Derek Scruggs

One of the big memes of the whole Web 2.0/social media phenomenon as it relates to business is the importance of listening. Stop talking about how great you are and start listening. To your customers, your advisors, your employees, the blogosphere - you get the drift.
But what do you do if they don’t say anything? […]

So I’m reading this article about how melting ice in Antarctica is raising the sea levels. Pretty scary stuff, but I got distracted from fretting about global warming when I read how they measure it:

The study, published in the journal Science, results from a new way of investigating Antarctica’s ice sheet by measuring changes in […]

Brad Feld (actually, his uncle Charlie) says “we need another Sputnik” to spur the next great wave of innovation, which in turn will keep us competitive with China and India.
I predict it will be something around alternative energy. There is absolutely no way China, which wants all the trappings of the good life in the […]

This is pretty cool. I new NewsGator allowed you to post to weblogs. What I didn’t know is that NewsGator supports WordPress. Actually, it supports b2, but WordPress is an open-source spinoff of b2, so NewsGator supports WordPress by default. Try it yourself.

Leo Notenboom recently turned me on to WebDrive, and I love love love it. In a nutshell, it allows you to mount an FTP site as a hard drive, so your applications treat it just like any other hard drive. It’s very handy when editing HTML. Just open the file from the remote computer, edit […]

If you’re not technical, this will be over your head (it’s a bit over mine). But it’s a great read and really makes sense. Google’s engineers think at a whole ‘nother level from us mere application developers.