In the wake of Steve Job’s passing, the term ‘disruptive technology’ has been thrown about in reference to the iPhone, and how it changed the smartphone industry.  Disruptive technology is a term coined by Clayton M. Christensen that describes a real innovation, one that creates a new market and value network, and that fundamentally changes [...]

Brad wrote about email overload a couple of posts ago, and I went looking for an easy solution to an endemic problem. (Hugh McLeod: “I do the work for free. I get paid to deal with all the emails.”)
A friend sent me to emailga.me, currently only available for Gmail.  It turns your inbox into a [...]

Jaron Lanier, one of the pioneers in the field of virtual reality (he popularized the term) and influential computer scientist, wrote a book called You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto that set off a debate about technology’s role that continues to this day.
Lanier is an important figure for the same reason that he’s hard [...]

All of us here at Starshot wish you a very merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!  In the spirit of the holiday season, Brad and Brad (the Managing Partners) decided to don their 70s best for a cozy fireside photo shoot.
You can view the photo album here or by clicking the image.
Thanks go out to [...]

A fantastic article came out of the New York Times last week called Little Brother is Watching.
It’s brief, but it summarizes the strange world of communications technology we live in today, a world that George Orwell never imagined.  Walter Kirn writes it (author of the book Up in the Air, adapted into that movie with [...]

Last Thursday I had a conversation with a client about their web presence, and we inevitably started talking about publishing, content, design, and of course, WordPress.  It’s usually really fun talking about WordPress to newbies, but this time the client just looked at me skeptically.  He just wasn’t buying it.
It’s a blogging platform?  And a [...]

It’s not easy for event marketers to promote an event, but sometimes it’s just as hard for event attendees to convince their bosses they should attend an event.  Especially if there are expensive registration, airfare, and hotel costs involved.
Salesforce.com came up with a smart way to help attendees convince their bosses they should attend Dreamforce [...]

Yesterday I stumbled on a fabulous little tool (it just came out last week) called screenr.com that lets you record screencasts of up to 5 minutes in length.  It’s so simple to use:  enter your twitter credentials, and then press “record.”  The tool runs inside your browser, and when you’re finished recording your voice and [...]