Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer and founder of Amazon, is a proponent of a Japanese philosophy called kaizen — which loosely translated means continuous improvement. As part of this belief, he has been working alongside folks at his company’s distribution centers in Lexington, Ky., perhaps… Read More »
Archive for March 2009
One of the key sales criteria in the enterprise application space -– and one of the greatest development challenges -– is the ability to scale. At TimeTrade Systems we have met that challenge, creating a successful business selling SaaS-based applications that enable very large organizations… Read More »
Hollywood and the major record labels have always enjoyed a love-hate relationship with new media, alternating between roses and lawsuits for online entrepreneurs, if you will. Lately, it was looking a little like love was going to win. Hulu, after all, had convinced its detractors that… Read More »
Inspired by Simon Mackie spring-cleaning his laptop, I’ve decided to devote this weekend to cleaning both my desktop and my laptop. I’m not talking about wiping my desk and calling it a day — I’m referring to serious dust-busting and de-cluttering. In this post, I’m… Read More »
The whole NewTeeVee crew is down in Los Angeles to celebrate the inaugural Streamy Awards tonight. The event will be live-streaming from 6 to 9:30 p.m. PT on streamys.org, with red carpet coverage followed by the main event at 7:30. Check out official updates on… Read More »
OK, no idea how true this is or not, but here’s what we know. PreThinking stumbled on to some Twitter updates from Jim Van, who claims to be a Palm Pre beta tester. I’d think that anyone testing the new device or the… Read More »
Is there really still no native Facebook client for Android devices? I don’t have a T-Mobile G1, but some Googling didn’t turn up anything when looking for such an app. There appears to be a web-wrapper type of “application”, but nothing else. Leave it… Read More »
Welcome one and all to the weekend, a time for rest, relaxation and fresh pickings from the App Store. Before checking out this week’s apps, we’ve got seven days worth of Apple happenings to run through. First up, the week kicked off with a scathing review of… Read More »
An audience favorite at our Green:Net conference was the Power Grid 2.0 panel, where executives from utilities, startups and technology providers hashed out what the next generation of the electricity grid would need to look like. Panelists included: Andrew Tang, senior director of Smart Energy Web… Read More »
Enjoy this photo montage of our first Green:Net conference. Many of these photos were taken with my Blackberry 8900 Curve. Others were captured by volunteers and our very own Joey Wan. Read More »
The introduction of the original Kindle, now known as the Kindle 1 since the recent release of the Kindle 2, brought the world of e-books to the masses. Formerly the domain of the geeky, the Kindle 1 opened up a whole new era of purchasing… Read More »
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