Ray Lane of venture capital titan, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers, has posted a compelling essay on his “7 Laws for the New Software Landscape”. It’s an excellent piece, and worth reading in its entirety.
But the key messages are delivered in laws 2, 5, and 7. And all of them have to do with [...]
Rod Boothby of Innovation Creators has a typically thoughtful entry on the changing nature of software, in particular the selling of software to large enterprises. The rise of Software as a Service has profound implications for end-users and for IT departments.
The key to selling software and making money is to follow the “KISS” principle, [...]
In a study to be published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, NASA-backed scientists today revealed the first direct proof of the so-called “dark matter” in the universe. Dark matter is a consequence of the observations of the universe and its rate of expansion. “Normal” matter, that makes us the visible universe only accounts for [...]
Second Life is taking on a life of its own as a venue for live music. SL has long been a favorite of the online role-playing game groupies, but in the past year, it has blossomed into a diverse and vibrant mini-economy, and now, a home for music. Both stars, and rising stars feel [...]
More global escapism from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In this case it appears that the study assumed global warming, and ran models to determine how bad it could be at various levels of warmth.
Rising temperatures will increase the risk of forest fires, droughts and flooding over the next two centuries, [...]
