Month: July 2008

  • Green Comes to Technosailor.com

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • NBC, NFL Deal Puts Adobe One More Step Back

    Quietly, a sleeping giant has been evolving. That sleeping giant is Silverlight, a Microsoft rich media technology to rival Adobe’s Flash/Flex platform. On this date, July 28, there is a dearth of Silverlight content on the web. Almost all the major video sites use Flash players, with Hulu, an NBC property, being a probable exception.…

  • Inside the Beltway, Inside the SuitCase

    The “inside the beltway” world is often deemed to be a crazy echo-chamber of pundits and talking heads who just want attention or to be re-elected or to get more power, because of all the perks and luxuries and what-not. Oh, and the decisions are all made by lobbyists in back rooms and it’s all…

  • Five Thoughts for New (and old) Bloggers

    I’ve spent a good portion of the weekend restructuring things around here at Technosailor. You can see that the site is much more organized around topics, as you can see from the new Masthead. Each of the verticals have been segregated into five separate blog-like entities. Desk of the Editor is all of my content.…

  • Andrew Feinberg to Join Technosailor.com

    Many of you know of, or have met, Andrew Feinberg. Andrew is a journalist working on Capitol Hill. He was instrumental in coordinating visits to Washington, D.C. by Robert Scoble and provided a great deal of information to me on the story I covered surrounding Congressional use of social media. Andrew has proven himself a…