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What Are The Benefits To Communities From Living Next To Insular Tech...
Facebook campus One Hacker Way.Jessica Guynn, at the LA Times covers some familiar ground in her report: San Francisco split by Silicon Valley's wealth - latimes.comThis part was interesting:
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Friends In Low Places: Cory Booker's Old Boy Silicon Valley Network Funds His...
Newark mayor Cory Booker is running for Senate. credit: Karsten Moran - New York Times.Emma Green at The Atlantic tries to answer this question: What does Silicon Valley get from backing Newark, New...
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The News Is Not Free… 33 Journalists Killed This Year
In the tech industry there is little understanding of news and how it becomes news: software engineers see a mass of free news for the taking and for building highly-valued news aggregation businesses...
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New Gmail Filters Out The Competition: Other Marketers
Promotional email has long been an effective way of delivering opt-in commercial messages and many marketers have rediscovered this method after experimenting with advertising, social media campaigns,...
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FridayWatch: Codefellas On North Korea's Dubstep Virus
Wired's animation series Codefellas is a lot of fun with sharp writing. Here's the latest episode:
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TWIBFY Launches Its Curated 'Inspirational' Platform
Thursday evening Amsterdam based Twibfy launched what it calls an "inspirational" platform that allows its users to easily collect and share collections of their own images, and images they find online.
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MediaWatch: Justin Smith - Bloomberg's New Media Warrior CEO?
Brian Morrissey at Digiday, profiles Justin Smith, the new CEO at Bloomberg Media Group. He says that his track record at the Economist, The Week, and at The Atlantic, will likely result in an embrace...
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Some Startup School Y Combinator Apps Focus On Real World Problems
Nick Statt at CNET, reports that among the latest batch of startups from Y Combinator there were a small number focused on minorities and the elderly. Among the 49 startups at the recent Demo Day,...
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Zuckerberg's 'Greatest Challenge Of Our Generation' Requires A/B Testing
Mark Zuckerberg's call for an industry-wide effort to bring Internet connectivity to billions of the world's poorest is framed in the context of a great humanitarian crusade, he calls it "one of the...
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Living On The Fault Line Of Innovation - West Coast Has 4 Startup Centers
Here's an interesting infographic from Intuit showing the world's top 20 startup centers. The West coast of North America has four: 1 - Silicon Valley; 3 - Los Angeles; 4 - Seattle; and 9 - Vancouver....
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Qualcomm CEO Worried About End Of Moore's Law
Paul Jacobs heads San Diego based Qualcomm — the world's largest fabless chip maker. By Intel Free PressPaul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm, was recently at the Computer History museum speaking about his...
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Giving Microsoft Free Advice: The Best So Far…And My 2 Cents
There has been rush from people (journalists and bloggers) who have never run a lemonade stand or any business, to give copious free advice to Microsoft [$MSFT] in the wake of CEO Steve Ballmer's...
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Y Combinator's Paul Graham Would Never Do A Startup Again
Here is a fascinating interview with Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, in Inc. magazine, by Issie Lapowsky. (Hat tip Matt Rosoff.)When did it become the dream of young people to run off to...
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Analysis: AllThingsD At Crossroads - Founding Team Wants Buyout From Dow Jones
JP Mangalindan and Dan Primack at Fortune have produced an excellent article on tech gadget and news site AllThingsD and the discussions between owner Dow Jones and the founding team of Walt Mossberg...
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The Fiscal Limits Of Moore's Law: 2020 - The End Of Exponential Innovation
It won't be physics that sets the limits of Moore's Law but fiscal issues — as the chip industry's platform of exponential innovation grinds to a halt after a 50 year run in the face of mounting costs...
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Remembering Russia's Extraordinary Visionary: Ilya Segalovich
"Delicate, subtle, kind, intelligent, gracious, inspired, luminous. He was afraid of nothing, was at the forefront, waited for us there."“Sometimes it felt like talking to someone who lives five years...
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Building A Movement To Fix Work
Chris Heuer (above) has been asking this question in his salon: Is work broken? It's a good question and very current. The environment of work seems horrid in many organizations and the management...
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Dave McClure's Guide To Disruption In VC Land
Dave McClure, (above) the successful founder/investor of 500 Startups, posted a great response to a post by Sarah Lacy in which she defends the need for traditional VC firms of Sand Hill Road against...
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No U-Turn: Microsoft - Nokia Deal Imposes Ballmer Strategy On Next CEO
Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's business groups leaves little room for the next CEO to choose a different strategy from the current "devices and services" focus of outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer.
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How To Disable Facebook's Creepy Face Recognition Software
Here's some good advice in the form of an infographic from Checkpoint's Zone Alarm about the new Facebook security changes. Your face has become very important to Facebook with a new facial recognition...
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