Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
The thing I love about this, aside from the man bites dog routine, is the fact that Bill Gates gets an urge to do something new in Windows and uses the product like a consumer would (except he can get immediate attention from support). Good for him. Of course he’s right about the usability… too [...]
Stealth mode is pointless because everyone has figured out that it’s faux scarcity with a PR objective. Just go into alpha release and skip the whole stealth mode shtick. If you’re starting a company and want to stay in “stealth mode”, make sure you understand the impact of your Form D filing and factor that [...]
Man does anyone else get chills at the thought of Huffington suggesting the only responsibility of journalists is to “ferret out the truth”? Who’s truth… she doesn’t say? If for not other reason the public’s trust in professional journalism has faltered in recent years exactly because too often they have done what Huffington suggests, present [...]
Count me among those not in favor of ANY tax incentives for hybrid or plug-in vehicles. While good intentioned, the only certainty is that they artificially inflate the price of vehicles and do so on the backs of taxpayers. Basically what happens is that auto manufacturers manufacture scarcity in order to ensure profit margins price [...]
Look out comScore, Nielsen, and Hitwise. Anytime a company like Google puts out a product that is functionally rich and does it for free, the companies that sell something similar are going to suffer. This happened when Google Analytics came out, it will happen here. What will be interesting to watch is how companies that [...]
This is neat. Too bad it can’t be embedded.
It’s hard to know who the bigger idiot is in this story… of course he could be a trend setter but first he needs to do a better job of marketing because from the way he describes it his life sucks and that’s not exactly a way to drive higher bids. A lovelorn Yorkshireman who [...]