Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Joe McKendrick points out an uncomfortable reality about web 2.0 and published APIs, namely that there aren’t that many of them relative to the number of web sites that could be offering them. This is something that we faced at Teqlo, which of course is built on the premise that these services exist and provide [...]
Here’s a viewpoint on the minimum wage you won’t like hear much about. Minimal effort | Free exchange | Economist.com: CEO’s who support higher minimum wages are not, as the media often casts them, renegade heros speaking truth to power because their inner moral voice bids them be silent no more. They are by and [...]
Told you so… I do admire their attempt to put the spin on it, suggesting that the loss is due to the price point being below manufacturing costs, neatly sidestepping the bigger issue that they had 300k unsold units after the pivotal Christmas shopping season, but hey they did “ship 1 million units” into the [...]
Mac users rejoice, you can now sync Google Calendar with Apple’s iCal app. Fellow Irregular Charlie Wood put SpanningSync into open beta today. I have a copy, it works great. It’s one thing to subscribe to a Google Cal, it’s a whole other thing to do 2 way sync. Technorati Tags: spanningsync
Flickr is finally forcing the switch from the “old skool” login system that pre-dated Flickr’s acquisition by Yahoo! with the Yahoo! (is it protocol to put the ! every time you type out that company name?) login system. Bummer, I resisted merging my flickr account with my yahoo account for the same silly reason that [...]
One of the most obvious applications for the “wisdom of crowds” treatment has to be competitive news clipping, and it’s a mystery to me why more companies like Competitious are not on the scene. News clipping services like Cogenz and Connectbeam are enjoying usage growth, and both of those have enterprise deployment options, but to [...]
This translates into a subsidy worth as much as $120 ($40 a month for unlimited t-mobile hotspot access if you are not a t-mobile subscriber). So basically, if you use the hotspots at Starbucks a lot, upgrading to Vista actually saves you $20 ($99 for the upgrade) assuming nothing else gets jammed up in the [...]
Waters is right to point to the sea shift that is underway at these large software technology companies, a shift away from big traumatic software upgrades to more frequent component bumps. The points that are often missed in these debates is that the focus on the customer obscures the fact that the companies themselves don’t [...]