If This Then That (IFTTT)
A little more than five years ago, a couple of tech entrepreneurs in San Francisco got the idea to develop something new. The idea was to create a free web-based service which allows users to create chains of simple conditional statements, called applets, which are triggered based on changes to other web services such as Gmail, Facebook, or Weather Underground. They […]
Apple Music and Sonos Coming Together
It’s here. Sonos has been working with Apple Music to bring us a new way of filling our homes with an enormous selection of great music. This morning, the beta version became available. I installed it and am delighted. They will be making a few final changes during the beta test based on user input. The final version will be […]
Apple Music and Sonos Coming Together
I was an early adopter of Sonos in 2009 and continue to enjoy the great sounds it delivers throughout the house. When Apple Music was announced, I signed up for the streaming music service. I did not like it at first but have gotten used to it as the service learned what music I like. Now […]
Solar
Alternative energy — sources that have no undesired consequences unlike fossil fuels or nuclear energy — are renewable and are often thought of as “free”. There are billions of dollars being spent on alternative energy but there clearly are benefits compared to conventional energy sources. The alternative sources include biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric the tides and […]
Home Automation (update)
Thanks for all the feedback on the BusinessWeek magazine and video pieces. Seems to be a lot of interest in home automation. I will continue working on the series of stories that I promised. I just realized that BW has archived the video version of the story. It is still available and I have updated […]
