A New VC Model?
Web 2.0 may not be a bubble yet but there are intriguing, if not troubling, signs that the inmates want to take over the prison. Dave Winer's call to remove VCs from the formula has some merit but it...
Small ideas, big companies
Turns out in the past hour I've met strategists from eBay, Yahoo, Amazon. They are here to see the small ideas. Some of them are pretty cool. — Here's my favorites of what I saw at the Entrepreneu...
When Terry Met Jerry, Yahoo!
WHEN Yahoo Inc. announced nearly five years ago that Terry S. Semel, then a former leader of the Warner Brothers motion picture studio, would become its chairman and chief executive, the reaction both...
Mash Pit Dallas
What — Mash Pit is an informal all-day hackfest for collaborating on solving human problems with open APIs, open source and web-based technology. — Where — INFOMART 1950 Stemmons Freeway, Suite ...
How to Outwit the World's Internet Censors
When Google announced last week that it would censor its new search service in China, the company became, to many, the latest component in that country's sophisticated system of information control. ...
There's a Popular New Code for Deals: RSS
FOR many people, e-mail newsletters are fast becoming the Internet equivalent of the Sunday paper: compendiums of useful information, often left unread in lieu of life's other tasks. E-mail alerts on...
Dear Google
I'm disappointed in what you did. You, of all companies, should have set the example of 'how to be independent and neutral'. I never thought you would give in to the claims of governments to hide in...
Patently Absurd
It's the kind of story even a careful newspaper reader might overlook. Tucked at the bottom of an inside page of The Wall Street Journal was a four-paragraph item beneath the innocuous headline: "Pag...
Microsoft acquiring Seadragon Software
Microsoft is acquiring Seadragon Software, a Seattle-based company developing technologies that could be used across several of the software giant's businesses, including Web search, cellphone service...
Exploding the conference business
Too many conferences suck. They're too expensive. They are filled with boring panels. They are all about speeches and not about conversation and argument and learning and meeting. They don't captu...
The Interface Is The Message: Inside The Mind of Media Designer Dale Herigstad
FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T DWELL in its world, design can sometimes be an esoteric concept. As consumers and businesspeople, we all understand when a media design works for us, or even more noticeably when...
Not Just Another Column About Blogging
What newspaper history says about newspaper future. — Six months ago, I stumbled upon a brilliant 16,241-word paper about press consolidation, and it didn't occur to me until this week, while attend...
How to reform the VC industry
There's a wisp of a discussion materializing in the tech blogosphere about reforming the VC industry. I have been thinking about this for many many years. It's an exciting time because I think it mi...
Nine Startups at E27 Summit
I attended the E27 Technology Conference today at Stanford University. Startups founded by entrepreneurs who are less than 27 years old were eligible to present. With a couple of exceptions these co...
There's a Popular New Code for Deals: RSS
FOR many people, e-mail newsletters are fast becoming the Internet equivalent of the Sunday paper: compendiums of useful information, often left unread in lieu of life's other tasks. E-mail alerts on...
When Terry Met Jerry, Yahoo!
WHEN Yahoo Inc. announced nearly five years ago that Terry S. Semel, then a former leader of the Warner Brothers motion picture studio, would become its chairman and chief executive, the reaction both...
The revolution will be reproduced
Rex Hammock points to Richard Edelman's Me2 Revolution, and says I am requiring all of my employees to read it. … Credit where due: Richard is channeling reality. He's listening to what Chris Locke c...
Silicon Valley's Wireless Plans
Silicon Valley Network, a coalition of business, education and local government officials are planning a massive wireless network that would span from East Palo Alto to Santa Cruz. The SVN is looking...
Hardcoded
35 might not seem like a very old age to some, but in many ways, it's a good time for me to really decide what projects of mine are going to "happen", which will not, and what, if any, new projects I ...
Congress invites Google
Questions arise over allowing censorship in China — Google Inc.'s recent decision to censor search results in China has raised eyebrows in Congress, which has invited the company, along with its chi...
Kill the Big, Bad Dragon (Teamwork Required)
Jeff Kaplan knows what it's like to try to please all of the people all of the time. Don't envy him. — As a lead game designer at Blizzard Entertainment for World of Warcraft, the ridiculously succ...
Q&A: The Future Of Speech
Editor's Note: As we reported earlier this week, IBM unveiled new speech recognition technology on Tuesday that can comprehend the nuances of spoken English, translate it on the fly, and even create o...
Apple's Front Row media experience coming to iBook line
Apple Computer appears ripe to extend its Front Row media experience to a new line of iBook consumer laptops this spring. — Introduced this past October, Apple's Front Row software offers users a si...