Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
This guy would be a fascinating dinner guest… And now what‘s happening in this narrative is that the Umma, the global population of Muslims, is going to unite. It’s going to rise up through a global guerrilla struggle. And in fact, Ayman al Zawahiri who’s primarily the major Al Qaeda ideologue, actually wrote a paper [...]
The real downside that this current political season is exposing is that candidates who are perpetually campaigning do things that are not in the best interests of the country, or even their constituency, but rather the best interests of the special interests that they are courting. But forget all that; Ms. Clinton objects that South [...]
There is one application category on the Mac that is surprisingly weak, blog editors. Windows users have Live Writer, and I’ve yet to meet someone using it who doesn’t love it. My primary tool has been Ecto, which is still the best editor hands down, but when I changed my blog templates a few months [...]
The downside is that typing is done by pecking on the screen with thumbs or fingers, something hardly anyone outside of Apple has experienced yet. “The tactile feedback of a mechanical keyboard is a pretty important aspect of human interaction,†said Bill Moggeridge, a founder of Ideo, an industrial design company in Palo Alto, Calif. [...]
Bart Decrem told me about Geni a while back, I finally had a chance to try it out. Simply put, it’s a family tree mapping service, however it’s much more significant because what is really happening is that you are building an online group out of your family contacts. The process of adding family members [...]
I saw a guy wearing this t-shirt the other day, made me laugh out loud. The fact that the guy wearing it looked EXACTLY like the comic book guy in The Simpsons may have made it funnier than it really was…
I struggle with PowerPoint. It’s an essential tool in my business but I’m never satisfied using it, which to be clear means that I’m never satisfied with the product I create with it as opposed to the application itself, which by my account is actually a pretty well designed app. I’ve tried Keynote, but my [...]
A while back I wrote a two paragraph post declaring email bankruptcy and in the weeks that followed I was really surprised by the level of interest in this topic. The post was included in Washington Post article, I was interviewed for a segment on CNN, and just last week Good Morning America called me [...]
"The viral loop in most social networks revolves around a user posting a widget to their page and having friends see their page. The viral loops for Facebook (there are multiple) revolve around the news feed, the mini-feed and the invite request."- VentureBeat interview with RockYou I’m really interested in Facebook Developers for a couple [...]