Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
While I think pretty highly of the entire PBwiki as a whole, there’s one feature I want to point out that is a great example of someone thinking about how an actual customer will use a feature and then making it work so that it fits the way they work. When I copy/paste a URL [...]
A rock is discovered in a mine in Siberia Serbia and no one can identify it, so they ship it to London where geologists test it and identify it’s elements but not what the mineral is. They do what all good researchers do these days, they google it… “Towards the end of my research I [...]
Fred Wilson did it yesterday, I’m filing it today. I have so many unread e-mails in my inbox that I can’t possibly get caught up. If you have sent me an e-mail in the last month and I have not yet responded, I apologize. I am now calling people rather than going through the all-too-typical [...]
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 [...]
40 Things That Only Happen In The Movies – That was funny: #17 If you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts, your opponents will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around you in a threatening manner until you have defeated their predecessor. #41 – 40 point text to [...]