HP has comedian Russell Brand promoting its new TouchPad tablet in a series of whacky videos. Each segment highlights a different feature of the TouchPad. It’s pretty funny, even if you can’t understand what he’s saying half the time. Our first impressions of the TouchPad were iffy at best. But until we have a...
Daily Archives: July 3, 2011
Google’s Six-Front War
Editor’s note: Guest contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semilshah. While the tech world is buzzing about the launch and implications of Google’s new social network, Google+, it’s worth noting that Google...
Lifepath: If only everyones life looked as beautiful as this. [invites]
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I came across Lifepath via a random tweet; ”this is interesting…” it said. Clicking through, as you would, I was greeted with an astonishingly beautiful timeline of the tweeter’s life from birth to death. Everything from first words to puberty and even a heart attack, had a place on this person’s timeline and bizarrely it even...
Zerto helps when real problems hit your virtual servers
Much like Apple’s elegant Time Machine software helps make backing up your MacBook effortless, Zerto wants to make disaster recovery in the cloud just as simple. The Structure 2011 LaunchPad company, which was created in November 2009 but actually launched at Structure, wants to become the disaster recovery service for companies that rely on...
The Declaration of Insurance Independence
Dave Chase is the founder and CEO of Avado, a TechCrunch Disrupt NYC finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice and was the founder of Microsoft’s Health business. This is Part I of a two-part post. You can follow him on Twitter @chasedave. The scale of the Do-it-Yourself (DIY) Health Reform movement...