The Zeitgeist

Fusion IO showed off their new storage product at the Fall DEMO show last week (I love DEMO, my former startup DropZone Networks was DEMOMobile’s featured Wireless startup in 2004) and they blew everyone away with their new card which when it ships will put an amazing 640 GIGABYTES of NAND Flash memory onto a [...]

Tags: DEMO, DropZone Networks, FusionIO, Storage

This moronic kerfuffle over Ahmadinejad’s rant at Columbia has jumped the shark. Now, both Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and the NY State / NYC Governments want to punish Columbia University by pulling their funding and through other censures and sanctions. Hmmmm…. Well, well, well, remember this…?
Congress shall make no law respecting an [...]

Rogue Amoeba has announced a really nifty new product called RadioShift. This program for OS X will allow you to browse AM/FM radio stations around the world and set up programs to be recorded off the web, OR, if you have a Griffin Technology RadioShark, you can record them over the air.
I’ve been a [...]

Apparently a 6th grader, Arjun Mehta,  in San Jose landed $6.5M in a series A round round led by Easton Capital, Menlo Ventures, STIC and Novel TMT Ventures for his idea of an in-game commerce system called Playspan.
My first reaction is a combination of “Wow… smart kid!” and “Holy crap.. we ARE [...]

[update: Several "Wall St Insider" type sites claim this letter is a hoax... digging a little deeper, several of the people named in the letter can actually be found on LinkedIn and are working at JPMC according to their LinkedIn profiles. However, even if this is a hoax, there are plenty of people [...]

Security: don’t even get me started on the security challenges in an environment full of widgets, gadgets and 3rd party web services. Suffice it to say that when this rock gets turned over, lots of ugly stuff creepy-crawly things will slither out.- Chris Keene blogging on the state of AJAX in general and on his [...]

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
–Edmund Burke
A student, asking a question of John Kerry during a post-speech Q&A session at the University of Florida is TASERED for asking a question about impeaching George Bush, and John Kerry stands by and does NOTHING. Naomi Wolf delivers [...]

The NYTimes has killed of their ill-considered “Times Select” service (dubbed a “paywall” by most observers). Thanks goodness, I say: About freakin’ time!
What was shocking to me about Times Select was how clear it was that the NYTimes management just didn’t get the idea that putting its single most valuable [...]

Google is offering a US$30MM prize to any private group that successfully lands a probe on the lunar surface and returns high-resolution video imagery. Personally I think it would be great, anything that opens up space and helps expand our horizons is great… sadly, I think the minute that really starts to (pardon [...]

The Jedi waved his hand and said “This is not the site you are looking for… if you’re looking for that movie, that is…”