Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
I had a meeting at Yahoo on Friday afternoon. It was like the other 1,835 meetings I’ve had there over the years, it also won’t produce anything meaningful. What struck me about the meeting was how little energy there is on that campus, it’s a dreadful place to be, even if just briefly. The other [...]
When we put our home theatre in I became obsessed with cables for the simple reason that you can easily spend as much on cables as all your equipment. Through one of the audio forums I found Blue Jeans Cable and had high quality speaker, interconnect, and various other cables made to length for what [...]
Wish I saw this before I wrote my earlier post on Vista. And finally, Microsoft is rumored to be getting into the physical retail store game to counter the popular Apple Store, and Adam Frucci over at Gizmodo offers a Simpsonian take on what an MS-Store might look like: [From Amazon Current's Blog: Bites from [...]
I have a favorite application that I use on an almost daily basis, Rivalmap. I first started talking with Andrew Holt last year when their unfortunately named product called Competitious came out (btw they admit the naming mistake) and have stayed in touch with Andrew and co-founder Kris Rasmussen as the evolved the product. First [...]
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster took a lot of heat back in June 2007 when he predicted, three weeks before Apple even began selling the iPhone, that the company would be shipping them at the rate of 45 million a year by 2009. [From FORTUNE: Apple 2.0 Analyst: How Apple sells 45 million iPhones in [...]
UPDATE: LiveLeak has had a change of heart, Fitna is now available on their service and they have issued another statement. I commend LiveLeak for changing their position but have to question the intellectual honesty of the statemen, which says, to paraphrase, that they are unbiased yet personally offended by the film. Having them isn’t [...]
It would be easy to look at the plan Yahoo put out and suggest they are smoking crack. Seriously, if they could grow revenues to the degree that they are projecting in this economy, they are superstars in my book. Of course if they did I’d be inclined to suggest that Jerry Yang is actually [...]
14Mar
Posted by Jeff as Companies, Enterprise Software
Congratulations to Tom and the crew, this has been a long time coming. Rapt has been around for the better part of a decade and has it’s roots in enterprise supply chain management (Sun was their first customer), so it’s a great case study about how a management team can repurpose one solution to another [...]
It’s kind of interesting that this didn’t get more widely reported on yesterday, it is a fairly significant event when you consider the size of the company and the number of web sites and publications that the company operates, which is somewhere in the range of 900. Reed is not a company that gets a [...]
“It shouldn’t take a $54 million lawsuit to motivate Best Buy to address these issues,” she said. Her initial offer to settle for $2,100 has been withdrawn because her expenses have risen, including time spent filing a police report and consulting with lawyers about her case, she said. Concerns about identity theft also add to [...]