I was thinking about how software based systems tend to develop over their lifetime, and have come to the sad realization that most developers and systems managers are the digital equivalent of pack-rats.
While many are wizards at adding and extending the features and capabilities of the systems they work with (and in some pretty [...]
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I love home automation systems. Receiving status and having control of my entire house - all through a single interface - is something I’ve been dreaming of for a long time. While I have made some progress in this area, I’m still operating the technology in my house with several disconnected control [...]
A Stimulus For The Auto Industry - To Improve…
Published August 20th, 2009 in Featured and Posts. CommentsThe success of what has become know as the “Cash For Clunker’s” program got me thinking about the power of incentives to effective behavior.
The program - officially called Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) - was passed by congress and implemented by the Department of Transportation. A download from their website describe the program as [...]
There’s been a lot happening recently in the ebook marketplace..
In the update I wrote a couple of weeks ago on the Amazon Kindle, I commented on the price of readers:
…the recent Kindle price cut, bringing it down to $299, is another step in the right direction. Though I personally believe it will need to [...]
Fred Wilson has a great post on his blog this morning about the semantic web (Making The Web Smarter). Beyond the mention of my company InfoNgen, it also provided an interesting perspective on the how the web is evolving in practice. This is a subject I’m passionate about, so I couldn’t pass up [...]
It will be great to finally see a truly web based operating system released…
Though there is still a great deal unknown about Google’s Chrome OS, it will likely be the next logical step in operating system development: a rich edge-based footprint for web centric computing. If combined with their recently unveiled unified messaging environment [...]
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