Next week is a very special week here at technosailor.com. We are going to have a very heavy emphasis on “green” technology and all the major verticals will be contributing in one way or another. Energy costs are sky high, Bush is badgering Congress to lift the ban on off-shore drilling, and computer manufacturers are [...]
July 30, 2008
What does a Grocery Store scanner have to do with a PC?
I have a good amount of respect for Jeremiah Owyang. He’s an analyst at Forrester who has done some good work on social media. On the other hand, why he isn’t well-informed enough to avoid asking really, really stupid questions makes me question whether I should take him seriously as an authority on technology, or [...]
July 29, 2008
Informalities Can Kill Your Job Search
The economy is way down and the pain is not only being felt at the pump. It’s being felt in the job market. Unemployment hit an all time high last quarter as more and as more and more people hit the streets looking for meaningful employment, bad habits are accompanying them. Sarah Needleman of the [...]
July 29, 2008
Walled Gardens and Business Models in the 21st Century
Walled Gardens. Defined as media properties utilizing privileged access to provide information services or content to a user. The classic example of a walled garden was AOL, before they opened up most of their services. Users paid $23.95 or whatever the access rate was and got access to the “AOL Network.” Then there was Facebook, [...]
July 29, 2008
Memo to Bloggers: Not Everything is Free.
Just a small, possibly controversial, thought on Redlasso shutting their doors for bloggers to use their content. NBC and Fox filed copyright infringement actions against Redlasso for allowing users search, clip, and post excerpts from copyrighted video content on their blogs. Redkasso (rightly) closed up their free service, but continues to supply to (paying) business [...]
July 28, 2008
WordPress Plugin: WP-Brightkite
Some of you have noticed that I’ve been doing some experimentation in recent months with geolocation. Geolocation is a very powerful aspect of the next generation web. Particularly in the mobile space. Boulder, CO-based Brightkite stormed on the scene a few months back as a location based micro blogging network. Members could take photos from [...]