Google’s latest play
Gosh. I just need to read up on this. But what I’ve read so far makes me feel good in many ways. In other ways, it makes me feel bad. 🙂 There’s a lo...
Category: The Narrative
Kids and phones and IM and SMS
A colleague was mentioning how his (American) daughters were getting all caught up with Webkinz: “Webkinz pets are lovable plush pets that each come with ...
Ramblings on noise: Our senses
Yeah, the whole noise thing is still bouncing in my head. I was dabbling with some visualization ideas this week and it brought back the whole noise thought. I ...
Why doesn’t NASA go crowdsourcing?
I was listening to Ira Flatow interview a guy from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter team. The guy said they were getting a tera-byte of info a week, more than th...
Filtering the noise on Twitter
Just heard about a new feature in Twitter that lets you ignore the noise and get alerted to the signal, albeit a signal you choose. In my ramble on noise, this ...
Google brings their ‘Web’ service to the Web.
I thought this was funny – a ‘Web’ tab. It leads to iGoogle. It was funny, because we have an Internet group (that deals with Internet enabler...
Pause for station identification
As some of my regular readers might know, I find it useful to ‘pause for station identification’ so that it’s clear who I am and what I do. We...
Six Apart get a new CEO
For some of you, this might be just another press release for just another Silicon Valley company (see quote and link below). For me, I see and feel a ton of th...
When are they going to give this guy the Nobel in Medicine? Make it two.
I take it most have heard of Watson and Crick, the guys credited for discovering the structure of DNa back in the 50s. But, have any of you heard of Craig Vente...
This is not your father’s telecom industry – Part 3: emerging markets
This is the second part of a talk I gave last year. It’s still relevant. I’ve written this from my notes. This is a special topic of mine. When I wr...