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Renewables Milestone: First Solar Reaches Grid-Parity

by David Heyerman on December 20, 2008

First Solar

  • When Sempra Generation contracted First Solar to build their 12.6 mega-watt system, I’m sure they were excited about the potential sustainability and financial aspects of the project, but now they have a serious reason to be excited.
  • They’ve just announced that the system produces electricity which is under the price of conventional energy in the US.  That’s right, solar is cheaper than coal! Well, atleast in First Solar’s case.
  • Normal energy fed into the grid costs right around $.09 per kilowatt hour, while First Solar’s Nevada desert system feeds energy in at $.075 per kilowatt hour.
  • What a great development all around for renewables, the future appears a little brighter.

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Now Publish Your FriendFeed Updates Directly To Twitter

by Jason Wilk on November 2, 2008

  • Now you can publish your FriendFeed updates directly to Twitter.
  • To activate, head to your Account page and find the ‘Post my FriendFeed entries on Twitter’ checkbox under the Feed publishing section.
  • Publish all your public entries, all your public comments, or both
  • This is quite the friendly emrace for FriendFeed, who can’t quite seem to keep up with Twitter’s unprecedented growth in the last year. Comscore shows Friendfeed traffic @ about 15% of Twitters.
  • What will happen to FF over the next 6 months as Twitter rolls out new features and climbs the mainstream ladder?

FF Blog

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Google Alerts Straight To Your Feed

by Jason Wilk on November 1, 2008

google

  • A highly requested feature that the Google team finaly acted on today.
  • You can now set alerts for News, Web, Blog, Video, and Groups which go straight into your feed.
  • Google recomends using iGoogle or Google Readers as your feed of choice. : )

Google Blog, bub.blicio.us, Lifehacker and Mashable!

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Barry Diller Giving Up On BlogLines

by Jason Wilk on October 18, 2008


  • Bloglines for the past 6 months hasn’t been updating feeds from thousands of blogs, and about 1/3 of every feed is having some problem. The problems have never been remedied despite countless requests. 
  • Founder, Mark Fletcher is upset with the situation which he has no control over; he sold the company to Ask.com in 2005, a few moths before they were acquired by Barry Diller’s InterActiveCorp
  • Clearly Barry didn’t see a huge value for the service even though they have about a half a million people using the service every month. In his corner though, IAC stock has been having trouble since the company was broken up into multiple public companies in August. With the economic downturn and their fledgling web properties clearly put BlogLines at the bottom of the “To Do” list. 

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QikCom Takes On Yammer With Some Features

by Jason Wilk on October 9, 2008

  • Enterprise Twitter seems to be the hot new non-profit to create this year. (Yammer, Present.ly,  QikCom)
  • Each one asks the question “What are you working on?” to employees who can update colleagues, bosses, etc.  in 140-character bursts.
  • Enter QikCom, they are taking on this market with an added features set in hopes to lure businesses into trying them out.
  • QikCom has a ‘Tab Store’ (similar to Apple’s app store) that lets developers add in custom additions to the update service.
  • Currently there are three tabs for the launch: A To-Do list manager, a place to keep frequent numbers used across a company, and a competition tab (this provides a feed of competing company info)
  • King Benioff sparked the hype around this enterprise feature at the TechCrunch 50, and since we have seen a lot of moves made to own this space. Most notably Cisco’s move to buy the underlying Jabber technology that all these services use for IM updates.

My problem with these services is enterprise is too tough to break into, and providing a product that large enterprise software corps could bang out in a weekend with immediate distribution capabilities (Oracle, SalesForce, etc) seems very threatening.

TC

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