Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Right now, it only lists limited kids’ items, such as milk and hot chocolate, in a smaller size, while teenagers have the choice of adult-sized, and often heavily caffeinated, beverages. A 16-ounce Caramel Frappucino coffee drink, for example, has nearly three times the caffeine as a 12-ounce can of regular Coke or Pepsi. Quite honestly, [...]
A while back, at Mashup Camp, I saw a Plaxo Pulse demo and thought it was pretty cool. I have been meaning to get back on Plaxo since then but for whatever reason never got that to-do done. Until this weekend and now I can say that whatever past spamming sins Plaxo is guilty of [...]
Cap Gemini’s announcement of support for Google Apps is getting a lot of positive coverage, probably more aspirational than reasoned in many cases. What I mean for that is a significant portion of the market really wants Google to be successful with office apps in order to provide a lever to use against Microsoft. Whether [...]
Defrag is approaching, November 3-6 in Denver. The agenda is filling out impressively, as is the roster of speakers. I’m recommending this conference for a couple of reasons, the first and most important being that I know Eric Norlin, the organizer, puts on good events, and in the case of Defrag I like the focus [...]
Honest to god I don’t know why Microsoft thought it would be kosher to release a new version of Office with completely new file formats and then not support them on all their platforms. I use a Mac and can deal with .DOCX files with a converter that Microsoft put out, even though it is [...]