believed from the get-go that if you're going to build a location-based social network, a social network means that all of your friends can be on it, and not just your friends that have really fancy devices or that are on a certain carrier." - James Prudente

Or that they even have to use a phone to interact with the service. - Hayes Haugen

"Recently switch all of the WordPress.com load balancers to be nginx. They push a little over a gigabit of traffic right now and about half a billion requests per day, no sweat." - James Prudente

"On April 30, 2008 Sony Ericsson announced its new Project Capuchin technology which is a Java ME API that defines a bridge between the Java ME and Adobe Flash Lite programming environments. This API makes it possible to use Flash Lite as the front end and Java ME as the back end of applications, meaning that Flash tools can be used for UI design while still having access to all the phone services available to Java ME." - James Prudente

"There you'll find all 198 of the Twittering Zappos employees' most recent messages. Employees tweet about what they are doing at work and about interesting resources on and off the Zappos site." - James Prudente

The ceo's comment about having all your friends on twitter making the difference is intriguing. Cause otherwise twitter is falling flat for me. Plus friendfeed is making me discuss everything in public with you and that is also off putting. Guess I'm an oldy. - Hayes Haugen