There is a growing sentiment among Stanford's CS students to resist working at tech companies like Palantir that they feel are unethical
April Glaser / Slate : Tweets: @mikeisaac , @ross , @dhh , @ethanz , and @aprilaser Tweets: Rat King / @mikeisaac : this @aprilaser piece is real good techcos start to give many shits once the kids t...
Spotify Technology S.A. F-1 SEC filing for public listing on NYSE
despite still not turning a profit Kerry Flynn / Mashable : Spotify files for an IPO on the NYSE Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac : Spotify IPO now official, claims twice as many paid subscribers as Apple Mus...
Etsy is under pressure from activist investors to grow revenue, reduce spending and perks, and give up its ethical ideals
“There is one and only one social responsibility of business,” the economist Milton Friedman famously wrote in 1962. And that is “to use its resources and engage … Tweets: @chafkin , @ross , @schingl...
Socialtext enterprise wiki getting social network features
If you love a good theory — of psychology, physics, economics, you name it — go work at SocialText. These guys live in their heads. That became apparent when I talked to founder Ross Mayfield and ne...
Socialtext gets new CEO and $9.5 million in funding
Socialtext co-founder Ross Mayfield has stepped down as CEO of the enterprise wiki company and is handing the reins to Eugene Lee, a well-seasoned tech executive who has spend time at Adobe, Cisco, Ba...
The future of Twitter?
I was introduced to Twitter last summer at a dinner at Henrietta's Table in Cambridge by Ross Mayfield. I posted two or three notes using my Blackberry that evening and never did it again. I still r...
Enterprise 2.0 = Emergence Software
There is something very interesting happening in the field of enterprise technology. I called part of it Web Office. Ismael Ghalimi called it Office 2.0. Ross Mayfield calls it Social Software in t...
CEO's & Blogging—2nd Try
2nd Try — A whole lot of people have taken me to task for my recent post about CEOs and blogging, including Andy Beal, Ross Mayfield and Jim Estill, the latter two being blogging CEOs whose work I ad...
Web 2.0 in the Enterprise - Blogging the TIE Event
The Web 2.0 in the Enterprise panel discussion hosted by TIE was exciting. In fact it wasn't really a panel discussion, rather a most interactive group event. Jeff Clavier as moderator with Charlene...
Ross doesn't trust Microsoft's approach to Web
SocialText's founder, Ross Mayfield, nails why a bunch of my friends don't trust Microsoft and are finding what Microsoft's Web offerings quite boring (or, even worse, worthy of derision). — As I've...