The Royal Pingdom Blog had an interesting blog post today about how during the last four years there have been increasingly fewer Google searches for "webhosting." They asked for ideas about why this might be so. Well, here goes my take:
How to use a Bug Labs gadget to manage conference rooms at the office
-Fri, 04/25/08
I work in technology at a large firm and we're currently reviewing the system we use to book conference rooms. I met with a potential vendor today to learn about a hardware solution they offer: it's a touchscreen device that mounts by the door of each conference room. Every time you reserve a meeting room, the reservation gets sent over the intranet to the local device. When you show up for your meeting there is an LCD that displays the name of the meeting and who booked it.
Mahalo. Google. Who's got the better search engine?
-Thu, 04/24/08
I am very interested in Mahalo’s human-powered search engine and am anxious to see if Mahalo can become a viable competitor to the big boys. I am also traveling to Italy next month and want to gather a lot of information before my trip. So I figured it was a perfect test case to pit Mahalo against Google and see who gives me the best results. This is what I came up with.
Who's going to make money in the new era of music?
-Tue, 04/22/08
This is an interesting question recently posed by Peter Kafka from SAI. There has been a lot of talk about music recently, especially among venture capitalists and entrepreneurs (see Fred Wilson’s Blog for some great insight into the music industry). The first part of my response is a question: What are the components of this giant arena called the music industry? The answer is pretty simple.
How the Web of Trust is making people-driven security a reality
-Tue, 04/08/08
I initially wrote about WOT in December of 2007. I definitely believed in the idea (as I do now), but thought the product was a little short on features. The concept is an online rating system where users determine the credibility and safety of websites. A toolbar on your browser displays website ratings as you surf the web, alerting you of potentially dangerous sites and phishing schemes. I wanted to post a follow-up because the Finnish startup has made a lot of progress and is looking promising.
Google Docs creates the best handbook I've ever seen
-Wed, 04/02/08
Google just launched the Google Docs Community on YouTube. It's a near perfect handbook for Google Docs users. It's a community full of videos on how to perform various activities using Google Docs and Spreadsheets. I'm a big fan of Google Docs, especially as a solution for startup companies and small businesses. It avoids the heavy costs of self-hosted software and infrastructure, it's fairly headache-free (you don't have to maintain anything), and it's extremely scalable.
What happens when a blogger owns a sports franchise
-Mon, 03/31/08
Mark Cuban just announced that he'll be opening up the Mavs locker room to bloggers around the world. In the ultimate snub to big media, Mark will open his locker room to any blogger he deems worthy (even if they're in the 8th grade). As a famous blogger himself, Mark Cuban has long maintained his anti-old-media stance. Wearing jerseys instead of suits, and speaking through the blogosphere instead of ESPN, Mark Cuban definitely represents new media.
Why semiconductor companies need to move away from the smaller, faster, cheaper mantra.
-Thu, 03/06/08
In the 1960's Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, made the lofty statement that semiconductor companies would continue to double the number of transistors they could fit on a chip every 2 years. Now known as Moore's Law, this phenomenon has held eerily true for decades. It was also the main driver behind the growth in the semiconductor industry. Semiconductor behemoths like AMD and Intel have been in a relentless race to continue making their products smaller, faster and cheaper. Year after year.
