Portland (OR) comes to mind as a place where there's some fantastic tech people and no university, but I'm not sure if it's considered a startup hub or not.

For somewhere around a year now, we've had an average of one new startup registering with our Venture Services Group each day. I am struggling with the correct way to be pedantic about it, it's just the connotation of "comes out" that I want to highlight - the startups registering with us don't necessarily meet any minimum requirements, versus those who graduate from one of the incubation or accelerator programs we run or are associated with.

(I work for Communitech, but not in VSG so my understanding is likely to be only slightly more refined than noirman's, and could have a hole or two)

(edit to add: we're working on fixing the site!)

I've noticed a lot of games in the Mac App Store are starting to have a single "unlock full game" IAP. These I really like. The good ones have enough content to show the nature of the game, get me hooked on the mechanics or story and lead directly into the single unlock.

It's a classic shareware model and results in my willingness to pay more for games because there's much less risk. The good ones also are very explicit in the description on the App Store that it is a first level/trial with IAP.

I find it to be very consumer friendly.

Like old school shareware, where you got the first episode to play through and then could purchase the rest of the game for a small fee.

As for the guy's situation it sounds like they need some more nag screens and easier ways of sending them money. (Well it is currently a lot easier than the old days of shareware, no envelopes to fill out, just a button to press.

I'm a big fan of Jumpcut (http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net/), a dedicated clipboard manager. Several other tools that include clipboard management have been mentioned but if you don't want the rest of the functionality, this is great for it.

iCal and Mail do a fantastic job syncing with Google and Exchange, so I use those.

My wardrobe follows many of these mechanics - jeans, t-shirt, hoodie. In the winter (I live in Waterloo, Ontario) I just add layers. Sometimes more shirts, sometimes long underwear, and always a jacket, hat, gloves etc. It's usually pretty warm inside, so the core pieces don't change.

I switched about 8 months ago because my employer bought me a BlackBerry (edit to add: Torch 9810). I was quite surprised with how good it is, though my needs for it are pretty lightweight: Email, occasionally Twitter, and casual browsing. It does all of those extremely well.

The BB10 devices should run Android apps, but I doubt there will be better Google Apps integration. My guess is that they will feature better MS apps (in part because of the Bing app on PlayBooks) before they do Google ones.

This is a great article. My knee jerk reaction was to be a bit defensive "but native development is a lot of work too!" And it is, great applications require a lot of work regardless of platform.

But the article isn't (explicitly at least) saying that web-based mobile applications necessarily require any more work than porting an application between multiple platforms, but it is saying that web-based mobile application development isn't just "crank out an app and it runs great everywhere" which is something a lot of proponents (among whom I count myself) certainly do argue.

As the article concludes, there are a great many number of considerations when selecting a platform, and the detail here highlights the many that exist for mobile development.

I really very deeply enjoyed this article.

thanks a lot! that was exactly what I was hoping to demystify: Yes! HTML5 can do the job, just don't underestimate the amount of work it will take you.

Sure there's room, but the thesis is that rms' personality does disservice to his cause. He is willing to email documents around to collaborate using Free Software, but he's not willing to market effectively.

My reading of the Velocity article suggests that Ted donated his million to the University "to expand support for student entrepreneurs".

The University, in turn, has established a million dollar seed fund to support student ventures. So while it is probably basically the same million dollars, the University is acting as an intermediary and has control over the fund in some fashion or another.