DVD magazines
I’m not doing as much travel as I used to (and _that’s_ a wonderful thing), but it occurred to me today that magazines are nearly ideal for the 1-2 hour flight. You pick them up in the boarding area, and if you read the whole thing cover to cover, you probably finish around the time [...]
Life Lessons from the Donut Guy
Life Lessons from the Donut & Coffee Guy
Jason Kottke has a terrific post about a sidewalk stand that increases profits by improving trust.
“Next!” said the coffee & donut man (who I’ll refer to as “Ralph”) from his tiny silver shop-on-wheels, one of many that dot Manhattan on weekday mornings. I stepped up to the window, [...]
Jim McGee back in the private sector
New gig in the private sector: I’ve actually spent the bulk of my post-doctoral career on the non-academic side of the fence and I’m headed back there again. You can see the details here, although I try to avoid wearing a tie whenever possible. I find that I’m happiest working in rapidly growing environments. Kellogg [...]
BMW - The Ultimate Rain Gauge
It’s raining inside my car - I wonder if that is the sign of a major design flaw? Well the drought finally ended last night, and it looks like we got about 2 inches of rain. I know this because I measured the rain collection in my BMW X5’s center console cup holder. So how [...]
T-Mobile Embraces Disruptive Technology
Good-Bye 3G - Hello Wi-Fi Frappuccino. One of the ( perhaps too often repeated) themes around here is always about how businesses should keep an eye out for disruptive technologies and be ready to embrace them before they take over a legacy business. Unfortunately, there are plenty of examples of companies failing to do this [...]
More on upoc.com
I was intrigued by the Dean campaign’s announcement, so I did a little bit of digging to find out more about upoc.com, the provider who’s making it possible to use SMS as a communications platform for the campaign. Turns out they have a corporate site, with info about what they do, why they’re different, and [...]
Starbucks Innovates Payment System (again)
Starbucks innovates again by offering a dual use Visa. The card boasts the reloadable stored-value feature of its successful Starbucks Card, but also works like a credit card. When using the credit card the customer gains reward points that can then be redeemed at Starbucks retail locations. Expect to see many other retailers copy Starbucks [...]
Cisco buys Linksys
Cisco Buys Linksys - Moves Into The Home. In a bit of a surprise, Cisco today announced that they’re buying Linksys for $500 million. Linksys is the leader in wireless routers for homes by a long shot, so this lets Cisco move down the chain to a more consumer level offering. Cisco has recently been [...]
Got WiFi?
So here I am at LAX in the American Airlines Admirals Club. And thanks to T-Mobile, I’m now a T-Mobile Hotspot customer - and this post comes to you via a WiFi high speed connection in the flight club.
$50/month for unlimited minutes nationwide. I’m trying it out for a month - but may ultimately scale [...]
Voice Over IP Goes Home
From Slate, an article about Vonage, a new entrant in the Internet telephony market. The difference between these guys and the other players? Vonage lets you plug a regular telephone into your broadband connection - and voila - dial tone. Flat rate $40/month for unlimited calling, call waiting, voicemail, caller ID.
On its own, that’s pretty [...]
