Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
While the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco keeps arguing about who should own the free wifi network that Google and Earthlink are offering to build for all the residents of the City, and subsequently nothing is getting built, another company called Meraki is going out and actually building it. On a serious note, there [...]
“The business processes that’s not even called Business Process. The process orphans. The nuisance. The stuff that actually take most of our time. What I’d call Business Practices.” Business process is how other people define the jobs they don’t do… business practices (aka tasks) are what people actually do when they work. Business practices are [...]
But is the rise of philanthropic fashionistas decked out in Red T-shirts and iPods really the best way to save a child dying of AIDS in Africa? No, but the pairing of celebrity and marketing is really about optics over substance. Want to save the world? Great, start in your own neighborhood one kid at [...]
I saw this at Demo 3 (?) years ago… that it’s coming out this late and is still fundamentally the same form factor is pretty disappointing. Nonetheless, at least it is one step closer to not being vapor status… but $2,000! Tags: vulcan flipstart, wireless, PDA
As I have written about on many occasions, I use Ecto to write my blog posts. I really like this application for it’s ease of use, additional features (like Amazon and iPhoto search and embed), and tags. Most of all, I like how Ecto handles images, both converting non-jpg formats to JPG and uploading the [...]