Archive for April, 2007

30Apr

Changing Course

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

Yesterday was my last official day at Teqlo, I am now 1) focusing on other interests, 2) spending time with family, and 3) devoting myself to clean technology. Well, #1 and 2 for sure… I am just throwing #3 in because it’s so damn trendy. Teqlo is a fantastic concept and a potentially very disruptive [...]

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How to Beat the Market
Finally, knowing your President!
Two-question political quiz!
Early Industry Leaders
Read more on CLP HLDGS, Hong KONG&CHINA Gas, Cheung Kong (HLDGS) at Wikinvest

30Apr

Circulation

Posted by Jeff as Blogs, Social Media

I was looking at TechCrunch’s 368k feed subscribers badge when it occured to me that Mike’s blog (although it’s clearly much more than just a blog at this point) has a higher daily circulation than most newspapers in the country, indeed, even some of the major U.S. dailies have lower circulation numbers. Although, given the [...]

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Sequester Holding Americans Hostage
A Report from the Housing Front
Newspaper Paywalls
Read more on Newspapers at Wikinvest

30Apr

Are Digg Commenters Dumb?

Posted by Jeff as web 2.0

Okay, shameless inflamatory post title. The issue at hand is Dare Obasanjo’s post about Digg vs. Slashdot comment threads, and by extension the incentive system differences that each site uses. At first blush, the naive conclusion could be that Slashdot readers are more intelligent or at least more atticulate than Digg readers. However I just [...]

O’Reilly is looking for people to share their experiences using Amazon’s S3. Like Tim, I have heard a lot of anecdotes and am seeing businesses develop around Amazon’s cloud, like Digisense’s Onsite Manager appliance: The Digisense Service Delivery System gives you and your customers the power to securely access, backup, restore and manage critical data [...]

Gore Calls Canada Climate Plan a ‘Fraud’: Gore said the plan did not make clear how Canada would reach its 2020 emissions goal. He also criticized the plan for allowing industries to pollute more if they use emissions-cutting technologies while increasing production. You mean like buying carbon offsets?

29Apr

More Conspiracy

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

A gasoline tanker crashed and exploded on the interstate 80 to 880 interchange overnight, the resulting fire caused a section of the overpass to collapse. This elevated section of freeway is an older design with an exposed steel structure as opposed to a newer all concrete strcuture. In watching the news footage I thought about [...]

25Apr

Why Your Feedback Matters

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

We’ve been running a promotion to solicit feedback about Teqlo for about 6 weeks. This isn’t one of those feel-good-we-want-to-look-like-we-care-about-our-users things, we actually really need more eyes looking at what we are building. Here’s a real example from a meeting I had yesterday over at Laszlo Systems. I was demoing the start page function and [...]

25Apr

Linux Distro Timeline

Posted by Jeff as Open Source

25Apr

Beginner’s Guide to Twitter

Posted by Jeff as Innovation

I’m not a user but I know a lot of people are… I am really trying to understand the appeal. Here’s a good guide the sums up what the service is, how people use it, and why they like it. Tags: twitter

Alien Technology, the RFID company, raised a Series I… yeah, a Series I. That is $270 million in total venture capital. Amazing. Tags: Alien


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