Monsters of Photorealism
My hat is off to whoever designed the new King Kong game for the Xbox 360, because they've crafted a genuinely horrific monster. When it first lurched out of the mysterious tropical cave and fixed it...
Why we invested $5 million in Attensa: RSS Investors Fund
News is out on the RSSI investment in Attensa, announced today. — KBCafe, — Red Herring — When John Palfrey, Richard Fishman and I founded the RSS Investors Fund, our aim was not simply to make ...
NASA ditches IE in favor of Firefox
A little birdie told me today that NASA has given up entirely on Internet Explorer. Now, if you are an employee of NASA, every time you go to a page using IE, you get up to three prompts telling you ...
Talking-Head Video Is Boring Online
In 1997, I wrote an analysis …
Google: Ten Golden Rules
Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. Here's how we do it at google. — By By Eric Schmidt and Hal Varian — Issues 2006 - At g...
Digg.com Plans Expansion
DIGG.COM, A COLLABORATIVELY EDITED TECHNOLOGY news site that some on the Web are touting as the next Slashdot, intends to branch out from tech stories and move into other news categories as well as me...
Opening remarks: welcome to Les Blogs 2.0 !
On behalf of Six Apart, the entire team who organized les blogs that I will introduce you in a few minutes and all our partners, welcome to Les Blogs 2.0, welcome to Paris. — I can't believe you hav...
At Google, Cube Culture Has New Rules
Google, like I.B.M., says that it is forging a corporate culture in which success depends on performance. — But while I.B.M. is an old company that has revamped the social contract with its workers,...
Have you updated your buzzwords?
You may think you're appropriately buzzword-compliant, but this is internet time, baby, and last month's 2.0 buzzwords are outdated (but not in that retro-cool way). If you're doing a VC pitch and bu...
Thinking Outside the Box Office
When Steven Soderbergh releases his next film on January 27, it will have not only the critics squawking, but Hollywood studio execs, too. Bubble, an all-digital thriller, is set in an Ohio doll fact...
Saga of Circuit City False Advertising and Customer Abuse
A few weeks ago we were really impressed with the great service we got at Circuit City when purchasing a new car stereo and a new DVD player/recorder/VCR combo. So when we decided to replace our 4-ye...
Madison Avenue faces Google fears
Google's search for revenue beyond its wildly popular pay-per-click advertising system has everyone from publishers to phone companies unnerved by the seemingly endless scope of the Web leader's ambit...
Churchill's words guide 180Solutions
Editor's note: This is the first monthly column written by Seattle marketing and public relations firm founder Cheryl Isen. It's based on monthly presentations by local entrepreneurs at Northwest Ent...
FASHION BLOGGER!
tonight i met with marc canter for dinner. it was supposed to be a simple, small, dinner, and instead it exploded into a full 20 person + dinner! robert scobble showed up with his wife, hugh was the...
Froogle: Shopping Made Complex
It's not hard to see why the test version of Google's shopping service has yet to gain widespread acceptance — but it does show promise — THE GOOD Fast searches, nice integration of local searches w...
New Soft Helmet Turns Hard in Crash
Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire have discovered a complex elastomeric compound they call d3o that is both soft and hard. — A shear thickening material, it is flexible when moved slowl...