‘Firelight Labs’ Archive

Yet another crinkle in the AT&T – Google relationship August 7, 2009 No Comments

This is a guest post by Luke Owen, Editor over at an excellent music blog, Hip2beSquare:
It started out as an innocent birthday gift from my girlfriend (now bride to be) and my family and slowly turned into a business case report if only I was in business school. My usual rant is revolved around [...]

Today in Technology: Eying Q1 2009 as the Bottom of the Tech Recession? July 22, 2009 No Comments

The global economic downturn this past year or so has brought obvious panic to the technology market, especially the startup and small company environment, where companies have historically been less concerned with revenue models and more concerned with venture investment and acquisitions.  Economic sentiment got so bad at points that many of the more venerable [...]

Today in Technology: Facebook’s Search Problems – The Need for Facebook Real-Time News Feed Search July 16, 2009 1 Comment

Today I once again encountered a familiar problem.  I was going through my morning routine, and decided to go through a bunch of my old email that had been lying around for some time now.  I came across a Facebook email that said my friend Sarah Marshall (no, not the movie) had shared a link [...]

Boston Startups: uTest – QA from the Crowd – What Else Can the Crowd Provide? July 7, 2009 1 Comment

Crowd sourcing, like open source software development, has been an attractive idea to me for some time, since I was full time at Black Duck Software, helping companies manage their software IP.  Recently, I’ve had my eye on community and crowd powered service providers, the most talked about of which is Southborough, MA based uTest [...]

Blogging Down East Maine April 22, 2009 1 Comment

Here we are (as @taylorbarstow likes to say), in the middle of nowhere, but absolutely beautiful Down East Maine Coast. I’m writing this from Stonington on Deer Isle, right on Penobscot Bay. We started our trip in Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park on Mt Desert Island, which was awesome, though the weather [...]

Kindle 2 Sales Numbers Surface, puts 2nd Gen Kindle ahead of 2nd Gen iPod April 16, 2009 3 Comments

Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has posted some Kindle sales numbers that he’s come across:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/16/300000-kindle-2s-sold-to-date/
This is something that I’ve been following closely, since Jeff Bezos and other Amazon employees haven’t divulged the sales numbers for the device since it came out.  Reasons for this probably revolve around the potential for people to make comparisons between the [...]

Unbiasd.com Adds Video to Site’s Homepage March 18, 2009 No Comments

Check it out if you get a second: http://unbiasd.com. Unbiasd – the site focused on news media bias has quickly transformed into a news video site.
Also, I’ve added a Music section to this blog, sort of an ‘adrianmott.com radio’ of sorts – Here, I’ll feature music I’m currently listening to, as well as video [...]