Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
What’s holding RSS back, asks Rubel, the answer is simple: R S and S. Nobody outside of a minority group of self-described geeks will use an RSS client or online reader. I know our numbers and I know what Bloglines and Google Reader do in terms of daily users. It’s no more than half a [...]
I read this resignation letter that has been sent around lately with mixed feelings. On one hand I admire the accomplishment of someone who walks away with success, as quitting and quitting while ahead are different things altogether. Recently, on the front page of Section C of the Wall Street Journal, a hedge fund manager [...]
I wrote a couple of posts about Blu-ray that emphasized the last war aspect of the technology and ignored where consumers would ultimately be getting their entertainment from, the internet. It will do okay but for Sony and the content owners banking on it, Blu-ray will be a disappointment. Analyst Roger Kay predicts a “dramatic” [...]
We have experienced a lot of success with our NetNewsWire application on the iPhone, and like all good things in business it lent itself to a series of “what if” discussions internally, the result of which was what I am writing about today. With NewsGator’s native iPhone Apps your brand and content are just a [...]
We’ve been hearing from practically every car manufacturer that they will be releasing plug-in electric models of popular cars. Enough with the announcements, we need actual sellable cars in dealerships. Instead, we have Volt in 2010 (and it’s arguably a pretty significant development that is coming in on schedule), Toyota is dragging their feet on [...]