http://www.ivanism.com/RSS.xml Rants from the Ivanator en-us Copyright (c) 2005-2008, Ivan Gevirtz, All Rights Reserved. webRSS@siaxx.com http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/WereHiring.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/WereHiring.html webRSS@siaxx.com We're Hiring -- I am now the CTO of a very promising seed stage startup called UpCompany, and we're hiring. Here are some of the positions I'm looking to fill. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/MyFirstPatent.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/MyFirstPatent.html webRSS@siaxx.com My First Patent -- On my 35th birthday, I discovered that I achieved immortality. My name will live forever with the publication of my first patent. CRUSH was invented on 9/23/2005, submitted as a provisional on 10/24/2006, and the full disclosure application filed on 10/23/2007. It takes about 6 months for WIPO to publicly disclose the invention, so it is finally online! "System and Method for Establishing a Peer-to-Peer Connection" is the official name for CRUSH -- Connection Reliability Using Stream Handoff. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/WereHiringv1.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/WereHiringv1.html webRSS@siaxx.com We're Hiring v1 -- I am now the CTO of a very promising seed stage startup called UpCompany, and we're hiring. Here are some of the positions I'm looking to fill. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/RecruitmentCulture.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/RecruitmentCulture.html webRSS@siaxx.com Recruitment Culture -- Employees are a company's most important asset , indeed. But how does a company find and retain the best? A corporate recruiting culture is the key to a virtuous cycle of hiring. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/OthersOnline.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/OthersOnline.html webRSS@siaxx.com Others Online -- Others Online provides a people matching service that follows users across the Internet. Clique provides a comprehensive suite of tools enabling users rich communication capabilities. Together we can enhance the value of our product offerings and monetize them via highly targeted advertising revenue. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/IncrementalRevenue.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/IncrementalRevenue.html webRSS@siaxx.com Incremental Revenue -- Clique's strategy has been to go after huge wins. Having closed a 10 year deal with Comcast, this approach has been amazingly successful. However, Clique still needs working capital to cover operating costs until revenue from Comcast is sufficient. Finding market opportunities to meet these revenue needs could yield other powerful benefits. Advertising revenue, via Audio Key or Others Online, may be the answer to our short term revenue needs. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/JezzieMannyCoreyDanaandth.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/JezzieMannyCoreyDanaandth.html webRSS@siaxx.com Jezzie, Manny, Corey, Dana and the triplets -- What is this one all about? http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/IntroducingKenSmith.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/IntroducingKenSmith.html webRSS@siaxx.com Introducing Ken Smith -- Ken Smith is our AudioKey guru. He and I have had a positive working relationship that spans almost 10 years. He also has an interesting internal blog here. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/FourBars.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/FourBars.html webRSS@siaxx.com Four Bars -- We should extend the 4 bars metaphor, commonly used by cell phones, to *each* individual buddy and their capabilities http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/ReallyReallySecure.NoReal.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/ReallyReallySecure.NoReal.html webRSS@siaxx.com Really, Really Secure. No, Really! -- Security or liability? http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/YeOldeGenericWebsiteSecur.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/YeOldeGenericWebsiteSecur.html webRSS@siaxx.com Ye Olde Generic Website Security Document -- AKA Clique Video Greetings Security http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/RealityVideo.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/RealityVideo.html webRSS@siaxx.com Reality Video -- Live video chat can be used to verify identity, constancy of identity, and approximate age, especially of those under 18. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/FreeLunch.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/FreeLunch.html webRSS@siaxx.com Free Lunch -- Free lunches could be a great opportunity for Clique! http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/BBCDynamo.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/BBCDynamo.html webRSS@siaxx.com BBC Dynamo! -- The BBC has a new service allowing readers to submit pictures or video via MMS or email. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/EmployeeLife.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/EmployeeLife.html webRSS@siaxx.com Employee Life -- Ideas for retaining employees and keeping them happy, in a virtuous cycle that builds geek chick. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/SoftwareOrganizationalTen.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/SoftwareOrganizationalTen.html webRSS@siaxx.com Software Organization Tenets -- Some tenets for building successful software organizations. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/TheMoneyShot.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/TheMoneyShot.html webRSS@siaxx.com The Money Shot! or That vid is MONEY! -- Paying users for content may be a way to differentiate Vlog Crazy in a way that entices new users and compels existing users to return to the site and its content. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/CRUSHOrganization.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/CRUSHOrganization.html webRSS@siaxx.com CRUSH Organization -- To properly execute on the CRUSH business plan, an agile team must be assembled. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/Insecurity.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/Insecurity.html webRSS@siaxx.com Insecurity -- There is no such thing as perfect security. However, with careful analysis, perfect security policy can be achieved. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/TheMostImportantThing.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/TheMostImportantThing.html webRSS@siaxx.com The Most Important Thing -- What is THE most important thing for a startup? http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/SinkorSwim.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/SinkorSwim.html webRSS@siaxx.com Sink or Swim -- A rant on media stream processing. Gives a nomenclature and an easy way to depict "filters" and how they are coupled. This is one of my most important and most technical pieces. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/net.coms.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/net.coms.html webRSS@siaxx.com net.coms -- The network effect is how AIM, eBAY, Craigs List, and My Space have managed to achieve near monopolies in their respective areas. The loss of the network effect is also why telco's today can't seem to make the vast profits they used to make. In some areas, such as Video Chat and Push To Talk (PTT) Cellular, nobody has managed to achieve the network effect. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/CRUSHExtensions.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/CRUSHExtensions.html webRSS@siaxx.com CRUSH Extensions -- CRUSH is more than a technology. It is a whole product line! http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/KingKontent.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/KingKontent.html webRSS@siaxx.com King Kontent -- How can Clique monetize King Kontent? Is content truly King? http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/MobileVideo.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/MobileVideo.html webRSS@siaxx.com Mobile Video -- A business proposition for aggregating mobile video clips. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/DevelopmentProcessTools.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/DevelopmentProcessTools.html webRSS@siaxx.com Development Process and Tools -- A bulleted list of stuff every development organization should have. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/IamHungry.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/IamHungry.html webRSS@siaxx.com I am Hungry -- http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/AgileXPSoftwareDevelopmen.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/AgileXPSoftwareDevelopmen.html webRSS@siaxx.com Agile Development -- notes from the trenches on key implementation aspects of agile development http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/LazyWork.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/LazyWork.html webRSS@siaxx.com Lazy Work -- http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/DriversforVideo.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/DriversforVideo.html webRSS@siaxx.com Drivers for Video and their Overlap with Mobility -- Who cares about video? Mobile Video? http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/AboutMe.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/AboutMe.html webRSS@siaxx.com About Me -- Who is that tall dude? http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/CodingStandards.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/CodingStandards.html webRSS@siaxx.com Coding Standards -- Coding Standards http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/UnitTesting.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/UnitTesting.html webRSS@siaxx.com Unit Testing -- Some thoughts on unit testing, and details of our unit testing toolkit, CppUnit. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/CRUSH.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/CRUSH.html webRSS@siaxx.com CRUSH -- Connection Reliability Using Stream Handoff -- CRUSH enables Clique to offer fast call setup and guaranteed connectivity without massive back end capacity. http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/WhyOpenSource.html http://www.ivanism.com/Articles/WhyOpenSource.html webRSS@siaxx.com Why Open Source -- thoughts as to why Clique should Open Source CVM and CVP