Seth Levine has posted Marion Jenkins’ detailed rebuttal to HB 1192. Mr. Jenkins suggests this tax legislation should be opposed due to a wide range of problems, including it being a new tax which should go before all voters to the complexity in determining when a lump of software code is deemed “standard” and subject [...]
Most of us like to name drop, at least a little. And so it is with great interest that we follow the careers of former colleagues. Here is Chad Evans, taking one deep at the iPad launch. Watch him here.
During the third quarter of 2009, a total of 35 energy and environmental companies received $421 million in new venture capital financing, representing an 8% decrease in the number of companies being funded and an 8% decrease in the total amount funded to the four sectors of Alternative Energy, Clean Tech, Energy and Environmental.
Alternative Energy [...]
Department of Energy Secretary Chu announces $93 million from the Recover Act to support the development of additional wind energy in the United States. The money will support R&D and testing for wind turbine drivetrains, support university and industry consortia focusing on critical wind energy challenges, advanced technology development in the private sector and a [...]
Bob Metcalfe, using the history of the Internet as a guide, provided his list of things to look for and look out for in the changing energy sector.
Metcalfe gave an optimistic view of the environmental challenge suggesting not only are we in a Global Warming Bubble but that cheap, clean energy will be so abundant, [...]
So, how many Google searches produce the equivalent CO2 emissions as boiling a cup of water?
A confusing question unless you been following the stream of posts generated by the Sunday Times of London quoting (or misquoting) Harvard University physicist Alex Wissner-Gross‘ study on the energy used by view webpages. IN the story, the Times [...]
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General session audience, originally uploaded by Alex Dunne.
The inaugural Cloud Summit held in Mtn. View, CA, was well attended with attendees representing many of the California technology companies and their suppliers of money and advice.
The folks at Pragmatic Marketing have put together a great book describing their process for creating products and services that customers want and more importantly will buy.
Tuned In is a quick read and should prove to be a valuable reference guide as you turn to your potential customers to define the products and services someone [...]
So the Apple world has yet to come up with a blogging tool to satisfy the desires of those familiar with Live Writer. I’m testing blogo, and it may work for some of you. Here is a screen shot from their site.
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Websense announced in February that Google’s CAPTCHA busted in recent spammer tactic. This came right on the heels of bots breaking the Live Hotmail CATTCHA system. With my gmail account compromised a few weeks ago, I began looking into the likely ways this was done and and I believe there was a good chance it [...]
Today at 3:22 PM, I received the first phone call and would later discover that the first email also arrived then. Apparently, another form of Nigerian embezzlement was underway with a message from my hacked gmail account being sent to my contacts.
Subject: “Very Important, Please Read ASAP.”
I want you to read carefully and [...]
I recently decided to purchase the January 2008 iPod Touch upgrade. I thinking about getting an iPhone and have decided I’m willing to part with the 20 bucks to test out the email app so there is no need for me to repeat what others have said about this already. Great products overcome bad decisions [...]
The New York Times reports that Venture Capitalist invest in 922 deals in the first quarter of 2008, compared to 861 in the same period last year. The total amount invested was down 5% causing the times to lead with the headline Venture Capitalists Invest Less In First Quarter – New York Times.
“We do not [...]
Steven Spielberg’s Ghost Town suggests the social networking theme will take, or at a minimum test, the boundaries of segmentation. In this case not market segmentation, but segmentation of social circles. The main question I raise is “Do I want a lot of distributed social network tools?” Of course, I am [...]
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