Author: <span>Darius</span>

Author: Darius

Internet Identity Workshop #16

If you are interested in identity, privacy and technology, get your tickets now for the Internet Identity Conference, May 7th to 9th in Mountain View, California. Early bird tickets are available until March 18th. IIW is one of my favorite conferences. The “<a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference”>unconference” format makes it an active, participatory event and many of the…

What Lean Startup Is Not

I feel for Eric Reis. He seems compelled to say, in every talk, right in the beginning, “Lean is not ‘cheap’!” I’m sure it’s because he gets hit with this constantly. Just yesterday I was reading about Education startups and a well-regarded startup founder and investor was quoted as saying that startups in the Education…

Buying a Domain Name

One of the first steps to taking you business online is getting a domain name. Registering a domain name is often a very frustrating gauntlet of up-sell offers and confusing procedures. For this reason, I recommend Hover.com – domain name registration made easy, with clear purchase options, a sensible control panel, and a great support team…

Future Computing

Predicting the future of computing is difficult, and these days possibly the word “computing” itself brings along baggage of its own. Today’s computers don’t spend a lot of their time computing. What we find useful in them is farther removed from computing in every succeeding generation of these systems. Think about the implications of Moore’s…

The Internet Is Worth Protecting

I’ve been on the internet more than half my life. I consider myself a digital native. Today many people are protesting the SOPA and Protect IP Act legislation that threatens the internet. This threat is real, as this legislation breaks some fundamental things about how the internet works. If you are interested in the technical…