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Nanosolar, Web HD Video & Personal Productivity

Earth2Tech Interview: 10 Questions for NanoSolar CEO, Martin Roscheisen. Continue reading The quality of the video shown in tiny windows is maybe okay for giggles, but can get quite tiresome after a few minutes. Enter HD web video. Is Web Video ready … Read More »

The Cost of Carbon Capture

While we can ponder whether “clean coal” is an oxymoron, the carbon capture technologies that some power companies are starting to consider are very expensive. The Oil Drum quotes an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change carbon capture and storage report that says carbon capture … Read More »

 
 

iTweet: best Twitter client for the iPhone yet

I caught wind of iTweet during one of Marc Orchant’s Twitter updates last week. (BTW: Happy five-o to Marc today!) I was using the standard Twitter home page … Read More »

Happy birthday to Marc!

Happy birthday big guy!  The big 5-0 as in Hawaii.  :)  You don’t look a stardate over 49.98.  Enjoy. Read More »

Aiming to be a one stop-shopping experience for viral marketers, Vidmetrix, part of San Diego-based Holt Labs, is continuing to build its suite of tools for Read More »

Republican YouTube Debate Postponed? As we wrote last week, leading GOP candidates haven’t been enthusiastic about participating in September’s planned CNN-YouTube debate. Only John McCain and Ron Paul have committed, and Paul’s blog says the event is being postponed. (Washington Post, Ron Paul’s … Read More »

This won’t happen until next year and the details are scant, but GameSpot UK reports that video-on-demand is coming to the PSP in the U.K. and Ireland. The … Read More »

Creating an Online Disaster Plan

As web workers, we spend our days moving through a constantly-shifting landscape of services and servers. Our lives, livelihoods, and identities are all wrapped up in a cloud of hardware and software maintained by other people. When it all works, it’s great. But what do you … Read More »

Steve Jobs: #3 Most Influential Business Leader

Steve Jobs is on the cover of USA Today with the text “Most influential business leaders” over his shoulder. USA Today ranked the “25 Most noteworthy in business” and Steve Jobs ranked third, only beaten by Bill Gates at first and Alan Greenspan in … Read More »

The Associated Press will shut down asap, its premium podcast and video service aimed at the 18-to-34 age group, according to an AP business story. The service had not been financially successful, said Kathleen Carroll, AP executive editor. asap, which launched in September 2005, had … Read More »

I’ve only just read this on the Neowin site, so I have no other evidence as to the validity, but if true, this is good news for Vista owners. … Read More »

Startup: "Renewable Petroleum" LS9 Opens Up

The Khosla-backed biofuel company LS9 is opening up the kimono a bit today. Grist and the Wall Street Journal say the company has developed a biofuel that use traditional feedstocks used for ethanol, but will contain “50% more energetic content and is … Read More »

More Must Reads

Though the site in later years turned into a mockery of itself, at one time MacOSRumors, authored by Ryan Meader, was the go-to site for Apple gossip and innuendo. (Wikipedia) In the late 1990s, Meader’s site led the way in leaks around … Read More »

We discussed the HTC Kaiser on a recent MobileTechRoundup podcast and late last week, the device came across the FCC listings. Based on the GSM frequencies and the … Read More »

Collective, while still privileging the individual. The best software of the future will bring together the work and goals of many people without subordinating each person’s knowledge and expertise to the dominance of the group, as happens with group think. For example, prediction markets produce a … Read More »

I was stumbling around the intranets keeping a vigilant eye out for mobile PC reviews when I ran across this series by Neil Balthaser at Ultra Mobility.  The author has been using an OQO Model 02 for a while and is writing a thorough review … Read More »

Martin Roscheisen, CEO of thin film solar company Nanosolar, founded the startup five years ago when solar was nowhere near the hot topic it is today. He managed to fund the company with at least $100 million from venture firms like Benchmark Capital … Read More »

I had a broken Apple Pro keyboard to deal with at work today, and so, in accordance with one of my favorite mottoes – when in doubt, take something apart – I took it apart. This turned out to be a bit harder than I … Read More »

Jimmy Wales, the founder of not-for-profit Wikipedia and for-profit, San Mateo, Calif.-based Wikia is part of a growing number of people who are discomforted by the growing control Google has over search. And he is doing something about it. His company, Wikia, last week bought … Read More »

Anyone who has watched YouTube — and who hasn’t — knows that the short-form video that currently breaks up the monotony of a work day simply sucks. The quality of the video shown in tiny windows is maybe okay for giggles, but can get quite tiresome … Read More »

Yes, I realize I brought up this topic before, but I wanted to revisit it, now that the beloved iPhone has landed. My hope is that some people can answer a couple of questions I have: 1. M3/M4 Hearing-aid compatibility? - This is a … Read More »

It seems like everyone wants their device to look and act like an iPhone, as opposed to just getting an iPhone.  At least in the US.  Some clever folks in Brazil have written a utility for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet that mimics the on-screen … Read More »

You have many tools to choose from for collaborating with work associates, whether they’re in the next cubicle or the next country. Sometimes email is good enough, but instant messaging (IM) may be better. And IM is getting increasing respect from the business … Read More »

I love to share how my gadgets tools fit into my work days so it’s time for another "Day in the Life" article. In these articles I walk you through my entire work day and fill you in on how I use my gadgets to … Read More »

Broadband is the best friend of those who use the Web2.0 to reinvent the boring, the old fashioned and the antiquated. That theory of ours has been proved by the early success of SpreadShirt and Threadless. And of late, we are seeing … Read More »

*Editor’s Note:* You asked for a founders’ *Reading List,* and we’re building it. For our first installment of recommended titles, we turned to Found|READ contributor and best-selling author, Tim Ferriss, whose hip tome on personal and professional emancipation, “The 4-Hour Workweek”:http://www.thefourhourworkweek.com/, is soaring up both the … Read More »

Indie filmmakers, videographers and photographers are uniting to protest a series of new regulations proposed by the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater, and Broadcasting here in New York City. As currently worded, the new regulations would force any group of two or more people using a … Read More »

NowPublic, a Vancouver-based citizen journalism site has raised $10.6 million in Series A funding from Rho Ventures/Rho Canada, Brightspark, and the Working Opportunity Fund. So first off, that’s a boatload of cash in the web news business and we’re not saying it’s justified. However, NowPublic is … Read More »

Facebook, one has to admit is a great time sink. Given how much you have to do to just manage your Facebook life, it is hardly a surprise; some organizations are taking a draconian approach to them. Jason Calacanis has declared Facebook bankruptcy. … Read More »

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the controversial 2007 Farm Bill on Friday. The five-year farm bill, which is projected to cost over $280 billion, includes $2.4 billion set aside for clean energy, which is allocated for wind and solar power, energy efficiency, … Read More »

I have recently found myself traveling to new locations that I have never been to before. For these treks, I usually take my Garmin Nuvi 360 GPS which I hook up using my tape adapter. However, this knocks out my normal use of my … Read More »

Dell has chosen to use their Direct2Dell blog to promote their upcoming Tablet PC.  Their entry into the Tablet space has a lot of folks pretty excited as witnessed by the response to their first look video on the blog.  Now they’re back with a … Read More »

Dan of ThoughtFix is a great guy that Kevin and I had the pleasure of meeting earlier this year.  I try to stay in touch with Dan regularly as he is very plugged into the mobile lifestyle and what it takes to achieve one.  In that … Read More »

There are times in many a web worker’s life when a group chat is the best way for a bunch of people working on a project to get together. Recently, for example, I got together with a bunch of others about working on a collaborative project. A … Read More »

If you joined Facebook recently (and really, who hasn’t?) chances are your profile includes a walking corpse like the one on the left. Launched in mid-June, the Zombies game is already among the social network’s most popular widgets, boasting well over 2 million … Read More »

Testifying Friday in the copyright infringement lawsuit proceedings between YouTube and Viacom, a Google lawyer said the video-sharing site would be deploying video recognition software “hopefully in September.” The system, which has been promised for the better part of the last year, would match uploads with … Read More »

I have read that Apple is shrinking its 85W Power Adapter for the MacBook Pro to a more manageable size.  I remember first getting my MacBook Pro, an upgrade from a TiBook, and noting the size of the power brick.  I thought it was laughable that … Read More »

You know it’s summer when everyone in Washington is suddenly talking about P2P. College students who otherwise might protest bad legislation are busy getting stoned in Europe. High temperatures drive lobbyists into pit bull-like attack mode. And, face it, it’s summer, which means there is nothing … Read More »

Making power hungry data centers more energy efficient is a big business and Cisco knows it. On Friday Cisco said it will purchase $150 million of the virtualization company VMware’s Class A common shares from VMware’s parent company EMC. Cisco says it … Read More »

This is another side project I’m thinking of. I’ve decided not to integrate WWAN into my UMPC (the last project under consideration) because I use too … Read More »

An independent developer has built a Flash version of Joost that runs in any browser. Sure, he doesn’t have access to any of the Joost content, but what he’s built is basically a proof-of-concept using Joost graphics and improving on the UI, using publicly … Read More »

ThinkFree invitations — Want to try ThinkFree, an online document editor? It’s in closed beta, but if you want a free premium account good through sometime late next year, send an email to gigaom@thinkfree.com. The first 50 people to send an email will get … Read More »

An independent developer has built a Flash version of Joost that runs in any browser. Sure, he doesn’t have access to any of the Joost content, but what he’s built is basically a proof-of-concept using Joost graphics and improving on the UI, using publicly available … Read More »

CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly.MoTR 106 is 31:40 minutes long and is a 29.1 MB file in MP3 format. INTRO: Based on “Time v2.1″ by Meta Sektion, … Read More »

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