iPhone = Misogyny
Further evidence that we have become a society of the offended… the iPhone was designed to not use a stylus therefore Apple must hate women. Seriously, at one point did long fingernails become an ADA issue and is Ms. Currie unaware that there are other mobile phones she can buy that function better for her [...]
Behavioral Advertising
If Charter offered this as an opt-in service, I’d sign up (although I’m not a Charter customer!) because anything that makes advertising more useful and relevant is something I’d jump on.
Cable and high-speed Internet service provider Charter Communications (Nasdaq: CHTR) Latest News about Charter Communications will not move forward with plans to test [...]
Visions of the Future
I laughed out loud while reading this, then got really anxious as I thought about this not being exceptional these days. Hell if they really want to have the lowest environmental impact, hold the convention in Second Life.
As the Mile High City gears up to host a Democratic bash for 50,000, organizers are [...]
Cleaner Jet Engines
This is great news. Technology people like to point to clean tech solutions that are literally decades away from mass market because they are the more intellectually interesting problems to tackle. Environmental zealots think the government should just start banning anything that emits exhaust, throwing us back to the Neolithic period somewhere between the Copper [...]
How Convenient
The Viacom MTV Networks channel — once known for round-the-clock music videos and now home to a host of reality shows — says it will now take political ads, though only from political candidates Barcack Obama and party political committees the DNC, not from third parties Republicans.
[From MTV to Rock the Vote, Will Now Accept [...]
Citizen Bill
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 [...]
The Death of Stealth Mode
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 [...]
HuffPo wants to be a newspaper
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 [...]
A Response to Fred Wilson’s Talk at Widget Web Expo
Josh was asking me about the Fred Wilson keynote at WidgetWebExpo and I asked him to send me a list of questions that I would respond to and he could post. Here ya go.
Last week, Jeff Nolan — VP of NewsGator’s SaaS divison — attended the WidgetWebExpo in NYC. There, Fred Wilson gave [...]
No Tax Incentives for Cleantech
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 [...]
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