Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Enough has been written about HP acquiring Palm that I don’t think it’s that newsworthy today… however something has been bouncing around my hamster cage since reading the coverage yesterday that I’m not ready to let it go. Maybe this isn’t about smart phones at all? Put another way, of course this is about smart [...]
My friend, and I use that term in its true confidant sense, Susan Scrupski was recognized by Fast Company magazine for being one of the most influential women in technology. I am very proud of her for this recognition but more so for all the hard work she had devoted herself to which this list [...]
27Apr
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This one sentence sums it up: After months of denying any technical problems with its SmartMeter program, PG&E publicly detailed a range of glitches Monday affecting tens of thousands of the digital meters. [From PG&E details technical problems with SmartMeters - San Jose Mercury News] This is the first time that PG&E has publicly acknowledged [...]
Salesforce.com and VMware announced a significant joint service called VMforce that allows developers to run Java applications inside Salesforce’s cloud. I would encourage you to read Salesforce’s blog announcement on this as it is quite detailed with regard to what it is and more importantly, why it matters. From where I sit this seems pretty [...]
- Here’s an update on the potential for hydrogen in energy production. Nothing terribly surprising but it does sum up the major hurdles that are being crossed in developing this technology. – Facebook may not be Skynet but it is getting smarter and that’s bad for Google… yeah, it’s a parallel web that allows data [...]
Today Facebook suggested that I write on my friend Jeffrey Walker’s wall… which made me sad because Jeffrey died last year after a long struggle with cancer. I clicked on his Facebook profile and sure enough, lot’s of his friends have been leaving messages as if he were still with us, and it was nice [...]
The announcement that Salesforce.com is acquiring Jigsaw caught my attention for a couple of reasons. Jigsaw’s unique Wikipedia-style crowd-sourcing model delivers the world’s most complete, accurate and up-to-date business contact data The combination of Jigsaw and salesforce.com will allow companies to easily find, purchase and manage data that is seamlessly integrated with their CRM [...]
Google has been a remarkable company to watch over the years, operating as a pure product company that reflected Microsoft in it’s prime, which is just to say when Microsoft could make or break a new market by simply introducing a new product. Google also adopted Microsoft’s strategy for empowering product managers with great and [...]
Groupon is getting a lot of attention for their latest round of funding, which values the company “above $1 billion”. Groupon features a daily deal with a huge discount on a wide range of things–from spas to skydiving–in dozens of U.S. cities, including Chicago, Boston, New York and San Francisco, for large groups of potential [...]
Last week I took advantage of the opportunity to visit with NetSuite during their annual user partner conference held here in San Francisco. I wasn’t expecting anything earth shattering, if only because this company has been around for a long time now, 12 years to be exact and probably as well known for it’s largest [...]