Author Archives: Vlad

The Eve of Shockey Monkey

Shockey Monkey
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It’s hard to believe that it has been nearly two years since I first shared the vision of Shockey Monkey, even harder to belive the amount of people and effort that went into building this beast. Tomorrow I get to … Continue reading

Working with EU: Does location matter?

Shockey Monkey
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With the launch of SM 2.1 (yeah, yeah, looking forward, you’ll get the details on Monday folks!) and its commercial nature I have to cross the unglobalization bridge that the US has been burning and pissing on for quite some … Continue reading

Poor Google?

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I’ve been watching the outrage over the Microsoft-4-Yahoo! bid with mild interest and surprise at the angle that the general blogging public has taken against Microsoft! If I didn’t know any better it would seem like Microsoft is this giant … Continue reading

The only good thing about Microsoft buying Yahoo is the Microsoft Partner benefit

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Microsoft has proposed an acquisition of Yahoo! and you can read the multitude of opinions at techmeme but I figured I’d offer you one more: The only side to benefit from the potential merger will be the Microsoft partner. Microsoft … Continue reading

What is your biggest fear as the CEO of a software company?

IT Business
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I got that question posed to me today in an entrepreneur interview for UCF. What I proceeded to say was a PG-13 rated response of tourette’s syndrome that most VARs, partners, techies and CIO’s spout about nearly every company they … Continue reading

Figuring out naptime for programmers (and other DND tasks)

Misc
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I’ve been up since roughly 9 PM last night working on the Shockey Monkey service desk enhancements and so far the evening has been quite productive. I’d venture to guess that my output tonight has been greater than it has … Continue reading

Ashamed to be a Floridian

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Today is the second day ever that I am ashamed to be a Floridian. Back in August of 2005, Florida got scraped by a little hurricane called Katrina. It proceeded to go around the panhandle and absolutely decimate Louisiana, Mississippi … Continue reading

BYOB Update

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Last night we held our first meeting since roughly September and the attendance was fairly good. We had a few regulars, few newbies, few old friends.. all in all it was a good networking meeting and the chance to catch … Continue reading

What makes businesses fail or stagnate?

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Pretty simple question: What dooms certain businesses to fail or never grow beyond where they are at right now and presumably have been for years? If you ask the business owner, it’s always the same answer: money. Except it’s not … Continue reading

Mobile Competition for Pocket IE

Mobility
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Let’s face it, web browsing on a Pocket PC has been one huge disappointment after another. Not to just fault Microsoft, all other contenders have not come even close to a desktop browser in your pocket. Not Opera. Not Minimo. Not … Continue reading