Dave’s note from the Inbox gets the nod today and we’ll need some help with the answer. Here’s the situation: "I’m desparately looking for a way to … Read More »
Archive for April 2007
We’ve written before about coworking – the idea that a batch of web workers and other independents can organize their own cafe-like shared workplace and enjoy the benefits of conviviality as well as a permanent place to park things like widescreen monitors. If you’ve … Read More »
Interesting Samsung news out of Impress via Engadget: a 1.8-inch drive with high capacity of 100- or 120 GB. From the looks of a presentation slide, … Read More »
Dell has announced a solid state disk option for their Latitude D420 and D620 notebooks according to Akihabaranews. The 32 GB SSDs aren’t the biggest capacity flash … Read More »
Tomorrow is Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day — an interesting proposition for those of us working from home. “Come on, Janie, step into my office. What’s mommy doing? Surfing the web. That’s my job. Yes, I get paid to surf the Web.” … Read More »
Using a camera as a scanner is nothing new but it depends on how good the software is that performs the optical character recognition (OCR). Snapter is a program that has just exited a beta program that purports to be the solution for us all. … Read More »
I lost $50,000 on a start up that was supposed to cure dislexia through visual computer learning. Instead, in a controlled study, it gave the subjects erections! Every computing or Internet business seems somehow related to sex. *Founders’ Lesson #4: Your job is to grock it. Then … Read More »
A thread on The Chutry Experiment (a blog maintained by film and media studies professor Chuck Tryon) sent me on a mission this week. Tryon is working on an academic paper on movie trailer mashups, and in this blog post, he observed that most … Read More »
Tim Bajarin of PC Magazine has penned a good article about mobile PCs and road warriors. He is the first journalist who has written about the UMPC who seems to actually get the platform and understand the needs they are designed to meet. More importantly … Read More »
This is the third in a series of Venture Hacks articles on how to get the most out of your founder’s equity. “We talked to a lot of different angel investors and venture capitalists, but no one really ‘got’ what we were doing — that is … Read More »
Last couple of days from many different sources we have been hearing about this little company called Scribd. A funding frenzy is taking place around the company, with some of the top name venture capitalists jostling to invest in the company. There has been talk … Read More »
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