Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
First and foremost, Denver International’s wifi network isn’t free, they sell big banner ads that run in your web browser while you are using it. Microsoft was sponsoring it when I tried it, in fact you had to watch a 30 second spot before the network would actually load, so it’s more accurately described as [...]
The thing about this that is interesting to me is not that print or broadcast is declining but rather their audience is shifting to another format that the user controls yet major brands (like newspapers and broadcast networks) are exquisitely well positioned to take advantage of. Just like NBC expanded into several distinct cable channels, [...]
Here’s just one more reason why government should stay out of the business of providing services. If SF sunk these turbines in the Bay it is estimated, by the study that SF itself commissioned, that the cost per megawatt hour would be as much as eleven and a half times higher than PG&E’s retail electricity [...]
Whenever I run into a captcha I wonder what the effect is on participation when it is conceivable that a significant percentage of internet users will abandon the effort after a few failed attempts. It’s not uncommon that I will have to enter captcha text 2-3 times before succeeding (typepad seems most problematic for me). [...]