Haiku – Startups Ain’t Sex
Somewhat seductive. Scrambled social sensations. Game changers? Yep. Schleps. inspired by Guanzhi Ma’s comment on TechCrunch article ‘rise of sensationalization of start-ups’ Brad Feld via ecorner -...
View ArticleHaiku – Content, Startups, & Tech – Weekly Review – soon via YouTube
Weekly broadcast. Soon. Net out. MegaUpload down. PandoDaily up. inspired by many things, such as ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams by Randy Pausch...
View ArticleContent Creation and Tech Startups – Week in Review – 1/14/2012 – 1/21/2012 –...
Content index listed below video. Section top-level links correspond to indicated time hacks. Weekly review also available in 480-resolution. 0:00 - Introduction Intro by Chris Augeri Recording Date –...
View ArticleHaiku – Machines, Where Us?
match scenes, every where. augmenting, assisting, think. ent - or - tain? people? partially inspired by automated humans by Troy Hunt What if we start multithreading the humans?
View ArticleMicrosoft Office – convert trial from unlicensed product to activated license
Interesting ‘undocumented feature’ encounter yesterday… Sometime ago, I’d downloaded the 60-day trial software suite of Microsoft Home & Office 20110, which had since expired and converted to...
View ArticleHaiku – Humanus Computarus
discover – pearls, pin like ⋯ plus one ⋯ tweet, dig, submit comment – remember
View ArticleStartup Query – Simple School Course Registration?
Any one else out there frustrated with how archaic & arcane high school, college & other school class registration processes still are, especially when done in paper, yes in 2012? If so,...
View ArticleTruthiness Detector – Custom Search Beta
Sites such as Snopes, Fact or Fiction, & Politifact abound. Introducing the ‘truthiness detector’, a search engine for fact-checking sites around the web. First release in series of experiments...
View ArticleDigg Digest – Reddit Record Visits
In an ironic crowd-sourcing twist, the top staff pick from my most recent Digg Digest, was wait for it… wait for it… …that a record number of folks visited reddit on Monday, 1/23/2012 – more than...
View ArticleOmaha Coffee Shops!
Today’s topic? Highlighting the power of mashing up Factual data, BatchGeo geo-encoding, and A.PlaceBetween.Us meetup flashmob planning. Today’s chosen real-world “pain point” app? Discovering coffee...
View ArticleThoughtPuzzle, Forest Road, & Life
A friend recently asked if I’m still blogging at Forest Road. Short answer – yes. More complete answer – swamped since February with founding a company, ThoughtPuzzle LLC. Our primary site is...
View ArticleDisruptive Innovation – On Encountering the Discoverable
Disruptive innovation. What is it? Where does it thrive? My opinion – go to intersection of the possible & probable. A classic 2-dimensional plot simplifies this perspective: Thus, innovations we...
View ArticleTime Travel via Google Custom Search
Google Custom Search enables anyone to create a niche search of the web, also known as a vertical search engine. Google provides many knobs and dials for tuning your niche search engine, such...
View ArticleIdea – Stove Burner Pressure Sensors
Bob, a work-at-home software developer, is hungry. Being a bit rushed that day, he sets the burner on high and brings some soup to a boil. Soup ready, he removes it from the burner and sits down to...
View ArticleEmergency Siren Detectors – Vehicle, Traffic Signals, Mobile Apps
So I’ve wondered about siren sensors at vehicle intersections and other places several times over the last few years. While taking a quick break procrastinating before diving into my next project, I...
View ArticleNegotiating with yourself – or, dreaming about New Year Resolutions
I’ve always creating New Year’s Resolutions to be somewhat passé, especially with respect to the mere act of selecting externally defined goals. I think what perturbs me listening to folks describe...
View ArticleFunction and Control Keys for Life
Most of us have used the copy, paste, redo, & undo functions in our favorite app. The gurus among us like to use keyboard shortcuts for these familiar functions. So what about having some function...
View ArticleFish like a geek
One of my current activities is teaching a technology innovation course in Creighton University’s MBA program. A core part of our discussion focuses on solving business challenges with the most...
View ArticleThe Human Data Torrent
So yeah, everyone’s all excited about storing stuff in the cloud – files, backups, sharing, collaboration, etc. Most of this shift is coming about because (a) bandwidth is becoming cheap and (b)...
View ArticleTransactional Computing – Machines as Dance Partners in the Singularity
Lots of folks talk about the allegedly forthcoming singularity, when we enter the age of transhumanism, cyborgs, and related geekitude. What will we experience? When will it arrive? Is it a real...
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