Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
This is funny even though it goes into a topic I find no humor in, 9/11 Truthers. The History Channel ran a program tonight called 9/11 Conspiracy: Fact or Fiction. The concept is that, as was the case with Pearl Harbor and the assassination of President Kennedy, conspiracy theories become part of the historical record, [...]
I was cleaning out my home office today and have some books to giveaway, first person to leave a comment gets it. Check back next monday for another chance. Sorry, it’s too expensive to send international so U.S. only. “Outside Innovation: How Your Customers Will Co-Design Your Company’s Future” (Patricia B. Seybold)
I am continually impressed at how youth oriented entertainment integrates a great diversity of media types and strategies with great success. By now you have likely read or heard about the blowout success that Disney’s High School Musical 2 has had in recent days. Integrating promotional merchandising and retail tie-ins (300 products and Wal-Mart and [...]
The San Jose company reported earlier this year that registered users of the service had more than doubled to 196 million people and that Skype was profitable for the first time. Read this one sentence in a report about the Skype service outage and I was stunned. 196 million users (3% of the world’s population) [...]
Mike Deaver really was a giant among giants, one of those very rare people that had the effect of recalibrating what it meant to be great in a particular industry. Recent years have seen many of Ronald Reagan’s inner circle pass away, yet their influence is still shaping the political landscape today. Deaver passed away [...]
Dave Sifry is stepping out of the CEO role at Technorati and John Furrier is stepping down at PodTech. I don’t have any insightful comments about CEO’ship at either company, or really anything about the current status of either company. My comments are, perhaps, unique because I count both of these men as my friends, [...]
UPDATE: I have written several followup posts detailing my Clear experience. http://snurl.com/2282y I coughed up $99 and joined Clear… retinal scanning…. cool. Clear security lanes will be available at SFO in September, already operating at San Jose Mineta. Travelers who join the Clear Registered Traveler program are pre-screened for security and provided with a biometric [...]
A silly measure by SF Supervisor Chris Daly to call for an end to the Blue Angels appearance at Fleet Week (a San Francisco tradition bigger than rice-a-roni) was rejected by a committee. The committee voted 2-1 to table the measure, authored by Supervisor Chris Daly, effectively killing it. But Daly, who cited public safety [...]
The U.S. dollar is surging against foreign currencies, a consequence of the spreading credit crisis that started in U.S. subprime fixed income securities. As this article points out, the irony is that when times are good the dollar weakens and when seas get rough foreign investors come back in to the safe harbor that U.S. [...]
My Delicious widget (over there —->) is acting strangely. In Firefox it has not updated to reflect my current delicious bookmarks in a couple of weeks, but in Safari I get a couple of the newer bookmarks but not all of them. This is one aspect of widgets that troubles me, there is little in [...]