Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Crikey, I refuse to believe this wasn’t invented in America (most certainly at 3am after a long night of drinking).
It’s funny to think about all the ways you can hate interactive voice response systems, here is one specific issue: "Please enter your 16 digit account number followed by the pound sign" Well if they know the expected response is a 16 digit number then why make me press the 17th digit, the # sign?
I met Lunarr’s founders Toru Takasuka and Hideshi Hamaguchi a few weeks ago and said I would write something about their new service when it launched last week. As is often the case I was sidetracked on some other business so I didn’t get a chance to write, but I did want to follow up [...]
"There’s a bifurcation happening in the Boston venture capital world: Some firms blog, and some don’t. And the divide isn’t just about being hip to the latest trend. It signifies an important shift in the way VC firms interact with entrepreneurs." The premise of this article is kind of silly, it’s a "you are with [...]
A few months ago Steve Jobs told the music industry that they should give up DRM. Today Apple is defending it’s right to lock content, in this case the software on the iPhone: Users who make unauthorized modifications to the software on their iPhone violate their iPhone software license agreement and void their warranty. The [...]
I forgot to do the book giveaway last week. Sorry. This week I am giving a way a copy of “An Army of Davids” to the first person who comments, and as usual, I have to restrict this to U.S. or Canada only because of the shipping costs. “An Army of Davids: How Markets and [...]
I tried my best to watch it, but honestly I got so frustrated by the evasiveness that I only watched parts. The one laugher had to be this answer: —On executions of homosexuals in Iran: "In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. We don’t have that like in your country. … In [...]
Using your Facebook profile to enhance your personal brand… I’ll go with this idea, quite often I look on FB after meeting new people, but take care in managing your network because it’s not about quantity anymore. “Facebook seems to be the hot social network these days that people of all ages are getting involved [...]
Heard on a TV commercial… "Call now and learn how you can rollover your IRA invested in the volatile stock market into California real estate!"
Here’s a pretty damn useful Firefox extension, Google Hotkeys. You can use the up/down arrows to navigate Google search results (as a side note, I tried Ask.com for almost a full month and I just couldn’t resist going back to google), but one feature that in itself is enough of a reason to install this [...]