‘Ideas’ Archive

Major League Baseball Payroll Data Shows More Money Spent on Players Equates to More Team Wins February 21, 2011 2 Comments

Major league baseball (”MLB”) teams over the past 13 years, since the league expanded to its current 30 team format, have been able to spend their way to success in the win column.  Payroll and team win data has shown that the more money a team is willing to spend in a given year, the [...]

The Power of the Meme and How it’s Affecting the News – A Look at Twingly Channels September 1, 2009 No Comments

Twingly, a blog search engine who is dedicated to delivering ’spam free results’ has announced that they’re coming out with a new meme-tracker web application that appears to be a cross between Digg, Techmeme and FriendFeed.  The service appears to function by defining channels for news articles to appear, and then display discussion on those [...]

Boston Startups: WiTricity – Wireless Electricity Has Arrived and is Coming to Your House July 30, 2009 1 Comment

I was taken aback when reading he first piece of language that hits you when visiting WiTricity’s website. It’s language that most corporate websites I visit don’t have in terms of buzz and idealism:
Imagine a future in which wireless electricity makes everyday products more convenient, reliable, and environmentally friendly.
The reality of wireless electricity is [...]

Today in Technology: Thoughts on the Google Chrome OS Play July 8, 2009 No Comments

LOADS of buzz on the Google Chrome OS announcement on the web today. Most likely if you read tech news, you’ve heard about it. Hell if you read any news at all you’ve probably at least seen the headline. Google is adding the Linux Kernel and all if it’s underlying functionality to [...]

Boston Startups: Tipjoy – Social Micro-Payments that Aim to Please June 25, 2009 No Comments

I’ve written about it before on this blog: I really believe that it’s time to begin to break down the walls of free value on the web in the form of excellent media and content.  So with that being said, I get really excited when new ideas around revenue generation within the web realm pop [...]

Today in Technology: More Google Stuff – Google Wave Announced May 28, 2009 No Comments

The newest idea from Google (out of the Sydney office nonetheless): Google Wave, a new communication tool that appears to incorporate Email and instant messaging.  Basically the premise of the tool as I understand it is the you can create a wave, like you’d create a conversation in Gmail, and let other people add content [...]

A Weekend for Awesome Talks from TED May 15, 2009 No Comments

I’m headed to the Bay Area this weekend to see Aimee’s family and have a little engagement party shindig, so I thought I’d share a few of the excellent talks from the TED conference that I consider inspiring and if nothing else, totally interesting. The first one is the famous Malcolm Gladwell ’spaghetti [...]