Google Google Announces PowerMeter Partners Google.org has just announced an international roster of partners for their PowerMeter gadget. PowerMeter is "a Google gadget that can show consumers their personal electricity consumption right on a home computer," according to today's announcement on the Google Blog. "Our software relies on 'smart meters' (or other metering devices) as a data… Jolie O'Dell View comments
Digital Lifestyle Business Cards Suck: Try These Tools Instead Business cards are a horror show. When it gets to the point that you have to either resort to a die-cut, motion-sensitive, titanium-plated laser show of a card or get your contact info embossed on beef jerky to avoid being forgotten in the trash heap of useless swag and Clif Bar crumbs at the bottom of some biz dev guy's carry-on, we think it's… Jolie O'Dell View comments
Gritty Entrepreneurs Finding the Right Wave to Ride (Secular Trends) This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. Surfing sure sounds like more fun than work, but when you catch a technology or market wave just right, it seems almost as good. But you need the right-sized wave: Bernard Lunn View comments
mobile All Phones Are (Or Will Be) Smartphones - So Now What? According to a new report from tech research firm Forrester, the smartphone as a standout mobile category is a shaky paradigm with rapidly shifting parameters. The emergence of mobile operating systems, the ability to install and run third-party apps, and the wide availability of multimedia features (camera phones, video phones, and MP3-playing… Mobile Jolie O'Dell View comments
Google Gmail Now Automatically Translates Messages As Well As Could Be Expected Gmail Labs has done it once again. A new feature introduced today allows users to automatically translate emails into English and any other supported language. Sort of. As with any non-human inter-linguistic interpretations, the messages suffer in translation. But thanks to this new feature, you'll be able to get the gist of the Cyrillic text in… Jolie O'Dell View comments