Something dragged me into the bookstore the other day, and $53 later I know what it was. Hunter S. Thompson is a strange bird, and throughout his life he has kept and filed carbon copies of every letter that ever belched forth from his typewriter. He also filed all of...
WAPathy. [see below] I wish I’d thought of this term. Bryan Robertson calls WAP the “Internet in My Pants”. I wish I’d thought of that, too. Those few of you bored enough to read this list know how I feel about WAP. It’s not so much that...
This is suspiciously like what happened to someone I know very well who dealt with an Idealab! company. Perhaps Bill Gross conducts seminars on how to pull the ol’ contract switcheroo when hooking up talent. -Ian....
So, when your company is going belly up, it there really any point whatsoever in suing another company who, in similar fashion, is also going belly up? Well, that’s the Idealab! way. At Idealab! they’re pretty big on patents for stupid things, exploiting...
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/globaltrends2015/index.html 2015 Outlook: Enough Food, Scarce Water, Porous Borders By ELAINE SCIOLINO [NYT] WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 – In a sweeping projection of what the world will look like in 2015, the intelligence community...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.
