Jul
25
Blog Break: Unscheduled
July 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Sorry about the unscheduled blog break. Outside world has been a bit crazy lately. Regular posting will resume next week.
Jul
18
Big Internet, Small World
July 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment
That was weird.
Recently, my wife and I decided to sell a clothes rack/dust collector. Some people call them treadmills. We owned it for years, and never really used it, preferring instead the recumbent bikes at the gym.
I posted the treadmill to the Tampa edition of Craigslist. Now, if you’ve not used Craigs, it offers a […]
Jul
16
The 2 year old, and the iPhone
July 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
This video has been making the rounds quite a bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVULzm28M0o
The iPhone is getting quite a bit of “hype-backlash” lately. Many complain about the on-screen keyboard and some of the built-in limitations. But if I told you that I had a smart phone that could read email, browse photos, watch movies, access the web, play music, […]
Jul
11
Developer Profile: Brian Bucklew
July 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment
During the course of my career, I’ve encountered a handful of developers you could build a company around. Unfortunately, I’ve always managed to encounter them after someone else had already built a company around them.
These coders have the design skills, coding abilities and customer awareness needed to create amazing products.
I worked with Brian Bucklew at […]
Jul
10
Monetizing Free: Foxmarks
July 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment
First time around, say the late 90’s, we got one thing right and a lot of things wrong. What we got right was the idea that if we gave something away for free, and got a lot of users, we could make money off them.
What we got wrong, was that we had no idea how […]
Jul
9
Hillel Cooperman and Jackson Fish Market
July 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I may be late to the party, but I see that Hillel Cooperman has left Microsoft and formed Jackson Fish Market. Best of luck to Hillel, Walter and Jenny on becoming the next 37signals.
I met Hillel about 4 years ago at a Microsoft partner preview for Windows “Longhorn,” which later became Vista. (I still have […]
Jul
5
Surviving Autism
July 5, 2007 | 1 Comment
Penelope Trunk, of the Brazen Careerist, writes very candidly about entering marriage counseling with her husband. What caught my eye was her mention of raising an autistic son, and the fact that 80 percent of marriages involving an autistic child end in divorce.
While this is much more personal than I ever get in my blog, […]
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- I'm Bob Crosley. Since 1995, I've been involved in the web and software development as a developer, project manager, program manager and product manager.
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