Here is a series of blog exhange that I've found interesting. Let me put the timeline here.

Mr. Jason Calacanis, an entrepreneur and CEO of Mahalo, has posted a blog entry on tips to save money in a startup.

http://www.calacanis.com/2008/03/07/how-to-save-money-running-a-startup-17-really-good-tips/
 
Now there are some "interestng" tips and really take the saving money concept to the next level. A lot of Silicon Valley companies are probably doing these activities to thier employees. Though I don't know if all companies are doing these because of the same reason, saving moving. I would have thought many companies do these things because of competiting for talented engineers.The post is certainly educational.

Though one tip in the original post may have started a follow-up story from TechCrunch. The particular tip is “Fire people who are not workaholics…. come on folks, this is startup life, it’s not a game. go work at the post office or stabucks if you want balance in your life. For realz.” Mr. Calacanis has later updated this tip to a softer tone...

Any way, here is the TechCrunch reactions:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/07/calacanis-fires-people-who-have-a-life/

After the TechCruch's post, Mr. Calacanis has responsed back with another post explains his thoughts:

http://www.calacanis.com/2008/03/07/can-you-have-a-life-and-work-at-a-startup-company/

If I ever start a startup, I think the tips are good reference (with good intentions of course). One of the important things I learn is blogging is really PR work, and it can go either way. "With great power comes great responsbility -Spidy"...

Update 08.03.08 4:49pm The story is still going:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/08/startups-must-hire-the-right-people-and-watch-every-penny/

-W 

iPhone SDK is out. I really want to test drive it... First when I heard that you need a Mac to do development, I thought, no problem, I have a MacBook. Then when I read the fine prints... I will need 10.5 MacOS (Leopard) to run the SDK, when I am still on 10.4 (Tiger). An Leopard update is $129 currently... I guess I have to suck it up to have a taste of the SDK. Could this be another smart business move to force the Leopard sales?

Any way, it seems like techcrunch has posted an article on limitations of the iPhone SDK. I will just let you read it yourself:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/07/iphone-sdk-some-of-the-details-arent-great/

There are some interesting questions in this articles...

Will Apple allow 3rd party application to buy MP3 songs from Amazon?

Can someone writes a mashup application and supplies location data from iPhone to Yahoo FireEagle (Yahoo's location framework)? What about to Google Map?

To be fair, this is the first SDK for their first mobile phone. The features of this "first" SDK is quite well thought out. The video tutorials in iTune U are professionally done.

What can I say... the competition is on! Let's get to work!

-W