Baltimore should become a software education leader
This post appeared first on the Open Society Institute-Baltimore’s Audacious Ideas Blog: Thoughts About How To Change Baltimore for The Better, check it out here.
The U.S. faces a critical shortage of skilled software developers. Employers cannot find enough talented practitioners despite offering high salaries and generous benefits. I believe this is due to [...]
Real Innovation Takes Time
Combinatorial Innovation
There are so many new technologies today: tablets, geolocation, video chat, great app frameworks. It is easy to cherry-pick off “combinatorial” innovations that seem compelling, and can maybe even be monetized readily.
But all those innovations are inevitable. If our technologies afford a certain possibility, they [...]
Will 2011 Be The Year of IPO’s or The Year of Investigations?
The last three years have brought a world of change to online application development, and with the change and increasingly web savvy political and regulatory actors in the nation’s capitol, there is more focused attention on the consumer Internet industry than ever before. In years past the focus of government was on issues like exploitation [...]
Editor’s Notes and Thoughts On Washington’s Startup Community’s Continued Evolution and Growth
As a Washington area startup founder if they are thinking about making a move to the bay area and they will probably tell you that they are or have in recent months. This is natural. This is not, however, the point that we need to be focused in on as a community in in 2011. [...]
Location, Location, Location
Over the last few weeks a lot of people have been really ticked off that their mobile devices are tracking them. First it was the iPhone, then it was Android. It all comes down to location, location, location. If you can advertise to someone based on their location then you can put ads that are [...]
What Is In A Job Title?
When the market starts to heat up and people start hiring like crazy the titles that people are given to keep them in a job or to entice them to take a job start to morph in interesting ways. People often neglect the basis for a title and end up creating titles that wind up [...]
