Archive for the ‘Research’ Category

New York Ad Startups – Location, Location, Location

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

photo credit: Sideshow Bruce Last week, AM New York published a list of the hottest startups in NYC. The amNY article started us thinking about all the advertising-focused startups located in New York City. In today's Internet-based world, location is less important than it was in the past; however, proximity ...

Sun Shines On Oracle Part Deux

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

In a previous post, we discussed the history of Oracle and MySQL. In this post we will focus on Oracle's relationship with its new star, Java. History Oracle made its first big move into the Java space in 2001 when it acquired a non-exclusive license for the source code of Sweden-based IronFlare ...

Affero General Public License – AGPL

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

There are a lot of open source licenses available. Based on what you want to accomplish, choosing the correct license is important. What people don't commonly understand is the difference between open source and the freedom to do whatever you want with the source. There has been a bit of ...

Cloud Infrastructure Blueprint

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

As cloud platforms and services start to make their way to the market, we think it's becoming obvious how the industry will play out. To understand the future, it’s important to look at the past. Best of Breed Stand alone providers who offer services provided by clouds are going to find it ...

Google’s App Engine

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Recently, we've been researching cloud computing so we decided to take a look at Google's App Engine. We had hoped to write this earlier, but it was some time before we received access from Google to use App Engine :-) We're excited to see cloud computing move forward but, as ...

Gazing Into The Clouds

Monday, April 7th, 2008

photo credit: Lodewijk van den Broek Cloud computing is garnering a lot of attention lately. There are wild rumors and announcements about Google, Microsoft, IBM and others entering the space. Additionally, startups like 10gen and Heroku also appear to be working on the same problem. Cloud computing will be a fast ...

Browser-Based Web Development

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

For the last few decades, there have been two primary methods for developing software. The first is the remote model where engineers write software on a networked server. Typically, an engineer will open a remote terminal session and use either Vim or Emacs to edit source files. The other, and ...

Notes on Android

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Over the holidays we researched Google's Android. We assembled a lot of information but never finished documenting our analysis. Here are our notes. In case you've been hiding under a rock for the last month, Android is Google's new mobile operating system. In August of 2005, Google acquired Android from a ...

Facebook Application Security

Monday, October 15th, 2007

While developing Smart Links we spent a lot of time thinking about the security model of Facebook applications. We did this to ensure that our users have a reliable experience. Imagine how a user would feel if they went to view a link they added in the application and it ...