Speaking: Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise

It’s time for Philly’s premier emerging tech conference, and I’m going to be speaking once again this year. The conference, Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise, is taking place March 26-27, 2008 in Philadelphia.
I’ll be giving a more technical talk this year than last, combining my interests in leading-edge web applications and security. The talk […]

Amazon Web Services event in Philly

My friends at Invite Media are hosting Jeff Barr, Web Services Evangelist at Amazon.com, for an Amazon Web Services Evangelist Meetup on November 7th.
Its great to see Jeff coming to Philly for this; we have a small but vibrant and growing emerging tech and startup community here, and some people are already using S3, EC2 […]

Math is cool again

A few weeks ago at the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT, Ann Winblad made the comment, “Finally, math is cool again.” The comment stayed with me, as math has been an important part of virtually everything I’ve worked on - from InfoSec Labs in the 90’s, translating mainframe-era security models into methodologies appropriate for companies […]

Undervaluing web audiences

Fred Wilson posted yesterday about overcounting web audiences, highlighting a study on the topic put out by comScore.
The goals of comScore’s research, of course, is to make the case for panel data in accurately measuring audience. Fred’s conclusion is more general:
You cannot rely on your own analytics data. You need third party data as well. […]