At my company CitySourced, collaboration is key and for a long time we were die hard Dropbox users. They have a spectacular product from a consumer point of view, but as we grew, it was clear their product would not work for me and my team in the long term. Yes, I’m aware that they have a Dropbox for Teams.…
Optimizing Eclipse on a Windows System
Having been thrust into mobile development, I’ve had to become acquainted with the Eclipse IDE. I had some experience working in Eclipse while I was at MySpace, but the experience was pretty limited there as it was a mix of Windows and Linux for that particular product (MySpace Karaoke, if you must know). Now that I’m pretty much in the…
Saying Goodbye to My Yahoo! Email Account…
So I, like many other tech enthusiasts, have a million email addresses. I had been using my Yahoo! email address as my personal email address for years, but I’m finally fed up with it, and I’ve set up my auto-responder to let everyone know of my new address (yes, it’s a Gmail account). Why would I go through all that…
My Go To Collection of .Net GIS Libraries
For all you .NET wonks out there, I had some serious trouble finding the solution that fit my business (CitySourced – http://www.citysourced.com) when it came to processing geo spatial elements. Yes, there’s the SQL Server 2008 and their new spatial types (which I use as well), but there was nothing that allowed me to work with geo spatial elements directly…
Using Redirect and EndResponse in Azure Crashes the AppFrabric Load Balancer
Now that CitySourced is on Microsoft’s Azure cloud services, I’m a huge fan of what it offers both developers and startup companies. That being said, I wanted to put a quick note out there about a fix to a bug I found to help spread the knowledge I’ve gained getting into the nuts and bolts of it. With CitySourced, the…
SquareShare Has Launched & Is Gaining Traction…
I wanted to give a shout out to an LA startup that I feel is doing incredibly well – and they’ve killed it at the two events that they’ve been involved with. That startup is SquareShare, and they have some really cool technology. In a nutshell, SquareShare allows anyone to promote their offline content (think flyers, magazine & newspaper content)…
Why We Should Boycott ComScore – Repost from Jason Calacanis
I really like Jason and what he’s done as an entrepreneur in the internet space. I like to support him and his causes, so I’m reposting his email (as he suggests) on the “Pay to Play” services offered by ComScore. Enjoy! Comscore is the technology industry’s biggest bully, and today I’m calling for an industry-wide boycott of their services. I’m…
CitySourced & The City of San Jose – Great Stuff!
I don’t know if many of you know, but I founded a company called CitySourced recently. Very simply, we make it really easy to make your city a better place with your smartphone. See a pothole or some graffiti? Snap a picture of it with your iPhone and it automatically gets reported to City Hall. Cool, eh? Well, I think…
Data.gov – Destined to Fail From the Onset…
After reading a great article by the Sunlight Foundation on the failure to date of data.gov, I wanted to express my personal view on the matter. I’m a huge fan of openness and information being freely available. That was one of the main reasons I founded freedomspeaks.com and its corresponding set of APIs. After reading some of the comments to…
Go Jason Calacanis – Paying to Present Is Outrageous
I’m writing publicly here to support Jason Calacanis’ jihad against angel investment groups and venture capitalists forcing entrepreneurs to pay to present their ideas. These organizations are an abomination, and I will not be a part of them. Jason’s annual TechCrunch50 conference really opened up some doors for my startup – CitySourced, and we didn’t have to pay a single…