Monday, September 28, 2009
Barack Obama Loves Startups: New Federal Office for Early-Stage Entrepreneurs
According to a Bloomberg report this morning, early-stage startups have a new friend in very high places.
Monday, August 24, 2009
How Tim O’Reilly Aims to Change Government
Some people go to Washington to try to make the government more honest; others try to make it smaller.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Dear IPhone Users: Your Apps Are Spying on You
Recently, Palm came under fire when programmer Joey Hess discovered the Pre’s smartphone OS was sending users’ GPS locations back to Palm on a daily basis.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
The Top 100 Search Terms Queried by Kids
Security firm Symantec has identified the top 100 searches conducted by children online.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
IBM and the Internet of Things
In the Web world, you know that a trend has major traction when IBM is all over it. Like any large Internet company, Big Blue is careful about which trends it latches onto. It was a good couple of years before they were spotted at the Web 2.0 conference, for example. However in the case of Internet of Things, IBM is proving itself to be an unusually early adopter.
Monday, June 8, 2009
The Sociology of Twitter, Video Interview with Liz Pullen
Sociologist and ethnographer Liz Pullen spent a month tracking the top 500 Twitter users (as ranked by number of followers) as well as the much-contested suggested users list.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Why Don’t You Love Flock?
A few days ago, the social web browser Flock released version 2.5 of their software, integrating Facebook Chat, improving Twitter functionality, and adding a new broadcasting feature called “Flockcast.”
Friday, May 8, 2009
3 Reasons Why Twitter Will NOT Index the Links You Share (Updated)
Techmeme is on fire this morning with discussion of Rafe Needleman’s CNet post about Twitter’s supposed plans to index the content of links shared over the microblogging service.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Why Obama’s Flickr Photos Aren’t in the Public Domain
The White House is making unprecedented use of consumer web technologies but those technologies aren’t always well suited to fit the government’s needs.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Scientists Break Brain/Twitter Barrier
University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering doctoral student Adam Wilson has successfully tested a “brain wave monitor” to the Twitter publishing interface, allowing him to compose a message merely by thinking and publish it to the arguably too-popular microblogging service.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Web 2.0 Expo: An “American Idol” for Start-Ups
During the “Launch Pad” session, five start-ups took a grilling from developers, journalists and venture capitalists, then faced a crowd vote at the Web 2.0 Expo’s version of “American Idol.”
As attendees texted their votes, moderator John Battelle, founder of Federated Media Publishing, jokingly asked: “Want to have a dance-off?”
None were necessary. The techies in attendance were starry-eyed for all things mobile, picking Nitobi’s PhoneGap, an open-source tool for building mobile apps, as the People’s Choice winner. Life-tracking site zeaLOG was a close second.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Can Digg Keep Up With Facebook?
Looking at a regular graph of traffic data from Digg and Facebook, it would be easy to assume that Digg is lagging far behind Facebook’s staggering growth. However, Compete just produced a very different graph that compares traffic at Digg and Facebook since their respective launches, and according to this data, Digg is actually doing better than Facebook.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Despite Recession, More Than 50 Percent of Marketers Increase Spending on Social Media
In a recession, budgets are tightened, jobs are cut, and those who remain are expected to do more with less. Given this type of economic reality, it’s surprising to hear of an industry reporting an increase in spending on anything, much less on something as new as social media. Yet that’s exactly what’s occurring. According to a new Forrester Research survey of 145 global interactive marketers in both B2B and B2C companies with more than 250 employees, the use of social media as a marketing tool is on the rise.
Friday, March 6, 2009
When UI Rules, What Drives Consolidation?
In business, “online collaboration” suggests complex jobs getting done more efficiently by teams of people wherever they are located. The productivity gains–which are substantial, albeit often hard to measure–have drawn lots of companies into the market. As the market matures, we will see consolidation. And we’re interested in seeing what form this consolidation will take.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Don’t Click! No Really! Don’t Even Think About it!
Twitter is falling prey to a major security flaw right now. The service is getting swamped with messages that say: “Don’t Click” and a URL. Apparently, this hack has been around for over two weeks, but it only really took off today.
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