Category: tech
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Profile of a hustler: Instantbight.com
David Silverman is the blogger behind instantbight.com, popularized recently for his simple 5 Question Interviews of technorati. Looking at the list you might recognize some people that I mention from time to time: Horace Dediu, Craig Mod, Ethan Marcotte and Dan Adams for example. David has been publishing these short interviews about one a day…
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Big Idea: Financing Space Exploration
I was up late last night and began to consider the problem of funding for scientific research. After learning about disruption theory last year I often look around and think about possibilities of disruption. Big science is ripe for it. Because of my lifelong love of the mysteries of the cosmos I am particularly interested…
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Social Network Audit
After posting my Google+ rant on Google+ I thought more about what kinds of social networking services I use, and how many I have abandoned in the past. I put them all together in the graphic above, separated into three groups (from top to bottom): Currently using (frequency from Left to Right); Infrastructure and Deadpool.…
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My Google+ rant on Google+
My Google+ rant on Google+
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LTU in Japan
For the past four months I have been doing periodic interviews with people involved in the tech industry in Vancouver and BC on my podcast Lining Things Up. So far it has been great, and I have learned a lot about local entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in general. The show (usually) is released every second Thursday.…
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Warner Bros: You are doing it wrong
The wife got me the Harry Potter: The Complete 8-Film Collection boxed (17 discs) set for our anniversary. Yes, well, she got me Lord of the Rings for another anniversary, so it is already well established that she married a total geek. Besides, it is a great present and I hope to enjoy all of…
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Observations on the lack of “free” WiFi in Japan
Above is pictured a sign at (one of) my local Starbucks. Free WiFi is a rare thing here in Japan, at least in the form it takes in North America. There is no lack of internet access points here, but they require you to be able to login using either your home internet providers credentials,…
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b-mobile fail follow up
Following my post from a few days ago I was advised to contact the b-mobile Help Desk. The result can be capsulated in the following two tweets. I am considering my next move and any potential reaction from b-mobile. Re: sb1.tumblr.com/post/158687175… @bmobile_jci‘s service desk says: Yes, the speed is very slow. Consider switching to another…
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Smartphone penetration in Japan: Some numbers
New Straits Times quotes MMRI: Japan’s smart phone sales — 23.3 million this year — account for 56 per cent of the total mobile phone sales of the year Yet, TomiAhonen Consulting, based on Ipsos data, ranks Japan’s smartphone penetration at just 14% per capita, tied 33rd with Brazil and Romania in a ranking of…
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Lining Things Up
My new project: a bi-weekly interview show about creatives and entrepreneurs in Vancouver and greater British Columbia. Just released the first episode. Lining Things Up