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Fantastic Insight Into The Closed Box Google Culture From A Recent Xoogler
Douwe Osinga, a software engineer, recently left Google after seven years. He's written a series of blog posts explaining why he left and also describing what it was like working there, and he dispels...
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Curation Is Not Cheap Content...
There seems to be quite a few people in marketing that look upon "curation" as an inexpensive and quick way to get content onto a site.After all, how hard can it be to collect a few links and publish...
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Secondary Market Investors Will Score Big Win From LinkedIn IPO
Private investors in LinkedIn, the social network for business professionals, stand to make a hefty profit following the company's IPO this week.The underwriters for LinkedIn increased the initial...
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Guest Post: Fighting E-Book Pirates - An Author's Tale
By Mitzi SzeretoContrary to popular opinion, writers aren't writers because they have nothing better to do and are merely killing time until they end up at the cemetery. The majority of us who toil...
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Netflix Is Fighting Silicon Valley's Battle Against Bandwidth Caps
Broadband availability and speeds are notoriously bad in the US and now with the imposition of monthly caps on usage there is little incentive for cable and Telco companies to improve the situation.
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A Wacky Wave: USB-Powered Aquariums, Disco Balls, Slippers And More...
By Intel Free PressKeyboards, printers, joysticks - sure. But toy missile launchers, disco balls and thumb drives that look like thumbs? When a small team of Intel engineers developed the Universal...
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SF Police With Body Video Cameras - How Long Before Public Has The Same?
A while ago I wrote that in the near future, we will have body video cameras that will act as security against attack or other threats:The Fly On The Wall And Its Social Effects - A Short Story From...
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Oriella Survey: Most Journalists Shun Social Media And Blogs
A survey of nearly 500 journalists across 15 countries has found that some journalists use social media and blogs to source and verify stories. But the majority don't.
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LinkedIn Debut Doubles - But Are Tech IPOs back?
LinkedIn [$LNKD] doubled in its opening of public trading from its offer price of $45 giving hope to many other tech IPOs waiting in the wings.
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ADP - The Original Cloud Company - Is "Bored With The Cloud"
"I'm so bored with the cloud," laughs Mike Capone, CIO of Automatic Data Processing (ADP), the payroll processing giant and the original "cloud computing" company, also known as SAAS (Software As A...
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It's Graduation Time And Women MBAs Are A Bargain
Margo Medez-Penate sent me some very interesting statistics from Catalyst, the non-profit organization focused on advancing women in the workplace:"According to our research, women MBA graduates earn,...
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SaturdayPost: Curation and Verification In Journalism - New Methods In News...
Earlier this week I wrote about the Oriella survey of journalists that found that most do not use social media or blogs for verifying and sourcing stories.[Oriella Survey: Most Journalists Shun Social...
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Klout, PeerIndex, Empire Avenue, Et Al... Shortcuts Without Insights
Lots of people I know in PR and marketing are enamored by new services such as Klout, PeerIndex, and Empire Avenue, which seek to provide a quick assessment on any person's online influence.If you want...
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Is There A Business Model For "Innovation Journalism?"
I'm spending much of this week at the 8th Conference on Innovation Journalism at Stanford University, speaking on panels, keynoting on ethics, and listening and discussing "innovation journalism" with...
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Guest Post: Capturing Collaboration In The Real World
Guest post - Luidia offers eBeam, which transforms any surface into an interactive whiteboard.By Rafi Holtzman, CEO of LuidiaCollaboration is quite the buzzword these days and is undeniably an integral...
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Analysis: The Bubble In Pretty Design: Flipboard Versus McClatchy Newspapers
(Flipboard team at work.)Silicon Valley investors love a pretty face especially if it comes with free content. That's what's working for Flipboard, a hot startup with an iPad magazine app with a very...
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GigaOm Raises $6m For PayWall - Total: $15 million
GigaOm, founded by Om Malik, a former business reporter, said it had raised an additional $6m.The money comes from Reed Elsevier Ventures and current investors Alloy Ventures and True Ventures (Om...
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Infographic: How Much Are The Top Private Company Founders Worth?
Here's a great infographic showing the estimated worth of some of the founders of hot private companies, via RetailMeNot:
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Guest Post: Three Reasons Why Curation Is Not A Fad
Oliver Starr is the Chief Evangelist for Pearltrees. Prior to this he was the first employee at TechCrunch. He has also held numerous executive positions in technology companies and has founded and...
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Intel VP Sean Maloney Talks About Stroke, ARM, China...
[Sean Maloney Exec. Vice President was recently named head of Intel's China operations. He returned to work in January after suffering a stroke last year. The following transcript is taken from a...
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