Web Services as Governments
This spring Apple, Facebook, and Twitter, made controversial announcements. Apple announced the terms of service for the iPhone OS 4, that restricted how applications developers could use analytics d...
In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So Yesterday
ON a Tuesday evening this spring, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, became part man and part machine. About 40 people, all gathered here at a NASA campus for a nine-day, $15,000 course at Singul...
Facebook: Calacanis Is Lying
Well, this is getting more interesting. This morning, we reported that Jason Calacanis' Facebook account was still active, despite his very public deletion of the account about 20 days ago. When he ...
Andreessen Horowitz To Win The Foursquare Investor Badge
A months long fundraising process for Foursquare is in its last stages, we've heard from multiple sources, and Andreessen Horowitz looks to be preparing to check-in to Foursquare to take an investor b...
“for the lolz”: 4chan is hacking the attention economy
(Newbie note: If you have never heard of 4chan, start with the Wikipedia entry and not the website itself. The site tends to offend many adults' sensibilities. As one of my friends put it, loving LO...
Steven Pinker and the Internet
As someone who has enjoyed and learned a lot from Steven Pinker's books about language and cognition, I was disappointed to see the Harvard psychologist write, in Friday's New York Times, a cursory op...
Scribd: Publishers Are Wasting Time, Money, Effort In Creating iPad Apps
Although magazines like Wired are reporting strong results for their early iPad efforts, for most publishers, this is still an experiment to see if they can recreate—or at least approximate—the revenu...
iPhones for BlackBerries at UBS
Up to one third of the the bank's 18,000 BlackBerries could migrate to Apple's smartphone — In an unusual note to clients, UBS (UBS) analyst Maynard Um reported Thursday on the results of a panel di...
Mind Over Mass Media
NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers' brainpower and moral fiber. — So ...
Pentagon Fears Wikileaks Founder Will Spill Secrets
Officials Hunting Wikileaks Founder in Attempt to Protect Classified Documents — Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive websit...
Apple Hits 10,000 iPad Apps — Store Doubled In The Past Six Weeks
Store Doubled In The Past Six Weeks — During his keynote address at WWDC on Monday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs rattled off some key statistics. Among them was that there are 8,500 native iPad apps. Actua...
Computing with Secrets, but Keeping them Safe
A cryptographic method could see cloud services work with sensitive data without ever decrypting it. — A novel technique could see future Web services work with sensitive data without ever being abl...
Blooming
Europe has become a more fertile place for technology companies. But its tech industries still have to show they can burst through old constraints — MENTION the name of a big European technology fi...