Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
A pilot’s laptop, filled with top secret security information was reported missing at Dulles Airport and the ripple effects were felt across the country. [From Pilot's Missing Laptop Causes Airport Security Scare|ABC 7 News] And critics talk about security concerns with hosted applications…
Dennis puts up a good post on the intersection of web 2.0 and the enterprise. O’Reilly actually talked about this in his keynote, that the enterprise is one of the 3 big themes he is focusing on, but I have to say that this segment will be a rude awakening for the 99.9% of companies [...]
So Web 2.0 Expo is wrapping up today and after spending all of Wednesday and Thursday there, I have a couple of thoughts. First of all, I have a love-hate with big conferences like this. On one hand there isn’t much intimacy or unscripted presentation, but on the other hand it’s very efficient because the [...]
I was thinking of this today was I head up to the Web 2.0 Expo in SF. Quite often we preoccupy ourselves with answering the simple question “what do I want…” in technical terms, as in more semantic web stuff, interoperable identity, and so on. What if we simply answer the what I want question [...]
Technology is supposed to get cheaper over time, right? In the history of enterprise software and desktop OS when has that been true? AWS is no doubt responding to competitive pressures, which indicates the market is working as it should, and this is a welcome development because anytime your costs drop you add dollars to [...]
I like home LED lighting but only for very specific applications, like counter lighting and for cabinets. The diffusion and color temperature of these lights is odd and they don’t get better as they warm up, like CFLs do. While this development is welcome, the chief business development guy just gave me an excuse to [...]
$4 a startling reality, how about $4.39 I paid today in SF. Longtime readers will recall that I started calling for reductions in gasoline and diesel taxes as early as May of 2006. “Once a nightmare scenario, $4 gasoline is now a very real possibility of becoming a summer staple,” the letter stated. “In some [...]
Erik Estrada, er I mean Bolivian President Evo Morales wants the UN to scrap capitalism as a way of saving the planet… I guess he believes that a central committee of senior party officials should determine the allocation of resources for the collective good. Oh yeah, that was tried and we got Chernobyl. Opening a [...]
Today I saw an advertisement for The Gilmartin Group, a San Mateo real estate company, that made my head turn. The voiceover began with: “Negative media confusion has created a buying opportunity…” and went on unconvincingly about how this is the best time to buy real estate yada yada yada, you could almost smell the [...]
The Aston Martin due to be used by James Bond in the latest film about the secret agent has been crashed into Italy’s Lake Garda. [From James Bond's Aston Martin crashes into lake - Telegraph] I just knew it was a mistake to let Q retire, they should have put him in that room with [...]