NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The website-attacking group "Anonymous" tried and failed to take down Amazon.com on Thursday. The group's vengeance horde quickly found out something techies have known for years: Amazon, which has built one of the world's most invincible websites, is almost impossible to crash.

...a DDoS attack, short for distributed denial-of-service -- and it's hard for most websites to defend against. The attack... Continue reading »

We hosted a great Introduction to iPhone Development on December 4th and it's a crime we're just now posting about it! Tons of people came out to soak up the knowledge and our awesome Graphic Designer, Roozbeh Meghdadi, managed to photograph nearly the entire event.

We are making the transition to become a part time... Continue reading »

I found an interesting article in Fortune discussing how investment returns are taxed. The discussion is around how to tax gains from investments -- should they be taxed as ordinary income, or as capital gains (which is a lower tax rate)?

I'm a huge fan of Warren Buffett, and he's made his opinion on this matter very clear -- his effective... Continue reading »

Chris was doing some rough benchmarking on Mongo for a project and we noticed some interesting trends in the data that are worth sharing. This is all super rough data, but the goal here is to show performance numbers from a quick benchmark, the importance of indices in Mongo, and the value of RAM. While a statistics geek would throw a fit -- and would... Continue reading »

A/B testing is useful stuff. Everyone agrees on it, but most people don't get the opportunity to do it. Sometimes there's engineering concerns where the coders are working on a big feature push, but the product person wants to do some more testing.

Here's a post from Dan Siroker, the Director of Analytics for Obama's very successful internet campaign, explaining the mechanics and... Continue reading »

Great article from Mass High Tech talking about implications of decisions that entrepreneurs make regarding term sheets and options. Find out why generously granting someone a large percentage of your company might have them cursing your name when the next year rolls around:

That means if the company wants to add another founder and give her a third of the equity,... Continue reading »

This month marks our two year anniversary loaning to small entrepreneurs worldwide through the Kiva "loans that change lives" program.  It's been a great payoff seeing so many people succeed and pay us back so we can lend again.  We started with only four loans in December of 2008 and now have over 160 loans, totaling more than $4,000 lent.

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