Saving Lives in Iraq With Tech Convention Schwag

Francisco Dao — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:36:10 -0400

Technology: The Great Airline Shakeup Continues

Robert Buckman — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:19:23 -0400

Did you ever tell yourself you were going to watch a sunset, then close
your eyes for a moment, only to open them again and find out that you
missed it, that the sun had set, and that the whole landscape looked
different.

Well, the sun is setting on a whole lot of airlines these days, and
the landscape from where I sit happening so fast that it's hard to keep
track of who's flying where.

Route reductions and airline failures mean that anyone who flies
frequently is finding it tougher to keep their scorecard up to date.

OneWebDay

Brian Reich — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:55:12 -0400

I am an Ambassador for OneWebDay, a global celebration of the web that takes place every year on September 22nd. There is more information at www.onewebday.org.

SoCal Tech – The Undiscovered Country

Francisco Dao — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:26:18 -0400

When Mike Macadaan, a Silicon Valley based designer at AOL, decided to throw a tech exhibition, you’d think he would have done it locally. Instead, Macadaan did the unthinkable. He went to Los Angeles. Surely this would mean disaster. After all, the only tech companies in LA were celebrity vanity projects that made no sense, right?

What about Me?

Tim Manners — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:30:54 -0400

The most frustrating thing about Apple's newly introduced "mobileme" service is that it seems I can’t create an alias return address with my own domain name. Yes, I can forward all of my other email addresses to my me.com address, but if I reply using the me.com service I must use my me.com email identity.

At best, it's not obvious how to use my own email address if I want to.

Micro Venture Capitalists - Filling the Funding Gap

Francisco Dao — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:07:25 -0400

It used to be that venture capitalists either went big or went home. If the investment wasn’t $1.5 million or more, the deal just wasn’t interesting to them. Unfortunately, this often left early stage companies facing a funding gap between what they could raise from family and friends and the big money the VCs wanted to invest. Angels helped fill the gap, but this still left limited options for the entrepreneur looking for money in the $250K to $1.5 million “no-man’s land.”

Vumber - Your Disposable Phone Number

Stephen L Rose — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:53:34 -0400

Vumber does one thing and does it well. Provide a cheap and easy to use, disposable phone number and voicemail product.

Vumber allows you to create a phone number from any area code you want, linked to your home, cell or work phone.

When someone calls your Vumber number you can: A) Answer it. B) Send it to a Vumber Voice mail. C) Give the caller an busy signal. D) Give the caller an out of service message. E) Give the caller an infinite ring, or F) A custom message you create.

Can Your Company’s Video Story Change a Life?

Thomas Clifford — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:27:53 -0400

Do you remember the exact moment you knew what you wanted to do for the rest of your life?

I do. It happened while watching a video. It took exactly seven minutes.

• Cut to 1984.

Hot off the heels of two communication degrees, my workday was a mix of entry-level activities; pulling cables, loading gear into vans, clipping on mic’s, getting lunch for the crew, and so forth. I was a kid trying to break into an incredibly competitive field.

The Network IS the Innovation Lab

Francisco Dao — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:31:08 -0400

Who’s Got the Winning Idea?

Terry Tamminen — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:03:59 -0400

As we scramble for solutions to climate, energy, and environmental problems, companies, governments, and individuals are taking action - - so does anyone have a monopoly on great ideas for true “sustainability” or “social responsibility”?