Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Last week on sandhill.com there was an op-ed piece by Guy Smith titled “Is Enterprise Software Doomed?“. Guy’s piece had a dramatic title but the conclusions reached in the piece were pretty sound, essentially that enterprise software wasn’t doomed but rather experiencing a rebirth of sorts at the hand of a number of interesting trends [...]
Was interesting to see that Softbank and Patricof invested $5m in Huffington Post, a liberal blog network. On top of that, Elevation Partners took a stake in Forbes, another sign of Silicon Valleys rise to prominence in new and old media. Technorati Tags: Forbes, Huffington Post
Zoli has a bunch of links on the AOL gaffe (the most recent one) where they mistakenly put up a bunch of search history data for download. I know there are a lot of people that are genuinely concerned about privacy issues and the amount of data that search companies accumulate, but I have to [...]
Ismael is organizing a conference on Office 2.0 for Oct. 12-13. If you are at all interested in this topic this will be the place to be come October. IT|Redux » Office 2.0 Conference Registration: As promised last week, we are ready to receive early registrations for the first Office 2.0 Conference, which will take [...]
This is a fascinating project. A group of homing pigeon fanciers in Southern California developed, on their own, a “bird backpack” with pollution sensors, GPS, and GSM radio. This backpack is then strapped to the pigeons who fly around and collect data and transmit is back to base as SMS messages every 60 seconds. The [...]