heh. or mac os, for that matter.
Month: January 2008
Splashup
another “formerly desktop” app moves to the web. acquisition candidate in 2008. .net based, eww. probably a flash ui talking to a paint.net backend
Remote Wardrobe
ha. TSA-induced innovation. you send them a suitcase full of gear, they inventory it and put it on the web, and you use the site to send your stuff to your destination as needed.
Drone Scavenging
AFRL is developing an electric motor-powered micro air vehicle (MAV) that can “harvest” energy when needed by attaching itself to a power line, temporarily changing its shape to look more like innocuous piece of trash hanging from the cable.
Tesla Founders Blog
Now, you maybe can argue that there are a lot of necessary changes as the company has grown and scaled. And obviously, transitions are always difficult, even with careful planning. But axing nearly the entire executive staff, letting the world’s foremost EV motor engineer go, trimming down the service organization before the job of opening the first service center is done, ripping through the firmware team – and doing it by random firings on a daily basis – are all hard to explain.
tesla is dead. too bad, this would have been awesome to overcome the fascination with internal combustion that erectionally challenged people have
4-Hour Workweek
not sure yet if that guy is a jackass or not, but may likes him, so ‘ill give him a try 🙂
2025 innovation Areas
- Personalized medicine
- Distributed energy
- Pervasive computing
- Nanomaterials
- Biomarkers for health
- Biofuels
- Advanced manufacturing
- Universal water
- Carbon management
- Engineered agriculture
- Security and tracking
- Advanced transportation
i like universal water and distributed power. without those, the rest is pretty meaningless.
Yelp Elite Squad
The Yelp Elite Squad is a small group of “influencers” who use Yelp as their favorite way to talk about what’s great — and not so great — in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. In essence, they are the voices and faces of Yelp, both on and offline. In return for yelping about everything from their favorite restaurants and retail stores to the best doctors, yoga instructors, and hairstylists, we’ve created a nifty program that gives Yelp Elite Squad Members even more reason to go out and spread the Yelp Gospel.
yelp is a cult
Etanercept
It is unprecedented that we can see cognitive and behavioral improvement in a patient with established dementia within minutes of therapeutic intervention. It is imperative that the medical and scientific communities immediately undertake to further investigate and characterize the physiologic mechanisms involved. This gives all of us in Alzheimer’s research a tremendous new clue about new avenues of research, which is so exciting and so needed in the field of Alzheimer’s. Even though this report predominantly discusses a single patient, it is of significant scientific interest because of the potential insight it may give into the processes involved in the brain dysfunction of Alzheimer’s.”
wow. talk about how flexible the brain is.
SupraSphere
SupraSphere Inc., which makes web browser plug-ins that tag and index information such as instant messages and e-mails for investment management firms, plans to release an on-demand version of its software.
David gets some respect.