I’m initiating a project on residential energy optimization, tracking a bear in the back yard, working with a Raspberry Pi to develop a Big Data development cluster, and getting ready for a couple of upcoming talks

While working on the Facebook Privacy Informer App, I had to tackle the issue of “Scope of Distribution” of your personal information. Actually, this should be more properly named as “Scope of (Intended) Distribution”. Facebook privacy controls allow you to set the distribution of various aspects of your Facebook profile. In general, the controls allow you to set distribution to: (The inappropriately named) “Only...

Like others involved in the emerging privacy marketplace, I think a lot about what “Privacy” means. There are many ways to approach this question, and this post is just one of the ways that I have been thinking about answering it. When people talk about online privacy, what do they mean? Most “Privacy” concerns seem to fall into the general buckets of: Will I be bothered by people trying to sell me stuff? Will others think bad of me? Will my...

I’ve been very busy working towards launch at CrossroadsAngel.com, with participation in our first live event on July 9th at the Black Potatoe Music Festival in Clinton, NJ. It looks like (barring a meltdown of the development process) we’ll be ready to sign up our initial batch of members at the festival, and give away some branded merch.

In the greater schedule of my life, I don’t spend much time on these activities, but I try to be in the right place when it helps most.

In my last post I included the qualifier “with the possible exception of Princeton.” I’m going to upgrade that qualifier to, “with the certainty that Princeton…” After a networking meeting I went to last week, my thoughts on the whole suburban entrepreneur issue in NJ are starting to change.