Tag Archives: Tech
Facebook is reinventing the Web
The announcements earlier today at the f8 conference and some of the recent features already launched really shed light on how Facebook is moving beyond what Google has accomplished and reinventing the Web. This article on GigaOm puts what Facebook … Continue reading
Social media goes dark on Palo Alto plane crash
Its comforting to see that there is still some common decency left despite the seemingly total transparency that social media facilitates. Yesterday the pilot and passengers of a small aircraft were killed when their plane hit some power lines and … Continue reading
Hack my accounts please…
The rather embarrassing recent hack of RockYou’s servers a few months ago provided researchers with 32 million passwords to carry out some interesting research on. You would have thought that with the all the media coverage of security leaks, privacy … Continue reading
Tech start-ups in Melbourne?
G’day. In early November I am heading to Melbourne, Australia for week to work with a start-up there I am advising. If anyone knows of other interesting start-ups I should check out while down-under please let me know in the … Continue reading
Technology to make bad parents even worse.
I’m not at the TechCrunch50 conference going on this week here in San Francisco but have kept abreast of the companies pitching their business via the TC site and others. Two companies launched yesterday that made me wince; Story Something … Continue reading
My Persona…according to MIT
This is very cool. Go here and put your name in the box. The Personas project from the MIT Media Lab and built by Aaron Zinman uses your name to search the web for some context or ‘corpus’ to build a visual … Continue reading
Will the Palm Pre usurp the iPhone – Elevation thinks so.
When you’ve put nearly $500m into a Company you really want and need it to succeed, which I guess is why Roger McNamee over at Elevation Partners is talking smack and arguing that iPhone owners will abandon Apple in droves … Continue reading
Moving on and up!
Following a couple of months as an Adviser I’m really excited to announce that I have accepted the role of VP Business Operations at Zuberance. Zuberance was founded by Rob Fuggetta who has a long and illustrious career in marketing … Continue reading
Hubdub predictions spot-on for election!
Now all the US states bar North Carolina have been called, the electoral votes vote tally is 349 to Obama and 173 to McCain. Obama is currently expected to take North Carolina which would take his final tally to 364 … Continue reading
