Online Calendar, Google Style
If you haven’t heard already, Google just released an online calendar web application. It has all of the slick interface items that you have come to expect from Google. But was makes this offering...
View ArticleFree Online Backup Software, The Mozy Way
If you have been following my InfoTech articles published in Landscape Management Magazine, you know that I highly recommend offsite backup as a means to keep your data safe and secure. I would venture...
View ArticleThe Evolution of the Software Industry
Dan Farber wrote and interesting blog entry (ZDNet Between The Lines) recaping Software 2006 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. He highlights some interesting themes in software industry and how we...
View ArticleApril CTO Breakfast
I attended Phil Windley’s CTO breakfast this morning. As always we had a good discussion on all things technology. I found a couple of interesting ideas from this meeting. First off, Nathan Conger from...
View ArticleSkype Offers Free Calling
Online Voice over IP vendor Skype has just announced free calling with in the US and Canada until the end of the year. This is an interesting move and further commoditize the long distance market. But...
View ArticleASCII Maps and Poly9
Have you ever wondered what happened to the ASCII art phenomenon on the 70s and 80s? Look no further than ASCII Maps from Canadian based Poly9 Group Inc. ASCII Maps is a mashup between Google maps and...
View ArticleMay CTO Breakfast
We had a good discussion today at the Phil Windley’s CTO Breakfast. A couple of items really stood out. Bruce Fryer with a new startup Digisense brought up the Amazon S3 web service is being used by...
View ArticleNext Generation Touch Screen Interface
Check out this video of Jeff Han from NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences as he demos his new touch screen interface that allows multi-touch input. Sign me up to the beta!
View Article400MHz Linux PC for your Back Pocket
Check out this 1″x5″ PC from Gumstix. It comes with 64MB of RAM, 16MB Flash, Compact Flash, and an Ethernet port. Add a wareable display from Microvision and a halfkeyboard from Matias and you can...
View ArticleUnified Messaging for the Masses
I just stumbled upon an interesting consumer voice mail business called GotVoice. They offer a free service to have your home of cell phone voice mail sent to your email in the form of an mp3 file. I...
View ArticleApple Unveils New iPhone
Steve Jobs made the big announcement at Macworld in San Francisco this week by unveiling Apple’s entry into the cell phone market. The unique take away’s for me is the new “multitouch’ interface that...
View ArticleChaCha.com a Google Killer?
What do you get when you combine the human intelligence behind Amazon’s MTurk and Google’s clean and accurate approach to web searching: ChaCha.com For a search engine ChaCha.com provides a clean...
View ArticleRobotic Flying Dragonfly at CES
Check out this video of a robotic dragonfly from the company Wow Wee. Just one more reason why I should be attending CES. http://news.com.com/1606-12994_3-6150150.html?tag=ne.video.6150150 Technorati...
View Article500 Gallons of Fresh Water a Day
Do you dream of living “Off the Grid?” Check out this solution for fresh water that is reminiscent of the moisture farms on Tatooine. Aqua Sciences, Inc. has a technology that can product up to 500...
View ArticleIs Gigabit Quantum-Encryption ‘Uncrackable’?
I saw an interesting announcement today by id Quantique SA and Senetas Corp. Ltd. about a commercial application of quantum encryption. They claim 1 gigabit per second data rates in their prototype...
View ArticleSolving a Home CATV Wiring Problem
Yesterday I had an interesting experience helping a good friend and neighbor set up some CATV wiring in his basement. Now I’ve done this kind of stuff in past jobs and even in my own basement. So you...
View ArticleWhy I didn’t go to TED, Bil, or ETech: The Big Business & Technology Expo.
Just to be clear, all of these conferences are great. I’m just not into them this year. It doesn’t work with the travel budget and I’m busy on other projects. But watching the coverage of all these...
View ArticleSolar Power on Peru’s Eros Islands
As many of you know, I recently spent 2 weeks in Peru and Ecuador seeing the sites and working on content for our new travel site, MunchkinTravel.com. We took our 4 year old with us and he had the time...
View ArticleMy Attempt to Find the Ecuadorian Equator
As many of you know, I recently spent 2 weeks in Peru and Ecuador seeing the sites and working on content for our new travel site, MunchkinTravel.com. We took our 4 year old with us and he had the time...
View ArticleSocialPaywall.com and the Kynetx Platform
So for the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on a fun stealth project. And now it’s time to open it up to a little wider beta audience. So, I’m now introducing…. SocialPaywall.com - Get paid for...
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