In 2008, Steve Blank gave a keynote called the Secret History of Silicon Valley.  I highly (highly) recommend that you watch the video before you read this post; it is well worth one hour of your time. You'll get a good perspective on what makes this place so unique and how it came about. (But then, come back and read the rest of the post, please :-)

Vator.tv wants to give a few content startups a hand by putting them in front of a bunch of top media companies.  We want to help these companies, too, by making sure they know about this event and getting the word out.

I've attended two Google Wave Meetups in the last two weeks and they were both great. It is remarkable how quickly developers are filling out the Wave ecosystem with robots and gadgets and whatnots. One "bot" in particular, I found mind blowing.

There's a lot of confusion out there about Wave. We're like the proverbial blind men trying to figure out the elephant. The people describing Wave as "like" something else are, in my opinion, missing one of the key things about Wave and what makes it a radical game-changer.

 I’m not a fan of using story points, however, one way or the other, estimates are a very important step in any project and a key to delivering on-time.  The result of not doing it is downright awful, and everybody in the team suffers the consequences.  In this post I want to share the steps we follow to make estimates.