Today we’re covering our first Green:Net conference, currently under way at the Golden Gate Club in San Francisco’s beautiful Presidio. It’s a sold-out event, and we’ve already had some smart presentations, including one from our own mayor, Gavin Newsom. And Bob Metcalfe rocked the house with… Read More »
Archive for March 2009
A panel of energy measurement entrepreneurs speaking at Green:Net had surprisingly fuzzy thoughts towards terms like accuracy, precision, and standards. It wasn’t that they think perfect measurement is impossible, just that they have a very nuanced view of what’s currently possible. “We have to look at data… Read More »
The Android platform continues to grow with the release of a new app almost every day, or at least that what’s it seems like. The folks behind Palringo, an IM app that handles virtually all major IM services, have released a free version for the… Read More »
Let’s say you’re trying to take over the world and bring all governments under your control. You have to keep records of all this stuff on your computer, of course. Now what if your plan is almost foiled because you chose a stupid password like the… Read More »
Michael Robertson, founder of Gizmo5, which recently released a service that enables free calls to Skype called OpenSky, calls the new Skype-for SIP service vaporware. It’s great to see Skype inching towards a more interoperable world with their Skype for SIP service. Even… Read More »
Gavin Starks, CEO of AMEE, a web services platform that helps track and measure carbon consumption, scared the heck out of the audience this morning at the Green:Net conference here in San Francisco. He started off by pointing out that a 2.5-kilogram MacBook costs the equivalent… Read More »
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom welcomed a full house of Green IT entrepreneurs at GigaOM’s first-ever Green:Net conference by proclaiming: “If you have an idea, let me know. We are a laboratory for innovation.” Newsom said his first environmental initiatives were fairly easy. “It didn’t take… Read More »
Clicks just aren’t what they used to be. In fact, they’re pretty much meaningless for the online advertising business, said Gian Fulgoni, chairman and co-founder of comScore, during a keynote speech at the OMMA Hollywood conference in Los Angeles on Monday. In their place, advertisers and Web… Read More »
Right about the time T-Mobile initially offered the G1 handset, we mentioned a useful free application from Wrike. The software synchronized contacts on your Microsoft Exchange server with the Android handset. Useful, to be sure, but that left out any appointments in your calendar.… Read More »
If you’ve taken to full-time web working as your sole source of income, one of the challenges you may have already encountered is that there is no clear or pre-determined career path to follow. In other words, it can be hard to see the next rung… Read More »
We’ve heard rumors of a new device from Peek for a good month or two. Peek, if you don’t recall, is an email only device that runs on T-Mobile’s EDGE data network: You buy the small device outright and pay a monthly fee for the… Read More »
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