Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Wifi has been banned at Lakehead University in Canada (somewhere) because the dean isn’t convinced it’s safe. That’s because president Fred Gilbert won’t allow it until he’s satisfied EMF (electric and magnetic fields) exposure doesn’t pose a health risk, particularly to young people. No word on whether they are banning booze, pot, or cigarettes, all [...]
I had a board of directors meeting last night for KIPP Bayview Academy, which for me is a fun board because it’s smaller than most and has a nice social element to it (everyone is around the same age, no egos, nice people). In one of the crosstalk conversations a comment was made about Zappos.com [...]
I was thinking that the title of Jeremy’s post should be “how to make sure everyone reads your post” but it’s certainly better the way it is now. On a serious note, it is interesting to watch how aggressively PR people have figured out blogs. I was talking to Mike Masnick a couple of weeks [...]
FreeCRM.com is an on-demand, web based CRM provider having a three year old track record of delivering on-demand CRM and has over 25,000 customers.The unbelievable offer of $14.95 per month is for their Professional Edition CRM. Amazingly, they actually do have a free version as well that doesn’t have outlook/blackberry sync and some additional features. [...]
I’d love to hear your thoughts on what the benefits of a pure SOA application framework are. While the technical benefits are important, of equal interest are the actual end-user business benefits for companies investing in this technology. Here’s a short off-the-top-of-my-head start to kick off the discussion. less disruptive updates and upgrades new functional [...]
Henry Wong from Diamond TechVentures sent me this invite to a wireless strategy forum being hosted at Pillsbury Winthrop on 3/8. Looks interesting.
This is a first, I received an email with a podcast pitch for a new investment opportunity: Wireless ISP, OneVoice Communications, is well on its way to converting Jamaica into the World’s first completely wireless-based nation. Through its wireless Internet service and proprietary booths and kiosks, OneVoice Communications will be able to “bridge the gap†[...]
Andy Hayler has a post on criteria and methods for evaluating vendors and it reminded me of something we used to do (and may still do, I really don’t know) for managing the process of evaluating customer requests for new features. The idea was simple, each customer has 100 votes (I don’t remember what the [...]
It’s too bad that Larry Summers got fired from Harvard, which is essentially what happened. I find the entire episode rather disturbing but couldn’t quite put my finger on why until I read this: Summers’ intrinsic aptitude comment, like the Mohamed cartoons, exposes the conflict between free inquiry and multiculturalism. Multiculturalism, whether practiced by Islamic [...]