June 10, 2014 Google annouced its intention to buy Skybox Imaging (aka Skybox) for $500 million. I'm pretty sure I pointed you all to Skybox just a few days ago. Nah. I didn't own stock so you SEC boys can relax. Martha Stewart - I am not.
You Follow the Money
Sure, the lure of better and more up to date imagery for Google…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman Jun 10, 2014
It was a memorable day. Last month this blog and website were offline for exactly 21 days. Is there some magic in this number that is the product of primes?
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Best as anyone can ascertain there was no technical reason for this. All the technical dots and tittles were thoroughly checked, double checked, and then triple checked by multiple “experts” from multiple companies. No problem. BUT
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Tench Tilghman
May 27, 2014
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If you’re a Maker of things, this matters. It’s a form of AMBER alert too as the red-haired stepchild triumphs. We all love discontinuous innovation and Production Solutions.
I caught this nifty news tidbit late last month while the cadpilot site was in Neverland. I had no real way to chat it up.Times Change…
Some…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman May 20, 2014
Enough happens to us all. Enough is personal and powerfully social. My month of April was enough.
Enough is experiential like sex, money, and father or mother. This sort of word purposefully means different things. Money doesn’t mean the same thing to a ten-year old as it does to me. Meaning depends on our current context.
In…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman May 16, 2014
I want you to consider and have some fun with the following thoughts.
Beware of people who want to scare you about these powerful new “surveillance” technologies. They want you to confuse intention with reality and therefore confuse your sense of the expected with the unexpected. Huh?
Intent and Accusation
“They are out to get us all.”
The favorite new…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman May 12, 2014