Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
I’m not a John McCain supporter but no one should underestimate the respect I have for this man. This video on his website tells an extraordinary story about an extraordinary man. I had no idea that he was on the flight deck of the Forestall during that terrible fire in 1967, and then amazingly transferred [...]
When Eliot Spitzer was attorney general of New York I remember his comments about Hank Greenberg and Dick Grasso as some of the most outrageous I had ever heard from a state level official supposedly concerned about justice. If Spitzer were the DA in a county in North Carolina pursuing some lacrosse players he would [...]
I have been interested in pricing strategies for a long time. Quite frankly, pricing is one of the most misunderstood topics in enterprise software and also probably the single most non-optimized part of our business. Even in the consumer world pricing has remained one of the biggest disrupters and will likely to remain so. However, [...]
As you may have noticed, I haven’t posted much these last few weeks. Aside from not finding much to be interested in with our industry in August, a traditionally slow month, I have also been tending to family matters and enjoying the waning days of summer. I am feeling energized and will resume my usual [...]
Last week I gave away a copy of Outside Innovation, this week is a good book on general business management. First person to comment gets it, check back next Monday for another chance. “Talent Is Never Enough: Discover the Choices That Will Take You Beyond Your Talent” (John C. Maxwell)
Today I visited the Fox Cemetery in Berkley, Massachusetts where my mother-in-law and first son are buried. It’s pretty humbling to read grave markers with dates that not only pre-date the Declaration of Independence, but do so by several generations. I can’t even imagine the fortitude and dedication of purpose required to survive, much less [...]
We’re planning some more remodeling at the casa, bathrooms this time around. As has been the case with previous projects, I obsess about every detail and in the case of bathrooms this is a problem because there are so many design and product decisions that have to be made, accomodating budget and space constraints while [...]
okay, this is funny… actually it’s more funny than the parody site that spawned it and that was funny to begin with. One problem: MSNBC’s article (since corrected) wasn’t exactly quoting the reverend’s personal blog at all: It took the passage from NewsGroper, a fairly popular parody site, which includes the words "Fake Parody Blogs" [...]
I’ve been using the newly launched Tafiti search service from Microsoft. Here’s a couple of observations: It’s beautiful, no question about that. Fast too. The underlying search engine feels less than Google, which in this day and age is the benchmark by which search is measured. I’d give it a Google .8 rating (a rating [...]
Spiceworks, in Austin is a provider of IT management software, their twist is that the software is free, paid for by advertisers and sponsors. First a little background, network management is a key basket of processes in the modern enterprise, including tracking of assets, help desk, troubleshooting, and monitoring. This is the meat-and-potatoes work that [...]