A historical collection of our writing.
Yesterday, Google announced something stunning: free turn-by-turn directions for Android 2.0 to be first available shortly on the Droid phones. It is stunning because the previously cheapest software only alternatives were apps such as Navigon ($89.99) and TomTom ($99.99) for the iPhone (as an […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
If you either follow the Freakonomics blog or any of the global warming / CO2 coverage, you will have by now encountered the tiff over the “climate chapter” (Chapter 5) of Superfreakonomics. If not, you can read Levitt’s most recent defense and compare with an impact summary written from the other […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
I am late to the Kindle show. Having grown up in Europe and going back there for vacation a fair bit (and reading books mostly on vacation and otherwise via DailyLit), I did not want to buy a US-only device. So I jumped on the international Kindle, pre-ordering as soon as it was announced (something […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
The NoSQL movement has been gathering a lot of steam lately (despite some folks misgivings about the name). There have been meetups in major cities around the world – most recently in Berlin – and there is a big conference coming up in Atlanta. I am happy to say that MongoDB has been extremely well […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Someone recently said to me that the most interesting things happening on the net these days are breaking down the walls between disparate realms of information and between different modes of interaction. Google Wave is a big attempt to at breaking down walls. Another take is launching today from […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
A while back I did a series of posts on board effectiveness. In it I wrote the following about conducting a board meeting: I have recently come to learn an important lesson: If the person running the board meeting is not doing this, it is critical for another board member to step in an make […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
