Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Microsoft’s Windows juggernaut is collapsing as it tries to support 20 years of applications and becomes more complicated by the minute. Meanwhile, Windows has outgrown hardware and customers are pondering skipping Vista to wait for Windows 7. If Windows is going to remain relevant it will need radical changes. [From Gartner: Windows collapsing under its [...]
It’s frightening to see that smart people, e.g. judges, can’t seem to figure out how the web works yet are responsible for establishing legal precedent and making laws. Even though meta tags are regularly ignored by search engines, and not visible to average site visitors, this ruling says that other company’s trademarks in you meta [...]
Very cool toys… my son loves toys that he can put together and modify, and I love the fact that he is exercising mechanical capabilities as a function of play. European toy companies have really neat stuff, too bad most of it never makes it to the U.S.
UPDATE: Jevon pointed out that the links require reg… I’ll check into that because I thought that these were all public. SAP Global Marketing invited a bunch of people to participate in a meatspace and virtual space community event this week. There’s lots of good stuff going on, indeed, I am finding the blog postings, [...]
Imagine what the adoption curve for books would be if the conversation about books dealt with typesetting and font intricacies and the compelling features of a particular kind of binding. Shirky has a remarkable ability to put a skewer through a million things and get to the essence of the broader question that isn’t even [...]
Heathrow’s Terminal 5 opened yesterday with a resounding thud that left travelers and employees stranded and BAA and British Airways officials red faced and shamed. This is as much a failure of man as it is the systems that have been designed and implemented. There is simply no excuse for employees not being able to [...]
Here’s are some cool services for slicing-and-dicing Twitter: TweetVolume : Enter a keywords and a graph will be built showing the frequency of the keywords. It’s great for seeing how often your company is referred to versus competitors or doing a buzzword trend analysis. TweetStats : Analyze your Twitter traffic. Apparently I am a Monday [...]
Just found this Twitter add-on for Ecto which tweets when I publish a blog post. Could FriendFeed be a subset of Twitter?
I’ve been using the Firefox v3 beta for the last couple of weeks to see how it behaved and I’m going back to Flock, which has been revved to version 1.1. The problem with Firefox on the Mac is twofold. First and foremost, it is still not a well behaved application in terms of memory [...]
Broadcasters should be very afraid. I’ve watched the quality of streaming video increase substantially in recent years and with the advent of exciting new technologies like Silverlight it is not beyond speculation to suggest that with the barriers lowering for new entrants to create and distribute compelling online video content and user experience that we [...]