Are You A Pirate?
I read blog posts by Don Dodge and Glenn Kelman today about people jumping from Google to Facebook and it got me thinking about entrepreneurs. — Most people have an aversion to risk, my college econ...
Why I quit Google to join Facebook: Lars Rasmussen
Lars Rasmussen, the Sydney-based co-founder of Google Maps has spoken publicly for the first time about why he quit his job and joined the growing band of high profile Googlers who have switched alleg...
The Data Bubble II
In The Data Bubble, I told readers to mark the day: 31 July 2010. That's when The Wall Street Journal published The Web's Gold Mine: Your Secrets, subtitled A Journal investigation finds that one of ...
Blekko, The “Slashtag” Search Engine, Goes Live
Blekko, the long anticipated search engine founded by Rich Skrenta, has finally opened to the public. The service offers an interesting way to “slash” or create specialty search engines for any topic...
When the Assembly Line Moves Online
DO one assigned task on your computer. It shouldn't take you more than two seconds. Repeat 14,399 times. Congratulations! Your eight-hour work day is complete. — No such workplace yet exists, bu...
EBay Attempts to Clean Up the Clutter
Redesign This Week Uses Technological Overhaul to Organize Thousands of Listings — As eBay Inc. prepares for a critical holiday shopping season, the company this week plans to unveil new elements of...
On Google Growing Up, Losing Employees & Being The New “California”
Google's lost yet another high profile employee, apparently to Facebook. Another sign that Google's slipping, to some. Perhaps. For me, Google has become the new “California,” stealing that role aw...
The Sexy Details of How the iPad and MacBook Will Hook Up
During the “Back to the Mac” event two weeks ago, Steve Jobs made a particularly witty remark as he unveiled the MacBook Air, one that made the audience chuckle in laughter: … There is always a strate...
Find your polling place and follow the US Election on the go
The United States midterm election is on Tuesday, November 2, and we encourage all eligible US citizens to get out and vote. We've made it easy to find your polling place and follow election news by ...
Real Men Use Android: Special Forces Favor Google Phone
The Army is 20 years and a half-billion dollars into a star-crossed effort to build custom communications and digital-mapping gadgets for its soldiers. Special Operations Command, on the other hand, ...