The Gillmor Gang — Doc Searls, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — explored the legacy and impact of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. @dsearls called him the Beethoven of Business, and we spent the hour and 15 minutes matching that to what I called Jobs’ ability to listen to the future....
VMware has transformed the enterprise computing model more than any other company in the past decade. By allowing companies to add multiple virtual servers onto a single physical server, the company kicked off the first building block behind the adoption of private and public cloud architectures — the abstraction of applications and operating systems...
When I visited the German capital city of Berlin this week, I took the opportunity to meet as many tech startup entrepreneurs as I possibly could. As they showed me the apps they’d developed, one theme ran through all of them – they were all good-looking, and many of them were world-class gorgeous. Sure,...
With the Libyan uprising still in full swing, earlier this week we looked at some of the trusted places people could go to get reliable coverage of events as they unfolded. Whilst some of these were the usual news outlets, such as Reuters and the BBC, there was also a plethora of citizens on...
This has “done the rounds” but it’s a must see…. Mind blowing when you consider how fast GT Race Cars are. (Via Reddit.) Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/_vUPs9t9Sbk/
Former HotPotato founder and now Facebook employee Justin Shaffer wrote about Facebook’s improved photo experience yesterday. Photos are now shown on a clean white background (it was black). Uploaded images are bigger (720 pixels to 960 pixels, they load twice as fast, and they are shown in a higher resolution. More than 250 million...
Customers pining for the Samsung Galaxy S II handset received good and bad news, depending on their carrier of choice. While models of this popular and top-selling smartphone are expected to see ATT, Sprint and T-Mobile during a product launch next week, Verizon this week confirmed it would not be carrying the Galaxy S...
If you haven’t seen it yet, this is definitely worth a look: Instacane is very cool web collection of Instagram photos telling the story of Hurricane Irene. The site was set up by Chris Ackermann, the Director of Emerging Platforms at New York Times RD. He and his friend put it together yesterday. Not only...
For brands, social media is a relatively new marketing platform that has grown exponentially over the past few years. And investing in social media now has never been more important, as experts say social media is on target to be a $30 billion industry (per year) by 2015. Hiring a talented social media manager to take...
It’s hard to imagine anything more perfect that Slate’s decision to lay off its respected media critic Jack Shafer. Not perfect in a good way — I count myself amongst Shafer’s legions of fans — but perfect in the way that Alanis Morissette not understanding the meaning of ‘Ironic’ is perfect, or the way...