Intelligence: The Linux Connection
This is interesting, how the move to low cost commodity technology, in this case Linux, has resulted in the potential for far less privacy and data security.
There’s a lot of useful stuff available for the eavesdropping. Email, raw newsfeeds, entertainment broadcasts, government communications and so on. All this is an open secret in [...]
To 90,000 Twitter Followers in 30 Days
I don’t think this is such a good idea. What it leads to is artificial inflation of followers that disrupts algorithms for determining influence (yeah they are pretty weak right now but constantly improving). It also leads to the most popular profiles benefiting from the law of accelerating returns and that’s not the meritocracy that [...]
At Long Last: A Standard O/S For Cars
Let’s hope this is true. Automobiles are a platform for innovation for technology companies just as is the case with other tech platforms, but far from being open source or even documented, a lot of the inner control logic for automobile electronics has to be reverse engineered.
Standardizing automobile operating systems not only decreases the costs [...]
Hearst Threatens to Shut Down Chronicle
Lose $50m a year and still not profitable… sounds more like a startup than a 143 year old newspaper.
In a posted statement, Hearst said if the savings cannot be accomplished “quickly” the company will seek a buyer, and if none comes forward, it will close the Chronicle. The Chronicle lost more than $50 [...]
Thank You Chris Shipley
Today it was announced that my good friend Matt Marshall is taking over the executive producer position for the DEMO conference.
We all owe Chris Shipley a debt of gratitude for producing on of the best emerging technology events for the last 13 years. She has been tireless in her efforts and year over year she [...]
Wood Shavings
I just like the image, no message or meaning.
The Comical Lives Up to It’s Name
Hey what’s a few errors, right… I mean except for the numbers, why they took TARP money, how they used it, and misreporting the stability of Wells, he got everything else right.
Jon Carroll’s column Wednesday on Wells Fargo & Co. contained several inaccuracies: — The column reported that Wells lost $255 billion in [...]
Step up to the Trough
Want to see what cities all around the country are salivating to spend your taxpayer money on once the spendulus bill is signed into law? My favorite is the Boulder, CO request for $6m to convert 60 hybrid vehicles to plugins… zero jobs created and at a cost of $100,000 per car.
StimulusWatch.org was [...]
Lincoln’s Birthday
Lot’s of commentary about Abraham Lincoln today in light of President Obama’s election. One of my favorite retrospectives of Lincoln is this video because it has great images of Lincoln’s time and the story told is accurate on many levels which reminds us all that leadership is not about popularity but about conviction of purpose [...]
Techrigy SM2 – Social Media Monitoring
Early last year Rochester, NY based Techrigy launched SM2. Dubbed a social media monitoring service, SM2 is representative of a growing class of services that are going beyond Google Alert type filters to a comprehensive monitoring solution that aggregates content from a virtually unlimited number of network sources.
As an aside, Google News Alerts has really [...]
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