Articles on: Technology

A Delicious addition to Web Browsing

  photo by shoothead  One of the fun things about the internet are all of the unusual (and sometimes clever) names that companies have developed for their products.  Some are fairly obvious (like YouTube or LinkedIn), some just sound interesting (like Squidoo or Gumshoo).  Somewhere in the middle is Delicious (originally Del.icio.us) a Social Bookmarking […]

How to claim your name – and get found!

  photo by Blue.Steel  Over this past weekend, Facebook launched the capability to claim your name as a vanity extension (i.e. www.facebook.com/yourname).   To give you an idea of what this means – Facebook had 200,000 names registered…in the first 10 minutes (launching at midnight).  Within an hour, over 1 Million names had been claimed and […]

Kansas City Startup Weekend – Ideas taking flight!

  photo by jurvetson  The American way is the creative and entrepreneurial spirit that remains strong even in the face of a terrible economy, bad news and a lot of reasons for people to be depressed. I was fortunate enough to participate in the Kansas City Startup Weekend this past weekend and I came away […]

Cool new application – Do you have a Dropbox?

  Do you have a desktop computer at your house and a laptop for work (or multiple work or home computers)? Do you ever have a situation where you need to transfers files from one computer to another? How about sharing files with other people that you’re working with, or making files available for a […]

Innovation is the Saving Grace

Photo from apple.com  I don’t care what anyone else says – we are living in absolutely amazing and fascinating times!  I totally believe that innovation is going to continue to drive us to fantastic heights (it may take a while and be painful in the interim, but there’s a lot to look forward to). I […]

Where does all that time go?

There’s an old management adage – “You can’t manage what you can’t measure”. This can be overstated (and make things way too complicated sometimes), but in general it’s hard to make improvements, in fact it’s even hard to know how you’re doing if you’re not measuring some key things. As an example, one of the […]