Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
It’s frightening to see that smart people, e.g. judges, can’t seem to figure out how the web works yet are responsible for establishing legal precedent and making laws. Even though meta tags are regularly ignored by search engines, and not visible to average site visitors, this ruling says that other company’s trademarks in you meta [...]
This is why I am skeptical of any “public safety” argument when it comes to red light cameras. There is no evidence despite repeated studies that traffic cameras make intersections any safer, yet there is ample evidence to suggest that cities other motives for installing them. Six U.S. cities have been found guilty of shortening [...]
Very cool toys… my son loves toys that he can put together and modify, and I love the fact that he is exercising mechanical capabilities as a function of play. European toy companies have really neat stuff, too bad most of it never makes it to the U.S.
UPDATE: Jevon pointed out that the links require reg… I’ll check into that because I thought that these were all public. SAP Global Marketing invited a bunch of people to participate in a meatspace and virtual space community event this week. There’s lots of good stuff going on, indeed, I am finding the blog postings, [...]
Imagine what the adoption curve for books would be if the conversation about books dealt with typesetting and font intricacies and the compelling features of a particular kind of binding. Shirky has a remarkable ability to put a skewer through a million things and get to the essence of the broader question that isn’t even [...]
Protecting the Internet from a terrorist hijacking can’t be done by government alone, he said. The homeland security chief called on Silicon Valley to send some of its “best and brightest” to Washington to work on the effort. [From Security chief calls on valley expertise for cyber-defense - San Jose Mercury News] If you want [...]