David Pitkin

My new browser homepage is Umair’s “How to Build a Next-Gen Business Now”. Reading the comments I found this amazing gem, hope you like it even 5% as much as I do:

Open innovation and Nokia Philosophy, Dr. Bob Iannucci, CTO of Nokia and Head of Nokia Research Center. from DevilsRejection on Vimeo.

[edit] the peak oil title was lame

I love my energy detective. It is a display that shows our household electricity usage converted to $/kWH all the time. My favorite usage so far is checking when I leave the house to ensure that the usage is below 0.10$/Hour, if its higher we forgot something left on. I wanted to share the Groton Electric settings for it… if you pay your bill early (10% discount included)

Tiered Rates T1 (0-500 kWh) = 0.0612 + 0.0088 + 0.03157 + 0.01842 – 0.0126 = 0.10739 T2 (>500kWh) = 0.0717 + 0.0088 + 0.03157 + 0.01842 -0.0126 = 0.11789 Annual Charge = 0 Fixed Monthly = 0 Min. Monthy = 5.62 Tax Rate = 0%

My meter is read on the 23rd of each month, all this information was easily available from Groton Electric

A few pictures of installing mine, don’t forget that the red dots on the clamps need to be on in the same direction.

I wonder where this blog now belongs… I could upgrade Typo to the latest version, which would fix some interactions. I could turn it into the new trendy thing which is a lifestream like Jaiku. When I started the blog if you had something you wanted to publish online it was not easy. Now with Twitter/Facebook/FriendFeed/Google Reader I can pretty quickly share an idea and get lots of feedback without the overhead of a blog post.

It has begun, the special sauce that was facebook is fading. Things like not sending the content of a message or a wall post to your email box and just sending a link to the information on the site has now changed, due to user feedback.

via: Publishing 2.0

This allows me to interact with the real world and the internet in a great way, even better is if at that link I can leave a comment, or imagine the GPS coordinates where I found the link.

The address book/activity stream/presence will be a foundation of a great application, in this category plaxo has some strenght but being able to resolve/sync find conflicts between your IM, facebook, linkedin, mobile and email contact list will really start to make the mainstream user enabled by this technology instead of being overwhelmed.

I thought I would throw this up after seeing it on Thoughtfix. This is my bag for the Web 2.0 summit, I try to pack super light which is why I also like my N95 so much. I think the DS might get left in the car at the airport but we will see. I hate running out of juice hence the inflightpower gizmo and the CA-100 chargers. I also debated taking my MacBook but the NINE hours of battery in my work laptop wins out for a cross country journey. I would need four batteries to get that out of this notebook computer. Wish me luck and you can follow on jaiku. I wish I had an invite to the Nokia breakfast, anyone know anyone who will be there?

I lost the LD-3W that came with my N800 Navigation kit on one of my trips, I just forgot it on the dash of a rental car. So here is the unboxing of the fancy new LD-4W from mobileplanet.com.

The box front and back and then the contents of inside . And here is all the stuff the karabiner that it comes with is a joke, brittle crappy plastic the device itself is awesome it is a perfect size and the addition of the hole allows you to actually use it with a suction cup and not have it awkwardly around like the old style. . It has soft rubber on the back so it does not slide around and uses the standard 2.5mm charging cable that most Nseries devices now use.

Native Eyewear has great customer care, I lost and broke a pair of sunglasses and they have done everything right to keep me as a customer after a few accidental mistakes on their part their attention to detail has been great.

If you are looking for some active sunglasses with replaceable lenses look no further, lifetime warranty for 30$ no matter what you do to break your glasses and fantastic optics.

They might want to update their Event schedule.