Tag Archives for innovation
On Ad Blocking
Here‘s a whole treatise against the concept. It’s the same old stuff we’ve heard from the RIAA for years. ArsTechnica is leading the way in the arcane DRM model of making their content crash if you’re using an ad blocker. … Continue reading
JooJoo Is Going To Fail
Ignoring all the TechCrunch fluff, this thing is going to crash and burn. Why? No local storage means it’s basically a $500 screen with a battery and a buggy interface. A castrated netbook (which in themselves are pretty impotent.) The … Continue reading
Rethinking Building Homes
Very cool. Martell Home Builders are rethinking the way families purchase homes. In short, the builder facilitates, rather than dictates. Strict timeline. 99 days. Excellent for an industry that has long thrived on perpetual delays. Makes a complex process transparent … Continue reading
Arquilla in Foreign Policy
John Arquilla takes on the failure of military innovation in this great article. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Real World Hollywood Stock Exchange
A friend made a killing in pretend dollars on the pretend part of this game. Maybe this effort to securitize the real world movie business can yield him a real world fortune? For years, Cantor Fitzgerald, a Wall Street investment … Continue reading