Editor’s note: Guest author Aaron Levie is the founder and CEO of Box.net Thomas Wailgum, an editor at CIO.com, summed up the enterprise software industry best when he wrote, “It might appear that even tobacco companies enjoy a better level of overall ‘likeability’ than do enterprise software vendors.” The way successful enterprise software companies...
I had a long chat with John Hagel, co-author of The Power of Pull and one of the most foremost thinkers on technology and its impact on the future of work, life and how we relate to each other. Along with co-author John Sealy-Brown, Hagel touched on many of these themes at our Net:Work...
CourseHorse cofounders Katie Kapler and and Nihal Parthasarathi met at NYU. Image: CourseHorse See Also: FROM PARADISE TO SLUM: Shocking Facts About The New York City Wealth Gap Car Service Startup Uber Scoops Up The Glee Cast “Our Top NYC Customer Spends $6,000 Per Month” Says Uber When 25-year-old North Carolina native Katie Kapler...
Syrian blogger and web developer Anas Maarawi is the latest online activist to have been detained in a series of arrests sweeping Syria. Detained on July 1 in Damascus, news of Maarawi’s arrest did not emerge until later in the week, and since then, a Facebook page has been created, campaigning for his release. The page...
In November 2010, UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to transform the UK into a major international hub for technology and innovation. His vision is to make London’s Tech City one to rival Silicon Valley, and the means to achieve this were set out in the government’s Blueprint for Technology paper. The proposed...
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YouTube this week revealed one of its latest experiments — a new interface for its videos, playlists and user channels dubbed “Cosmic Panda.” The blog post announcing the decision makes clear that Cosmic Panda (love that name, by the way) is very much in development, and that YouTube engineers are looking for feedback from...