- Danger looks like they are doing a big push for the v2 Sidekick device, Mossberg is also reporting on it today, in addition to this MSNBC article.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5592481/
- this story about generating electricity from ocean waves and tides is pretty interesting, even though the track record for this technology is bleak. If you have ever lived on the ocean you know that it's absolutely relentless and will break down and destroy everything in it's path over time.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/04/BAGN382BIC1.DTL
- Singapore Airlines (along with Virgin Atlantic, handsdown the best airline in the world) has a program that allows fliers to check in for their flights using SMS... if only they could figure out how to get through security as easily (although, don't get me wrong, I'm no advocate of relaxing airport security for the sake of convenience).
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/11594.shtml
- This HBS article about power and ways to wield it is thought provoking. I have a portfolio investment that is causing me a lot of grief right now and I have had to think a lot about how to exercise my influence as an investor for immediate benefit. All too often investors just get frustrated and tell a CEO that this or that is the way it's going to be done, or they enter into endless negotiations with the CEO in order to find some lowest common denominator. In either case the result is hardly what you expect, in the former you end up alienating the CEO and creating animosity between him/her and the board, while the latter produces ineffective results because it is by definition lowest common denominator.
http://www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4290&t=leadership
- Hacking RFID
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1510
- the new Linksys networked storage device captured my attention recently, it's a really cool idea. I was really intrigued to learn that it's running on Linux and this article shows you how to get a bash prompt, something Linksys didn't intend I am quite sure.
http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article85.php
- if you're one of those suckers people who absolutely have to get in on Google from day 1, here's a possible timeline of the actual mechanics of the auction process may play out.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/9316113.htm?1c
- Ed has this post about how VCs don't like surprises, at least the negative kind... that's an understatement. He points out a couple of really good examples of how proactive communication and action rather than reflection are good strategies for communicating with your board.
http://www.beyondvc.com/2004/08/we_dont_like_su.html
- negotiating a balance between technology and privacy
http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=100922
- a friend who is a active duty Marine sent me this, it's a complete asessment of Operation Iraqi Freedom put out by the military. If you are interested in such things, it's a fascinating read that is choked full of extremely detailed information about the planning, fighting and aftermath of the operation. If you are interested only in why I chose to post this today, go to chapter 7 and take a look at the logistics related issues that are discussed, they touch on some of the challenges that the RFID implementation that the DoD has been facing.
http://onpoint.leavenworth.army.mil/
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