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The West Coast Corridor: Disruptive Creation On The Fault Line
California has by far the largest number of tech workers. According to TechAmerica Foundation’s Cyberstates 2010 report, it has 993,000 tech workers, and its largest center is Silicon Valley. But it’s not just Silicon Valley that impresses me. If you fly north along the West Coast starting at San Diego, take a look at what ...
HerWay: Online Dating Where Women Rule
This strikes me as a very good idea, an online dating site where the women are in control: HerWay.com. According to HerWay, it is at least five times more likely that online daters will successfully connect when a woman initiates contact. By letting women make the initial connection with their potential suitors, HerWay creates an ...
This is Big: IE9 Demos Graphics Acceleration … for the Web.
Microsoft previewed Internet Explorer 9 this morning, which has strong support for HTML5 and makes use of hardware acceleration to dramatically improve the performance of video and animation. Microsoft executives said that web browsers normally only use about 10% of the power of a computer. “We want to make the other 90% available to web ...
Palo Alto is Migrating to San Francisco
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that tech firms have become a chief driver for office space in San Francisco. Tech firms making S.F. new home Many of the tenants are swelling homegrown businesses like Twitter, while others are relocating from Silicon Valley or outside the Bay Area. As of June 15, 83 technology companies were ...
Iceland Lacks the Bandwidth to be a New Media Haven
Iceland’s parliament has unanimously agreed to pass the strongest media freedom laws called the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative. Nieman Journalism Lab reports: But although the legislative package sounds very encouraging from a freedom of expression point of view, it’s not clear what the practical benefits will be to organizations outside Iceland. In hisanalysis of the ...
A (Steve) Case of the Pot Calling the Kettle Black [Bebo Sale]
I couldn’t believe this. Steve Case, the former head of AOL Tweeted: “AOL buying Bebo for $850 million and then selling 2 years later for $10 million doesn’t seem like a winning strategy.” Is this a (Steve) case of a pot calling the kettle black? The merger of AOL and Time Warner is one of ...
Game Mechanics in the Enterprise
Last week I caught up with the folks at CrowdCast, a provider of Q&A marketplaces for enterprises. CrowdCast secured a $6m follow financing round led by Menlo Ventures in addition to a $3m series A round this time last year. CrowdCast is interesting for me because it intersects a number of topics I have covered ...
Interview: Berthier Ribeiro-Neto Head of Engineering at Google Brazil
Mr. Ribeiro-Neto received a Ph.D degree in Computer Science from UCLA in 1995. He is the co-author of "Modern Information Retrieval." In 1999 he co-founded Akwan Information Technologies, a search engine focused on Brazil. Google acquired the company in 2005. Here are some notes from our conversation: – We built a search engine funded by ...
Broadvision: Boldly Re-Inventing Itself with Clearvale
Broadvision recently announced a collaborative business platform, Clearvale, and a partnership with Softbank, a major Japanese telecommunications company. The move is part of Broadvision’s attempts to reinvent itself and reverse a long decline in revenues. The company was once one of the high flyers of the dot com boom with its portal and web commerce ...
Fair Trade Electronics: Why We Need It and Who Will Give It To Us
Patrick Mattimore, a fellow at the Institute for Analytic Journalism, recently published the following article on China’s People’s Daily Online, headlined: Media badly misplaying Foxconn suicides. Taiwanese-owned Foxconn has had seven suicides this year. That sounds like a lot, but the firm has an estimated 800,000 workers, more than 300,000 of them at a single ...