In my travels around the Internet I recently came across the QuickPlayer for Blackberry. This Blackberry application allows me to listen to selected streamed podcasts from my phone (an 8700c in my case). The service is $7.95 per month and their content selection is limited. I signed up to try it out, but if I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I saw an article on Slashdot about a competition NASA sponsored to design a better space suit glove for use in space walks. I found this pull quote from the Discovery.com article of interest: NASA turned to cash-prize competitions in an effort to solve some of its technical problems with low-cost, innovative solutions. This is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s not well advertised on their web site, but Salesforce.com offers a free Personal Edition of their salesforce automation software. I signed up for an account a while back because I was curious what the package was like. Salesforce.com gets a lot of ink in the trade press for their innovative software as a service […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I finally finished Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. It took me a while to complete, as I have also been reading The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More and Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days in parallel. All three books are reccomended. I’m still reading The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The ever-helpful Amazon suggestion engine pointed me to Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything which I purchased and have been reading the past few days. It’s funny because not only do I totally agree with the premise of the book, it’s actually a subject I was thinking of writing a book on myself. Apparently they […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I saw the wp-amazon WordPress plugin on the wordpress plugins blog and had to mention it here. The idea is fairly self explanatory, but I do link to a lot of stuff on Amazon from here and the process of doing that has been fairly cumbersome. Having the ability to search for and include Amazon […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I finally finished the Oracle/Larry Ellison book Softwar the other day. I liked it more than I expected to. It was less sychophantic than I had originally feared. While the author is clearly sympathetic to Ellison, he does have some fairly balanced critiques of various decisions made by Ellison and Oracle throughout the book. And […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve written before on social networking (see here for earlier thoughts). My thesis is that it’s an interesting idea, but not a standalone play. I’ve had a hard time understanding the valuation and hype of MySpace. But I read this article about MySpace Comedy and I think I finally get it. MySpace isn’t a social […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
fundable.org – sounds like a non-profit, right? Wrong. This is a really interesting web site that is doing something I’ve long thought about. That said, it’s got some terrifying liability questions that would scare me if I were an investor. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves; let’s talk about what the site does. The idea […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My next reading selection is Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle. So far, so good. I’m not that far into it so we’ll see. It’s a portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle’s move into network centric computing and integrated applications suites. The topic interests me, but the book is pushing my buttons […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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