Archive for March, 2009
Okay, since I’m on the techno lust track today, here is the new Tesla S coupe that has been announced. Hmmm, toss up between this and the Range Rover. Is it just me or is there a significant overlap between “green” and “good design”?
Check out the concept Range Rover that is aiming for 60mpg courtesy of this article over at Fast Company by Ariel Schwartz.
Wow. This thing can get 60mpg??? I’ll believe it when I see it. But I have to say that it triggers some deep techno-lust for this geek.
Thanks to Brad Feld for pointing out this excellent article by Jonah Lehrer titled “How the City Hurts Your Brain…and what you can do about it.” Having recently moved from the Bay area back up to relative country side where I see trees mountains and birds all day, I can attest to much of what [...]
Here are some recent photos from the Red Rocks Nevada Rock Climbing Festival. It was a weekend of rock climbing, road-riding, yoga, and hanging out with friends both new and old. Great weekend. Can’t wait for next years.
I have been working on a cloud computing ecosystem map with my colleagues over at Dealmaker Media and MR Rangaswami kindly agreed to host our map on Sandhill.com. You can read the entire post here. Thanks to MR and his team (Maryann and Stuart) for their help and for all of the people who have [...]
(This was originally posted at http://www.undertheradar.com and I’m cross-posting it here as well.)
Frank Gillett and his team over at Forrester have released “The State Of Emerging Enterprise/SMB Hardware Trends: 2008 To 2009″ reports. You can find them here (Enterprise / SMB). The summary is below with my thoughts added at the bottom:
x86 server virtualization [...]
Under the Radar Round 2 Calls!
As many of you know, I am extremely fortunate to be assisting the Dealmaker Media team as co-chair of the upcoming Under the Radar event on April 24, 2009 in San Francisco. This is round 2 of our call for companies in the cloud computing, virtualization, software as a service, [...]
Knowing Apple and the crazy speculation about their recent alleged touch-screen purchases, I hope that they are finally building an iTablet. I have had some interesting epiphanies lately. My iPhone is actually a much more useful mini-tablet than it is a phone. Honestly, the phone part is not that great. Maybe it was just AT&T [...]
Have you ever googled something and thought “If only I could just ask the computer this question instead of typing in keywords, sifting through pages and pages of crap and finally find THE ANSWER” buried in one of the web pages?” There has got to be a better way. Every science fiction computer has a [...]
(This was originally posted on http://www.undertheradar.com and is being cross-posted here.)
“Are companies getting funded?” The answer still appears to be yes. As long as the market opportunity is solid, the company has an “A” team (or is close to achieving that), and they’re solving real pains for known, addressable customers, the funding still seems to [...]
(This post is being cross-posted here but the original post is at http://www.undertheradar.com/blog)
This April 24, 2009, I’m fortunate to be working with Dealmaker Media who will be hosting the 13th Under the Radar conference. In one day we will present a full roster of innovative startups, tech thought leaders, and REAL enterprise & big media [...]
