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Posted in bitcoin, Uncategorized on Mar 25th, 2013
Executive Summary This post proposes the notion of a Collateralized Identity which ties a value asset balance and its history to a globally unique identifier. Such a CID thus becomes a means to verify the identity’s age and balance history and can eliminate the problem of disposable sockpupptet identities. Further, it proposes to use bitcoin [...]
Posted in bitcoin, Uncategorized on Nov 20th, 2012
Coinabul.com is a precious metals retail sales site where users can buy gold and silver coins and bars online with bitcoin. Products are mailed to customers using insured deliveries. Tonight, I spoke on the phone with Jay Shore, the founder and principal of the company. I wanted to find out more about the company [...]
Posted in bitcoin, technology, Uncategorized on Jul 28th, 2012
This post first published at V3 Integrated Marketing. Mobile payments are on the rise, so it only makes sense that new forms of digital currency are popping up, too. One kind of digital currency you may already know about is Bitcoin, a P2P cryptocurrency created by Satoshi Nakamoto. One of the biggest questions surrounding digital currency (aside [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 3rd, 2012
Today, Chris Bailey published People Before Tools: Creating a Better Remote Working System, which was a commentary on a previous post, Stop whining and start hiring remote workers, by David Heinemeier Hansson at 37signals. I dropped a comment on both posts because I feel strongly that management inertia and insecurity, not tools or “culture” are the primary reasons [...]
Posted in development, social media, technology, Uncategorized on Dec 21st, 2011
Last evening, I exchanged a few tweets with the folks at Janetter (@Janetter_jp), the Twitter client I just installed on my MacBook. Overall, I really like Janetter. It is a big improvement over Tweetdeck, which got bought a few months ago by Twitter, and now appears to have been put in stasis. The folks at Jane, [...]
Posted in ecology, personal, Uncategorized on Nov 10th, 2011
So, here we are, a full week after I posted the last animation of the restoration of Connecticut’s “Snoctober” electricity disaster, and just 177 of the original 800,000+ CL&P customers remain without power. I have friends around the state on Twitter that were a full 9 days without electricity. Please keep in mind when watching [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 3rd, 2011
This is a short animation of the Connecticut Light & Power outage map. It begins on Monday, Oct. 31 at about 2 pm and proceeds in very roughly 2 hour increments (except for “sleep time”) until this morning, Thursday, Nov. 3 at about 7am. I made this by taking screen shots of the map with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 11th, 2011
On the anniversaries of tragic events, it’s eventually asked what we learned from that event. From 9-11, I hope we have learned the liabilities of faith. The hijackers who piloted the airplanes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and into that Pennsylvania field did so because they were sold on the idea that their [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 21st, 2011
When the earthquake, tsunami and resulting nuclear reactor situations happened in Japan, people on Twitter sprang into action. Even before the aftershocks tapered off, people were giving to the Red Cross and other charities to help the disaster victims. While money is fine to give, money is not what Japan needs, really. People displaced or [...]
Posted in development, social media, technology, Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2011
I’ve been working on a little SaaS project I call AdTraqr that helps advertisers determine which ad placements are most effective. It employs those darlings of Japan, QR codes, which were invented by a Toyota subsidiary to track parts inventory. Here’s one that points to my About.me profile page: The way AdTraqr works is that [...]
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