Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Fred is right: Cutting the price on the iPhone by $100200 a couple months after launch and pissing off everyone who was an early adopter. First of all, they should have come out and admitted that the iPhone was priced too high from the get go. The idea that in 2 months the manufacturing cost [...]
I am a big fan of diesel technology for passenger cars, and in a previous post about Mercedes/Audi/VW’s Bluetec technology I wondered about the use of diesel in hybrid configurations. This makes a ton of sense given that gas hybrids just don’t work in large vehicles and trucks (don’t take my word for it, go [...]
"thinking Quechup are working hard for f**ktard of the year award. Still spamming." On Twitter from Dennis Howlett about Quechup, the latest spam engine masquerading as a social network. Maybe it’s not fair to call them a spam engine, but when you grab someone’s contact list and then without their knowledge spam it with invites, [...]
Brad Fitzpatrick posted something about social graphs that I bookmarked and kept thinking about, unable to put my finger on why I kept revisiting it. The social graph contains a combination of public nodes, private nodes, public edges, and private edges. The focus is only on public data for now, as that’s all you can [...]
I could not attend the Office 2.0 Conference that started yesterday and am I bummed. The reason for my absence will be revealed in a post on Monday, but for now let me say that this is one of the pre-eminent conferences of the season because Ismael comes at it from the perspective of a [...]