Tyler Whitaker’s InfoTech

Do you dream of living “Off the Grid?” Check out this solution for fresh water that is reminiscent of the moisture farms on Tatooine. Aqua Sciences, Inc. has a technology that can product up to 500 gallons of fresh water a day from the moisture in the air.
FEMA already have 2 of these $500,000 units [...]

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What do you get when you combine the human intelligence behind Amazon’s MTurk and Google’s clean and accurate approach to web searching: ChaCha.com
For a search engine ChaCha.com provides a clean interface and good results. But what is interesting is the human intelligence that’s injected into the equation. Can’t find what you need with other search [...]

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I just got the chance to listen to Greg Gianforte’s talk the 2006 MySQL User’s Conference. Greg has a great grasp of what it takes to bootstrap a company. I love the sell first, build second approach to product development. After all, if you can’t sell it, what’s the purpose in building it.
Here’s a link to [...]

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I just stumbled upon an interesting consumer voice mail business called GotVoice. They offer a free service to have your home of cell phone voice mail sent to your email in the form of an mp3 file.
I had this years ago at Echopass called unified messaging. We had voice mail and fax all sent to [...]

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It’s that time of year again to get a flu shot. Like every year I recently went down to my doctor’s office, and was reminded why traditional health care is so screwed up. Despite being organized with a special “flu shot clinic”, it still took me 25 minutes just to get past the waiting room. [...]

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