Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
The DNC and RNC were exciting events for us, newspapers really grabbed on to the notion of feed aggregation and immediacy as a service for their readers. We aggregated over 200 political blogs, wire service content and Qik streaming video direct from the conventions. The Post and Pioneer Press might have been helped by widget [...]
This is actually a bigger deal than simply an inconvenience. Many media publishers are now relying on RSS to not only take inbound content but also publish it out and when latency is introduced in the plumbing it creates larger problems for publishers. RSS is an infrastructure and when providers of the services fail to [...]
If you are into such things, there is an extraordinary boat sailing into SF Bay today tomorrow, the Maltese Falcon owned by Tom Perkins. While an awkward week to have such a conspicuous display of wealth, I think you have to look beyond the money to see this boat for the technical achievement that it [...]
Rep Eric Canter (R-VA) was asked by Minority Leader Boehner to lead a working group in the House on the Wall St. bailout plan. Here’ the working principles they released last night. Common Sense Plan to Have Wall Street Fund the Recovery, Not Taxpayers Rather than providing taxpayer funded purchases of frozen mortgage assets, we [...]