Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
The consequences of this ruling are indeed significant, imagine a world where all those unused enterprise software licenses actually have residual value in a secondary market. Let’s say you didn’t use 30,000 Oracle database seats or 15,000 SAP CRM seats and now you can go out and sell them to another company at a discount. [...]
This is a very smart move by Babble Soft, the military family market is huge and word of mouth is potent, both ways. I can’t think of a better time to launch this promotion than the Memorial Day weekend. For those of you interested in trivia, Memorial Day was first observed in 1866 to commemorate [...]
The NYTimes Reader is available for the Mac. Great but I don’t get this entire initiative at any level. They position it as a way to enhance the reader experience but from my perspective it appears to be nothing more than a vehicle through which they can control access and charge a monthly fee. Has [...]
Twitter is responding to critics with an admirable degree of humility. I don’t think it’s a case of armchair quarterbacking, more a case of Twitter being in the “show me” penalty box that comes with having immense promise and goodwill, and simply not delivering on a key expectation. Twitter has, as a company, had one [...]
Wow, it’s been a busy week here at NewsGator central, today we announced a pretty cool feature in our client products for content recommendations called Collaborative Filtering. We are pretty hot on this idea of filtering content and providing recommendations based on the attention you give to your subscribed content. This includes not just clicking [...]
“Senator Lieberman stated his belief, in a letter sent today, that all videos mentioning or featuring these groups should be removed from YouTube — even legal nonviolent or non-hate speech videos,” the statement said. “While we respect and understand his views, YouTube encourages free speech and defends everyone’s right to express unpopular points of view.” [...]
Baskin-Robbins is launching soft serve ice cream to, I guess, better compete with a resurgent Dairy Queen. In one of the more mystifying marketing plans I can recall hearing, they have pregnant celebrity Tori Spelling pitching the stuff to pregnant women today. I say mystifying because OB/GYNs consistently advise pregnant women that soft serve ice [...]
UPDATE: the text code is 97678 We released a really cool election 2008 campaign tracker for Windows Mobile today. Get the latest news, blogs, “fact checks” and more on the campaign and it’s all free. Super easy to get it, just text “ELECT” to 98999 to download the widget from washingtonpost.com
There are a growing number of apps that generate APML but it’s a manual process to export this data, just like OPML. We just added a feature to our Sync Engine that enables a persistent APML URL that can be dynamically consumed by applications, and because this is your data, you decide if it’s public [...]