No downturn in the desert — more solar projects hope to hit the sand
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently reported a 78 percent spike in the number of land-use applications received from solar projects interested in setting up shop in the millions of desert acres west of the Rocky Mountains. Last year, it saw 125, this year 223 — which, all told, would take up about 2.3 million of those acres, according to Greentech Media. This is a drop in the bucket relative to the 258… Continue Reading
Roundup: Mashups at Web 2.0, Linden Lab gets new executive and more
Here’s the latest action:
Mashup companies take over Web 2.0 — InfoWorld profiles three companies making announcements at this week’s conference: Serena, which is launching an online marketplace for business mashups; JackBe, which has a new version of its enterprise mashup platform; and Kapow, which provides a hosted service to build mashups that provide web intelligence. We’ll also be writing more about Rearden Commerce and Zude in the next few days. And we just covered SnapLogic,… Continue Reading