Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
It is sad to read this quote at the end of a story about Pulitzer Prize winning author David Halberstam‘s death today in Menlo Park in an auto accident. Halberstam, who lived in NYC, was 73. "It’s been a wonderful life," he said. "Actually, when I think about my career I am sometimes stunned. I’m [...]
I really have no idea how this happened, at 784 members my MyBlogLog community is the 31st largest on that network. GigaOM is #32… I can’t best Om on pageviews, or quality of writing for that matter, but I do have more mybloglog community members. Woo-hoo! Actually, I’d rather have the page views and the [...]
I wrote about Harmony over a year ago… it’s absolutely criminal that something this interesting couldn’t get developed and into customer hands more quickly. Dan has a good post about this innovative product project. SAP doesn’t yet offer Web 2.0-style social networking capabilities in its solutions that tap into the wisdom of employees, partners and [...]
My friend Eric Norlin, with Phil Becker and Brad Feld, is putting on a conference in November called Defrag. Defrag is the first conference focused solely on the internet-based tools that transform loads of information into layers of knowledge, and accelerate the “aha†moment. Defrag is about the space that lives in between knowledge management, [...]
This from a recent report about health risks due to wireless technology: A recent authoritative Finnish study has found that people who have used mobiles for more than ten years are 40 per cent more likely to get a brain tumour on the same side of the head as they hold their handset; Swedish research [...]
The stock photo business has been under attack from web-based alternatives for some time. Digital Railroad and iStockPhoto have been offering disruptively priced professional stock images for quite a while now, and having a good amount of success doing it. A newer entrant into this market is Lucky Oliver, which despite having IMO a really [...]