Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Nokia acquiring Navteq is huge, I’m surprised there wasn’t more of a discussion about it. With this move Nokia is going all in with location-based services as a competitive differentiator and if my experiences are any indicator this is a good move. If you are a handset manufacturer you can’t compete on platform anymore but [...]
This week I have a copy of an interesting book that a publisher sent to me. I will admit that I didn’t read the entire book, but that’s not uncommon for me so don’t read (no pun intended) too much into that statement. I did find the book to be an easy read, almost as [...]
Serena recently reappeared with a slick campaign promoting business mashups. If you have read my blog for any period of time you will know that I am huge fan of mashups for business use, and increasingly I am seeing that mashup proponents are promoting the notion that RSS feeds are a critical enabler in these [...]
eBay shareholders can only hope that Skype housecleaning doesn’t stop here. The Skype acquisition never made sense strategically, and one reason Skype has struggled, we think, is that it is just a distraction to eBay (which needs desperately to focus on its core commerce business). eBay should immediately sell what’s left of Skype to Yahoo, [...]
I was at the airport this morning waiting for my flight and the gate agent asked for people to volunteer for a later flight. That got me to thinking about the models that airlines must have to figure out the right amount of overbooking. In other words, they know how many seats they are selling [...]