Technology
Sweet Golf Simulation!
Ultimate Golf Simulator – BusinessWeek
Beginning at $50,000, the Full Swing Golf simulator lets you play 50 of the world’s most famous courses
Full Swing has an impressive client install list, including Donald Trump, Michael Jordan and Curt Schilling. One day when I can spare the cash, I’m definitely going to invest in a [...]
Geek CEOs Reprised!
Techies Need to Know the Business – BusinessWeek
Technical experts need to be viewed and developed as business professionals early in their careers; at the speed of business today, it’s essential to align every activity to strategy. Increasingly, areas such as information technology and R&D are moving from being cost centers to driving business strategy. [...]
Facebook, IPOs and Turning Down Billions at 23
Web 2.0’s Long Road to IPOs – BusinessWeek
LinkedIn is hewing closely to the Web economy’s new motto on initial public offerings: Easy does it. Founded in 2003, LinkedIn may not sell shares until some time next year. Likewise, social networking site Facebook, worth $15 billion on paper, may not go public until 2010, a company [...]
Who’s Going to Sell Online By Teaching, not Price Slashing?
Web retail sales to dodge effects of slowing economy – News.com
Despite a slowing U.S. economy, online retail sales will continue to grow at double-digit rates for the next several years, but it will begin to take a turn toward maturity by 2012, according to new research from JupiterResearch.
U.S. online retail sales are expected to reach [...]
Internet Explorer 8.0 – Embracing Web Standards
Mozilla VP talks IE 8, Firefox 3
Here’s a good article on News.com about Internet Explorer 8.0 becoming more standards compliant. We are doing multiple web development projects now, from a Seatability website redesign to a completely different ecommerce venture, and this is really giving us fits. We’ve got designs that look great in [...]
Carbonite Saved Me!
I’ve been using Carbonite for a couple years and it is probably the greatest program anyone could ever put on their computer. It runs all the time, but doesn’t make your computer run slow at all. Whenever you add or edit a file, Carbonite will automatically back it up online. It uploads [...]
Mac Spam…uh, I mean Email Marketing Software
Though I’m not a Mac user, there is some awesome software that a good friend of mine just released a massive update for. I have a tough time getting information out to my customers, and this may be the only software that makes me actually wish I had a Mac (did I just publicly [...]
Geek CEOs Are the Wave of the Future!
Luckily, my geek roots are going to help me keep my job.
CEOs Must Know IT–Or Else
A massive study links effective leadership with corporate projects driven by advancement in information technology. However, some doubt whether the current generation of CEOs is able to adapt, able to get their heads around IT. For those who don’t the [...]
Deal of the day: Free 2GB Secure Digital card!
2GB Secure Digital card for $0 | News.blog | CNET News.com:
If anybody out there needs a 2GB SD memory card for their PDA, camera or whatever, you can’t beat free!
Google Analytics & Wordpress
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past month setting up this WordPress blog, and I’ve gone through dozens of plugins to make this page exactly what I want it to be. One thing that it led me to was Google Analytics. I don’t know how Google puts out such amazing software [...]