en-us http://www.intensedebate.com/users/7287 Comments by Lou Paglia http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/10/startup-visa-stories.html#IDComment39945498 Still wonder whether it is the entrepreneur leaving to go back to their country is the biggest loss for the US or the same thing happening with people in the sciences who get their PhD's in their respective discipline and doing phenomenal research to just have to go back their countries. This happens every year as well and should very much be part of this conversation. Both are big losses for the US and are potentially very correlated. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:26:38 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/10/startup-visa-stories.html#IDComment39945498 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/07/my-daily-atlas-shrugged-moment.html#IDComment28829021 Absolutely agree, Atlas Shrugged moments are coming from all angles right now. I have to stop writing now or I am going to get upset. Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:53:33 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/07/my-daily-atlas-shrugged-moment.html#IDComment28829021 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2009/06/10/newspaper-harakiri/#IDComment24268797 exactly, if I want this type of investment, I would just have bought GM stock. Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:11:28 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2009/06/10/newspaper-harakiri/#IDComment24268797 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2009/05/05/star-trek-criticized/#IDComment20890783 can honestly say Star Trek is something that never caught my attention or interest Wed, 6 May 2009 16:20:16 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2009/05/05/star-trek-criticized/#IDComment20890783 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/05/my-airplane-super-power.html#IDComment20453873 Sleeping on planes until reaching their destination? That is a pretty impressive super power. Nothing worse than waking up (when you want to sleep) and realizing that you are only halfway there. Sun, 3 May 2009 00:27:48 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/05/my-airplane-super-power.html#IDComment20453873 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2009/03/23/newssift-first-impressions-matter-in-search/#IDComment17590299 I drove it a bit myself. Very interesting what they are doing but you are right, you have to understand what the engine is doing (i.e. adding additive filters as you click in the categorical navigation). It is striking how similar to the approach is the Search 2.0 product features that Dow Jones Factiva had when I was there; we launched that in 2005. But similar visualization based filtering using index-based search and further filtering capability. I do like the addition of sentiment into the equation that FT shows. There simply needs to more progress made in this space, the content sets are increasing exponentially, far faster than the advanced search/filter analysis tools out there. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:41:12 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2009/03/23/newssift-first-impressions-matter-in-search/#IDComment17590299 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2009/03/22/facebook-and-the-nature-of-power-struggles-in-social-networking/#IDComment17416923 First, completely agree with you. These social platforms are only as good as the content generated. People need Facebook more than Facebook needs its users (for now), and Facebook will use this method until something better comes along, is competitive and solves users' pain points. Second, I find it remarkable that this is the first comment on this post and this post has been on the cover of Techmeme all day. I think this continues to be a point of the decentralization of conversation and quite honestly, fragmentation. I find myself checking six different places now when I make a comment to see if it is being discussed in a different platform, completely insane. How many levels of aggregation, normalization and abstraction can we have on user-generated content? I think we are finding out. Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:18:27 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2009/03/22/facebook-and-the-nature-of-power-struggles-in-social-networking/#IDComment17416923 http://gluecon.ipower.com/blog/?p=33#IDComment17109047 I think we now need to define what 'easy' means in this space. Sending an email is easy. Searching on Google is easy. Writing code for the everyday web user is not easy. The everyday consumer and prosumer just want stuff to work, they don't even want the acronyms. See RSS. But the development community who is going to drive the platform development and much of the cloud agenda as more consumer facing services are developed on top of it are the ones that are going to have to deal with this stuff and make it as easy as possible for other developers in the ecosystem to develop using their cloud-based solutions. And yes, they are going to want it to be easier, on demand and have as little hiccups as possible. I compare the cloud development environment similar to the generations of compilers and integrated development environments. But this stuff is going to stay away from 'mom'. It has to. Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:01:48 +0000 http://gluecon.ipower.com/blog/?p=33#IDComment17109047 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/03/cloud-computing-streak-marks.html#IDComment17084739 First, the title of this post alone should bring them in by the thousands! Second, we are going to have two different sets of adoption/use problems in the cloud. On the "enterprise" side, I'm confident that these will be worked out. The API is not a new concept and while some of the technical problems will be new ones, I think collaboration between development groups will get us through the lion share. There will be problems though, all new things bring them, just like APIs continue to demand that throttling and access being managed thoughtfully. On the "consumer" side, problems take one a much bigger issue because users, for the most part, are not going to debug errors being thrown in the browser due to implementation problems. This will be no different than with using web sites. Most people do not going looking through URI encoding or name value pairs in the query string to figure out why there is an issue. I know my mom isn't going to, like most, she is going to say "this isn't working" and then call me. Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:06:40 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/03/cloud-computing-streak-marks.html#IDComment17084739 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/03/daily-data.html#IDComment16563461 Thanks Brad. Clear that as long as there is mutual trust and thus expectation setting, it is a best practice to have this data available to all. I would suspect also it makes board meetings that more productive and strategic because members already have solid gauge on trends and thus the summary reports are review. The rest of the (if everyone has this background) can be put to greater discussion points such as action steps and strategic conversations. Thanks for the list of data points, this will prove useful for anyone thinking through management/board dashboard initiatives. Sun, 8 Mar 2009 16:15:31 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/03/daily-data.html#IDComment16563461 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/03/daily-data.html#IDComment16403594 Brad: My question takes a different angle. While transparency between board and the company is critical to move the company forward and all the information is shared transparently at board meetings anyway, it also seems with daily data transparency, there has be strong implicit trust to make this data readily available. Without it, it seems there is a risk that daily data going to all increases the risk to not giving the team time to digest, react and move accordingly before board involvement. How do you balance how you use the data and when you "get involved" based on the data? Would be interested in your perspective. Fri, 6 Mar 2009 20:44:34 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/03/daily-data.html#IDComment16403594 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/01/entering-data.html#IDComment14516273 Brad: Definitely flipping the equation will help. Users have the data store centrally (perhaps cloud-based) and then configure the services to come and retrieve so that they can do their thing. At a minimum, this is why data portability has to take hold. Earlier this week, I was speaking with Jeff Nolan and we got to talking about Teqlo. While I was intrigued about their concept, I thought it was ahead of its time because the average consumer isn't going to build their own application (or at least they need something where they don't even know they are building an application.) Kind of like everyone doesn't know they are using RSS right? :) Anyway, something Teqlo-like would be interesting. Have a weight module where you populate your central data store and it has data rights to deploy those couple pieces of data out to those services. Synchronization (and synchronization rights) could be another killer platform capability in this realm once it takes off. Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:10:11 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/01/entering-data.html#IDComment14516273 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2009/01/28/stimulus-or-spending-gone-wild/#IDComment14429589 absolutely the latter. not sure how we justify a tax break to those that do not pay taxes and call it stimulus. really dislike making comments on this type of stuff because everyone has an opinion on it, but i fear this is a package we could look back as a fiscal maneuver that we will regret (and that is if the prior bail outs were not already of the ilk). Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:00:12 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2009/01/28/stimulus-or-spending-gone-wild/#IDComment14429589 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/01/im-done-with-handshakes.html#IDComment14427263 All I know is that this comment thread has to be beyond even what Brad imagined. 51 (sorry 52) comments to this point on a thread about colds and hand shakes. A great post on VC or angel money in Entrepreneur magazine, nine comments! What is going on? Brad, seems the time has come for you to file a patent on the "anti-handshake", a methodology or process patent on all acts of greeting (eg elbow bumps) sans handshake. We know how you feel about patents. Go further, with two elbow touches, perhaps our group can test out Apple's patent claim on "multi-touch"! Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:23:20 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/01/im-done-with-handshakes.html#IDComment14427263 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/01/im-done-with-handshakes.html#IDComment14403933 Brad: I'm willing to consider signing up for this movement, I just wish there was a way to tell each other apart. You know the non-hand shakers from the hand shakers. How do you avoid insulting the hand shakers if they do not have previous knowledge of this new stance? :) One question: Will an entrepreneur get positive points when they walk into that first meeting with you and try to elbow bump? :) Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:28:34 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/01/im-done-with-handshakes.html#IDComment14403933 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/01/an-apple-in-the-white-house.html#IDComment14262194 OS/2, blast from the past. I remember, when interning at Time Life, a debate with a systems engineer where he believed OS/2 was going to beat Windows in the long run. That was all that ran on the computers of the tech group. Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:49:31 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/01/an-apple-in-the-white-house.html#IDComment14262194 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2009/01/21/solar-industry-growth-dimming-with-economy/#IDComment14257893 Jeff, the other issue facing solar and other alternative energy sources is funding for the grid. I wrote a post on this just other day, a recent article in the Tech Review had some pretty disturbing evidence that even if sources have find the funding and successfully generate the energy, the grid cannot distribute it appropriately. If the web is a good indicator (and it may not be), should we not be funding the platform first so that we can leverage what ever alternative energy source or source provider? Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:02:34 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2009/01/21/solar-industry-growth-dimming-with-economy/#IDComment14257893 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/01/an-apple-in-the-white-house.html#IDComment14237225 Great idea on making the bold move to get Apple into the White House. The technology should be top-tier there of all places. What will good to watch here is how much the administration is hamstrung and how much they can change about the situation. This should be something fairly straight-forward and controllable to move things to next generation technologies (cost concerns aside). Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:13:51 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/01/an-apple-in-the-white-house.html#IDComment14237225 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2009/01/08/obama-asks-to-delay-digital-tv-transition/#IDComment13820568 This is a key indicator of the problems we face when we say we want to be an innovative nation. When something regarding technology advancement has been planned and discussed as this much has, as we still have the uncertainty factor slowing our progress, it makes me question what changes can we honestly think we are going to to make. People make bold comments on who we can move to Green Tech nation-wide? We think changes a digital signal to televisions is difficult and people need to be prepared. What do we think is involved in moving to a new energy source. Something to think about. Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:25:26 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2009/01/08/obama-asks-to-delay-digital-tv-transition/#IDComment13820568 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2009/01/04/israels-location-based-warning-service/#IDComment13647268 this is, of course, making the assumption that the ordinance hits the intended building from which all the calculations were derived. this logic did not fair too well with our financial markets. Mon, 5 Jan 2009 18:50:40 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2009/01/04/israels-location-based-warning-service/#IDComment13647268