Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
The inspiration for this post was the observation that the rate of innovation around Google services is much higher than Microsoft, and very little of it appears to be done by Google. Here’s the list of Top 10 Gmail Hacks and Tips and the Gmail Smart Vacation Responder and the Complete Collection of Gmail and [...]
I read a lot of political and current event blogs, and for California stuff one of my favorites has always been the Sacramento Bee columnist Daniel Weintraub, who authors the excellent blog California Insider. I was disheartened to read today that he is moving his blog over to Capitol Alert, which is a $500 a [...]
Stanford’s chemistry department has a really interesting project that follows the pioneering seti@home initiative. You download a client app to become part of a massive distributed computer that analyzes how proteins fold with the goal of understanding complex diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and cancer. Folding@Home Distributed Computing: What is protein folding and how is folding [...]
FOWA Notes: The Magic formula – Mike Arrington | Muffin Research Labs by Stuart Colville: 3. Data and service protability (teqlo, ning and pipes) Frees user data, no-ones figured a way to make money out of this yet. But they will Obviously we agree that this is a great opportunity for 2007. Mike was right [...]
This weekend I had a rental car, a Ford Escape Hybrid from Hertz. I was actually pretty excited to try it out, even though I did not request it in advance, to see what it was like. Overall the experience was positive but I did notice a couple of interesting quirks. First and foremost, the [...]
When I was with SAP Ventures we invested in Ping Identity with the very simple investment thesis that 1) identity technologies were on a path to identity federation simply to reduce the complexity that users have to deal with across systems, and 2) the line between consumer and enterprise technology was blurring as business users [...]
Publish an RSS feed? If so, Google wants to help you make it more popular by suggesting best practices for feed publishers. The section about how Google is counting feed subscribers is most interesting. Google Reader – Common Questions: Users on the web increasingly consume their favorite content through feed reading applications. If you’re a [...]
Obviously the benefits far outweigh the risks, but this is case in point that the sword has two edges. Murphy’s Law: How Microsoft Vista Helps Terrorists: Rarely does sensitive information on missing laptops find its way to the wrong people. The exception is the missing laptops in a combat zone. There, too many people know [...]
This story on Bloomberg had the standard issue dryness for what is really a fascinating story unfolding in Venezuela. This is what the economist interviewed for the story had to say about Chavez’ plan to control inflation by lopping 3 zeros off the currency. “He has a funny understanding of the problem,” Alberto Bernal, a [...]