Tom Foremski
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A Visit To SRI: Top Secret R&D In The Heart Of Silicon Valley
Tucked away in a quiet, tree lined residential neighborhood of Menlo Park, SRI International runs a massive 1 million square foot research lab in the heart of Silicon Valley, where many of its 2100 staff toil on secret projects for the US Dept. of Defense (DoD). SRI’s work might be top secret but it’s not ...
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: (click) [Cross-posted at Silicon Valley Watcher]
The Bubble In Pretty Design: Flipboard Versus McClatchy Newspapers
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 pretty user interface. Flipboard’s valuation has soared in just nine months since its launch and it now ranks with The McClatchy Company [$MNI] newspaper group, ...
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 to know the top influencers in a specific niche market, these services will provide you with a simple number ...
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. Nearly half of respondents (47 percent) said they used Twitter to source new story angles. Over a third said they used Facebook (35 percent). Blogs were also ...
Are Ex-Journalists to Blame or Facebook’s Smear Campaign?
The scandal over Facebook’s PR campaign to smear Google over possible privacy violations carries an interesting wrinkle: at least two prominent ex-journalists were involved. Miguel Helft and Claire Cain Miller reported in the New York Times that the campaign conducted by PR firm Burson-Marsteller included: two high-profile former journalists, Jim Goldman of CNBC and John ...
The Incredible Drudge Report
The latest study from the Pew Center’s Project For Excellence in Journalism looked at sites that drive traffic to 25 large news sites. The report has an interesting section on the Drudge Report and how it drives massive amounts of traffic to the news sites in the study, way more than might be expected due ...
Mike Arrington Responds To His Critics
Mike Arrington, Editor of Techcrunch, responded to his critics yesterday. In his post he said he would continue to make investments and that everyone in Silicon Valley is conflicted in one way or another. I still believe that editors and reporters should not be investors in companies that they cover. I’d like to invite Mike ...
Report: Massive Drop In Freelance Writing Work Following Google’s Panda Update
Chris O’Brien at Freelancer.com sent me an interesting report that shows a massive drop in freelance writing jobs following Google’s Panda algorithm update in February, which was designed to demote content farms in search rankings. We’ve just completed our quarterly report, the Freelancer Fast 50. Using data from the over 100,000 freelance projects completed on ...
Intel’s Tiny Transistor With “Fins” Is A Potential ARM Killer, Tablet Winner
Intel’s most important technology announcement of the year, was yesterday, when it said it had figured out a way to build chips with a radical new design, a “3-D” transistor, which has a “fin” structure to greatly lower power consumption while increasing performance. That’s exactly what it needs to better compete against ARM, the British ...