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It's Google's Web: Latest Gmail Changes Confound Marketers
Earlier this year Google began filtering email newsletters into a separate folder in user’s inboxes. The move was explained as a way to help users organize their mail but in reality it was aimed at...
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'Shame On Feinstein' Coalition Warns Of Silicon Valley Economic Impact From...
Some of the organizers of the "Shame on Feinstein" coalition.On the day celebrating the Bill of Rights, a coalition of San Francisco and Bay Area activists groups and lawyers, issued an open letter to...
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Blogging's Massive Failure To Topple Mass Media
Om Malik, publisher of GigaOm, recently posted some thoughts about his 12 years of blogging and he came to the conclusion that blogs today are where he can aggregate all his fractured expressions...
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Interview: Hank Skorny Leads Intel Services Push - 'Don’t Skate Too Far Ahead...
Intel is building up its services operation with Hank Skorny, GM (above).By Intel Free PressHank Skorny, a 25-year veteran of the software and mobile services industry, knows well the challenge of...
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2013: A Year Of Disappointments In Tech And Media
Over at Quartz, Christopher Mims reports that 2013 was a lost year for tech:2013 was an embarrassment for the entire tech industry and the engine that powers it—Silicon Valley. Innovation was replaced...
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It's Here: AllThingsD Team Is Now 'Re/code'
The Kara Swisher led AllThingsD team have done an excellent job in transitioning to their new site without letting up on their hard driven news focus during the transition. I wish them all the best of...
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30 Year Anniversary Of Macintosh Event - Jan 25
This charity event promises to be fabulous and historic, at the Flint Center January 25 starting at 6pm:In honor of the original Macintosh Development Team, All Planet Studios, the Computer History...
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2014: How Can Tech Help Create A Meaningful Life?
Pixels and speeds are meaningless tech specs. How to live a meaningful life is the best metric that our use of technology can provide. Our challenge is how do we harness tech to achieve it?2014 is...
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The News Is Not Free: First Reporter Killed In 2014
Above, a family holds a photo of one of 70 journalists killed in 2013. Source CPJThe Press Gazette reported:Pakistan journalist Shan Odhor has become the first media worker to die in 2014 because of...
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CES: How Did Tech Journalism Turn Into Product Reporting?
This week all the tech sites and newspaper tech sections will be full of stories about mass produced consumer electronics products being exhibited at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.Some...
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Thank You Holmes Report For Naming Tom Foremski A Top 25 Innovator
I hate blowing my own horn but I’d like to thank The Holmes Report for recognizing my work and naming me one of the top 25 innovators of 2013. Aarti Shah wrote:For having the foresight to see that...
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Segregation Of Tech Workers Leads To Mistrust And Conflict
Above, a newspaper on a San Francisco street.Google has responded to protests about its large fleet of buses clogging city streets with plans to use a high speed ferry service for its employees in San...
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Native Ads Are The Worst Idea In The World - NYTimes Is Clueless
Native advertising is the world’s worst idea and I can’t believe the New York Times management is so gullible and clueless in agreeing to its publication. Gullible — because they were talked into...
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InPowered: Trusted Content Is 4 Times More Effective Than Native Ads
Co-founders of InPowered and NetShelter: Peyman Nilforoush and Pirouz Nilforoush.Yesterday I argued that the New York Times had committed a grave error in judgement by allowing the publication of...
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Techcrunch Suffers Serious Loss: Eric Eldon
Above, Eric Eldon in Dublin, 2012.I’m a big fan of Eric Eldon because when Techcrunch was suffering credibility issues from the antics of co-founder Mike Arrington, his appointment as Editor calmed...
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Christmas Day On Twitter's Street - The Not-So-Sunny Side Of SF's Tech Boom
Outside the golden doors of Twitter’s mid-Market Street HQ is a far different world from the thousands of coddled tech workers that live inside, with free food, free laundry, free apartment cleaning,...
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Richard Edelman's 'Show Up Differently' - A Rally Cry In PR's War With...
Richard Edelman (right) with Steve Barrett, Editor-in-Chief of PR Week, at a Churchill Club event in 2013.The advertising industry is going through big changes and that means opportunities for PR firms...
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GoodData's Roman Stanek - What's Beyond 'Big Data'?
It was good to catch up with Roman Stanek, CEO and founder of data analysis startup GoodData. There’s some interesting news coming up soon that I can’t talk about just yet.We talked about Big Data and...
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Why Did An Angry Man Punch Me?
Above, angry man about to hit meI was punched by an angry man while I was walking home Wednesday evening around 11pm in San Francisco. He was on the other side of the street raving and hollering, and I...
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