Running kooaba now for a couple of years a few tools turned out to be handy. Let’s just assume you start a tech company with at total of six coworkers (3 engineering, 2 business development / marketing , 1 management). Here’s a setup that might work, for your convenience and your business plan including approximate [...]
So you just coded this really cool Internet application, which is kind of a mixture between, youtube, facebook and flickr, but targeted stamp collectors. Everybody likes it, even your former high-school sweetheart thinks it has enormous potential. Congratulations! Time to uncork the Champagne. Mmmm, but how are you gonna make money? No matter if you [...]
One of the best things about the Mac are the little utility Software’s that solve some niche problem very well. Many of them are very well designed, both in terms of UI and usability. Yes, most of them cost money, but unlike their PC equivalents they usually don’t suck and a few bucks are well [...]
What to strive for, and how to do it. (and how not to do it):
Here are some highlights:
My key bits
We live in exciting times
Passion for what you do as main priority
Vision, mobile devices, their integration with the cloud are some key topics
The full interview is available in the iTunes store
In Scrum, the (development) team has full authority. Only when I recently had a look at the book “Software project management for Dummies” I realized how stark this simple statement contrasts with some traditional approaches to software project management.
Here is a section about “programmers” from Software project management for dummies:
And here is one from Agile [...]
A must see for anyone responsible for development of a software product: Scrum et al. by Ken Schwaber. Besides the actual contents of the talk I like that it is being delivered without any slides.
Interesting article by the inventor of the Web.
At kooaba we connect physical things to the Web through image recognition for mobile devices … the Internet of Things realized through image recognition - or mobile visual search.
Two years after Google bought Neven Vision (their?) face detection and recognition technology was added to Picasa yesterday. Two years ago I assumed that they would probably do that - just like Riya at the time. Interestingly, the latter seems to have been pretty much abandoned in favour of Like.
The question ow is, how [...]
Last year Herbert won and represented us for kooaba at Venture leaders in Boston - this year I congratulate especially:
Remo
Stefan
Mael
Paul
Mark
Christian
Have fun in Boston, guys!