Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
I wrote about the last American WWI veteran, Frank Buckles, in a post last year. When you read about these men you can’t help but realize that our modern world really is pretty young. Modern transportation, communications, energy, and of course high tech are all inventions of the 20th century; it must be extraordinary to [...]
I just read a very interesting op-ed about the opportunities and hazards of cloud computing and it resonated with me on several levels. Some are in plain view. If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you. For example, if your favorite music is rented or authorized from [...]
The economics part is in first 1:20. Via @GregorMacDonald
First of all, the Financial Times is a true gem of a news organization and they have a really smart team of folks working on the digital side. Bottom line, I have a ton of respect for that team. There is much good insight and advice found in this interview however it is obscured by [...]
Twitter makes sure that they throw in the obligatory “this ain’t about Google Apps” disclaimer when actually it pretty much is. This attack had nothing to do with any vulnerability in Google Apps which we continue to use. [From Twitter Blog: Twitter, Even More Open Than We Wanted] If Twitter were using something other than [...]
Better password inputs, iPhone style. Please, please, please, let’s stop pretending that password masks do anything to improve security. They don’t, we know it, and yet we continue to blindly adhere to a user experience that is overwhelmingly negative for people. How the AP fails to get search and SEO (again). Danny takes apart the [...]
There is a lot of talk in California right now about how the budget crisis will affect education investments, and I write investments very deliberately because education spending is a form of investment that is supposed to yield future returns. It’s evident that we’ll have to deal with the budget hole by cutting education spending [...]
My dog is pathetic, seriously pathetic, but this is definitely evidence that he is not at all too happy about having more babies in the house.
Vinnie raises two very good points about Moore’s Law and consumer vs. enterprise scale, all in response to Chris Anderson’s contention that the tech industry preoccupies itself with managing scarcity when it should be taking advantage of an abundance of capacity and encouraging waste. I want to pick on Moore’s Law for a minute, which [...]