Tom Foremski
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The Problem With Aggregators, The Good, The Bad And The Ugly…
Frédéric Filloux over at "Monday Note" has written a good analysis looking at news aggregators: Aggregators: the good ones vs. the looters He likes Techmeme, run by Gabe Rivera, which he dubs one of the "good" aggregators. And I agree that Techmeme is one of the good ones. He doesn’t like The Huffington Post: The ...
A two-way Internet
It’s easy to forget that we are still in the very early stages of the Internet — a basket of technologies that continues to evolve and affect nearly every aspect of our business and personal lives. The first phase of the Internet emerged into the commercial space only in the mid-1990s, from military applications at ...
MediaWatch Monday: Media Wars Over Conference Coverage Hurts Startups
I was at the DEMO Fall conference last week in Santa Clara, which is co-organized by the online news publication VentureBeat and IDG. I noticed that there wasn’t much media at the conference — the press room was nearly deserted for much of the time I was there. (I also looked for media coverage that ...
Is Apple’s Porn Ban Damaging The Future of Media?
Everyone knows that Steve Jobs has banned porn and any sexual content from the iPad but is this a wise move? I just started reading Nick Bilton’s book “I live in the future & here’s how it works” and the first chapter is about his investigation of the porn industry to see if there are ...
Mining the Coverage from DEMOfall
I popped into the DEMO Fall conference in Santa Clara. DEMO is in Silicon Valley for the first time as it celebrates its 20th anniversary. More than 800 people turned up, about 300 more than last year. The turnout was good and the content was top notch. VentureBeat is co-producing the show and also all ...
IDF09: No Fish Smell in the Intel Backpacks
About six years ago I wrote my first post on SIlicon Valley Watcher, it was about the quality of backpacks at the Intel Developer Conference. Intel is notorious for being penny pinching. When times are tough cubicles get smaller, and the conference backpacks fall in quality. My tongue-in-cheek post was that you can divine how ...
Intuit’s Innovation Walk Exposed Interesting Economic Truths
Last week I attended Intuit’s "Innovation Walk" a collection of Intuit business groups and partners offering a range of services and products such as Mint’s personal finance, mobile payment services, and much more. Intuit is in a unique position. As the tax preparation service for tens of millions of individuals and small businesses, it has ...
Google Instant is a Game Changer, But What’s the Financial Impact?
The launch of "Google Instant" represents the single largest change to Google’s search services in its history. "For the first time search is interactive," said Othar Hansson, a senior Google engineer. The company said it performed extensive studies of users and how they interact with Google Instant plus extensive eye-tracking studies. They all showed a ...
Loren Feldman – The Jester In The Court Of Web 2.0
Loren Feldman is the New York City based publisher of 1938Media.com, a fascinating, irreverent and funny critic of the West Coast tech scene. Loren used to be an insider, a close friend of the princes of the Web 2.0 world: Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble, Loic LeMeur, and others. But Loren has managed to upset all ...
Women In Tech: Starting A Startup…
By Sol Tzvi, CEO of Genieo As a young CEO and Co-founder of a startup company I often find myself thinking of the path I chose and the destination I lead myself to. Thinking of all those lonely times, when I’m traveling around the world in the middle of the night – sometimes even in ...