Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
I love QR codes… it gives me something to do with the barcode scanner on my Evo. And occasionally they perform a function that is actually useful. A few weeks ago I started poking around and trying out different apps for creating my own QR codes and, surprisingly, it turned out to be a lot [...]
I am really in awe of how good our marketing team is…
I read a fantastic expose in the LA Times over the weekend about the Los Angeles Community College District’s impractical green energy plan and the money wasted pursuing politically popular policies that proved unachievable and wasted millions of dollars – taxpayer dollars – that could have been spent on students. But Eisenberg’s enthusiasm obscured an [...]
Arment’s more traditional take is built largely on the idea that if he puts out a good product, there’s no shame in asking customers to pay for it. And the more they pay, the less he needs to rely on outside investors. Arment said many developers are of the mindset that they need to amass [...]
Now like never before, transparency is allowing for a shift of power from corporations to the people. – SXSW Agenda What a crock of shit… if anything the regulatory actions that were supposed to lead to more transparency have only created more opaqueness. Has SarbOx created more financial transparency or reduced the prevalence of corporate [...]
Cross posted at Social Studies Yesterday the NYTimes came out with a story outlining how younger generations are moving away from blogging to social networks such as Twitter. The Internet and American Life Project at the Pew Research Center found that from 2006 to 2009, blogging among children ages 12 to 17 fell by half; [...]