INXPO: A Live Video Platform For 'Social Business'
(My readers are familiar with my "every company is a media company" mantra but how do companies become media companies? They need media services and technologies to help them and this will become a...
View ArticleThe Exploratorium Celebrates It's Re-Opening April 17!
I love The Exploratorium and have been bringing my kids to it for nearly two decades. I'm sad that it moved out of its beautiful Palace of Fine Arts location, but I'm excited to visit the new $300m...
View ArticleDavid Galbraith On "Four Trends..."
It's always worth paying attention to my good friend David Galbraith even to things he says that are a year or two old. (Unfortunately, he's stuck in Switzerland when he should be here...)Dave was...
View ArticleThe HTML5 Promise: Responsive Web Design For Any Screen
This article is timely because I just finished building a responsive version of SVW in Zurb's Foundation 4 "mobile-first" framework. Responsive HTML is the future compared to apps because of the huge...
View ArticleA Tour: New Exploratorium Just Like The Old Exploratorium
A special exhibit for the opening.The new $300m revamp of the Exploratorium opens today and I'm glad to report that it looks and feels lot like the old Exploratorium at the Palace of Fine Arts but much...
View ArticleIntel Moves Into Media Technologies With Mashery Acquisition
Oren Michels, CEO of Mashery.Intel is beefing up its software offerings with a reported acquisition of Mashery, based in San Francisco.
View ArticleJaron Lanier: Free Information Wants To Be Paid...
Jaron Lanier, an early Internet pioneer, talks with FT Business about the new digital economies, and why free information is not a good idea.
View ArticleGoogle Glass - Innovating A Social Failure
I'm not a fan of Google Glass because I am absolutely certain it won't be socially acceptable to be video or audio recording people around you without their permission, or to be online constantly...
View ArticleStudy: Chinese Hi-Tech Workers Continue to Be Abused Despite Audits
Economists Guojun He and Jeffrey Perloff at the University of California, Berkeley, published a study that details widespread illegal working conditions among Chinese companies despite the scrutiny of...
View ArticleAP - Apparently a Parody
Good news -- the White House was not really attacked. Bad news -- Reddit has found some suspects anyway. -- Eddy Elfenbein (@EddyElfenbein) April 23, 2013 Hilarious Tweet, serious subject. I love how...
View ArticleThe Dark Side Of HTML5 - DRM Open Web Betrayal
The Free Culture Foundation is warning that Google, Microsoft, Netflix, and giant Hollywood music and movie companies, are pushing for an extension to the HTML5 standard that will give them control...
View ArticleThe Secret To Amazon's Competitive Advantage Over Apple, Others
Amazon today reported a $82 million net profit on $16.1 billion in sales for its fiscal first quarter and warned that it might lose more than one-third of a billion dollars ($340m) in its current...
View ArticleIntel's Diverse King Makers - An Exemplary Board Of Directors
Intel still has not named a successor to Paul Otellini, CEO, despite nearly six months of deliberations and time is running out, the deadline is May 16.I've suggested that it choose two CEOs because of...
View ArticleGoogle Glass Is Great For The Old And Demented
Google Glass has an excellent future in a number of specialized applications but I don't see it being used much in day-to-day situations, primarily because of its creepy surveillance aspects.But...
View ArticleWeekendWatcher: De Young's Friday Nights Season Is A Huge Dud
I'm a big fan of the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and I love everything about it. It's been on a roll with great exhibitions and its free "Friday Nights at the de Young" has always been a great...
View ArticleCultureWatcher: Great Weather For SF's 'How Weird' Festival
San Francisco's How Weird street fair is always fun and difficult to categorize. Here's how it describes itself: http://howweird.org/The How Weird Street Faire is a world-class music festival,...
View ArticleHow Many Fake Journalists Does Reuters Employ?
Jim Romenesko knows of two fake journalists at a Thomson Reuters publication, how many more are there elsewhere?
View ArticleA New Meaning To "Glassy Eyed Stare?"
With no handheld screen to look down into, Google Glass wearers will be walking around like blind men, staring off into a void of their own. "Glassy-eyed stare" will have a more literal meaning in the...
View ArticleDo You Think Opinion Startup State Is Similar To Swipp?
Josh Constine wrote about startup State this morning:Jawbone’s founding CEO Alexander Asseily thinks everyone deserves a powerful voice online, so today he’s launching State, a structured...
View ArticleValleyWag Wrong On Arrington
Sam Biddle at ValleyWag from Gawker Media, confidently predicted that for the first time in five years, Mike Arrington, the co-founder of Techcrunch Disrupt conference, would not make an appearance at...
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