In a past life, I was a consultant at a startup company that was into a little bit of everything: seed corn, junk machinery, and had recently become associated with a guy from Tenn. named Bill Felknor. Bill invented the  Whirley Popper, an aluminum pot with a split lid and a hand crank through [...]

SiliconValley.com yesterday reported: “Call it Ho Chi Minh City’s “Little San Jose.” Longtime Silicon Valley residents bump into each other along fashionable Dong Khoi Street. They meet to swap business cards and network at Highlands Coffee, the Starbucks of Vietnam. For decades, the Vietnamese who settled in Silicon Valley and the leaders of Vietnam [...]

It is estimated than more than 50 million PCs around the world are now silently controlled by spammers and criminal gangs. These “zombie” PCs as they are called, are just normal PCs owned by Moms and Pops that have been taken over by malware secretly downloaded onto the PCs using web exploits, infected emails [...]

In comments to yesterday’s blog, Nwokedi suggests omnision as a “better mousetrap” when it comes to synch of video and Powerpoints for next Friday’s MidTerm presentations. You be da judge! [The sample I chose does not present both, but Marc has great history!] Hank
 

VCASMO is “online presentation” tool that supports building a new communication experience based on “multimedia + slide”. It is the best that I’ve seen [Zentation up to now] for mashing up a synchronized video-slide/Powerpoint presentation. For my ENTR200K students, think seriously about using VCASMO for your MidTerm presentations next Friday. The sample below, is [...]

This Happy Friday is a public service announcement Hank

Some interesting conceptual overlap with Predictive Markets in terms of methods of aggregating and filtering data vs. “expertise.” Is this the death of “experts?” Read on…..——————————————————————————–According to a new book by Ian Ayres, an econometrician and law professor at Yale, thre is a powerful trend that will shape the economy for years to come: the [...]

Benton County has a fully operational group of 87 wind turbines near Raub, Indiana [44 miles NW of Purdue]. At 22 mph wind speed, the turbines produce about 90 megawatts of energy. Consisting of a concrete base, tower, and hub housing the generator and blades, the total height from base to a blade is [...]

This past Saturday, Mythilli won the Women 2.0 Pitch Contest @ Stanford University. She pitched the startup she is CEO of, Koollage. Her bio is here:
So what’s Koollage all about? Killerstartups states:
Koollage is a new way of getting info to your mobile. Koollage uses micromedia content in the form of pods or plogs (playable blogs) [...]

The idea for this blog entry, and part of the content including the graphic left, came from here:
An area that should be big for marketers, smart businesspeople, and entrepreneurs,  is helping Boomers exercise their brains (see here last year, for example). This article from The New York Times sheds new light on the [...]