Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Now this is scarry… Google having your credit card details. Wonder if they will dare to call it a “beta”. Google Aims to Speed the Online Checkout Line – New York Times: The company is introducing Google Checkout today, a service that will allow users to make purchases from online stores using payment and shipping [...]
Traveling back from Germany today, so not much blogging. It’s been a rough week, I flew out on Tuesday for some meetings yesterday, which means I went right from the airport to my afternoon schedule and turned around this morning to come back. I had a really interesting day yesterday, which made my brutal travel [...]
I’ve been hearing a lot about Dabble DB lately, with some calling their application development capability lightning fast and rich while others have pointed to the data modeling as an example of a truly next generation web 2 development ideology. Whatever the reasons this company has captured the imagination of some people who see these [...]
I was at Stanford and saw this driving around. I’m pretty sure it was a motorcycle mated to a car suspension up front and a custom made body (obviously). It sounded like a motorcycle. Pretty cool, although the F-117 cockpit and the “fast-and-the-furious” wing in back are a bit much. UPDATE: okay, the back wing [...]
This is from a new blog that I have on my internal SAP network (sorry, behind the firewall use only) for SAP “voices” to take advantage of. It’s something new and quite honestly not for everyone, but I have some really strong internal personalities that are blogging on on it and I’m excited to see [...]
Reading this op-ed from former FBI chief Louis Freeh just made me mad. It soon became clear that Mr. Clinton and his national security adviser, Sandy Berger, had no interest in confronting the fact that Iran had blown up the towers. This is astounding, considering that the Saudi Security Service had arrested six of the [...]
It’s really too bad that MS has dropped WinFS, to be more specific they have opted to return it to being a database technology. To me the most interesting aspect of WinFS was the promise of have a user defined meta layer (tagging) on top of the file system. This would have created great opportunity [...]
It’s really a shame if Boeing pulls the plug on their inflight internet service. Here’s where I think they made a significant error, the service is only available on long haul flights because conventional thinking is that only on a long duration flight would you pay the access fee and only when people are paying [...]
Seems to me that one would have to miss more meals than just lunch in order to have a legitimate “hunger strike”. Saddam hunger strike doesn’t last long – Conflict in Iraq – MSNBC.com: Saddam Hussein ended a brief hunger strike after missing just one meal in his U.S.-run prison, a U.S. military spokesman said [...]