Daily Archives: September 25, 2011

Clinging To Friction: Some Thoughts On Facebook’s f8

September 25, 2011
Clinging To Friction: Some Thoughts On Facebook’s f8

It’s been over 72 hours since Facebook first debuted a series of groundbreaking new features at f8, which is all the time I need to predict the company’s long-term outlook, the way it will reinvent the web, and the pricing of its inevitable IPO. Okay, maybe not. But it’s given me some time to...

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Driverless Tractors & Farmer Drones of the Future (Video)

September 25, 2011
Driverless Tractors & Farmer Drones of the Future (Video)

In case you’ve fallen behind in your farm machinery reading, a recent video from Farm Equipment Magazine is worth giving some special attention. The video below gives a preview of a new product called the Kinze Autonomy Project, a new set of tractor and grain cart unveiled this Summer that drive themselves to harvest...

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The smarter enterprise

September 25, 2011
The smarter enterprise

Enterprises spend $270 billion on software every year, yet some can’t even calculate the number of employees in their organizations. Shocking? Well, such was the problem for Chiquita before they moved to Workday.  But rudimentary challenges like this plague every enterprise in the world, and every individual within those enterprises. When we need to derive...

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Purchase, Search and Social: Who controls what data in Web 2.0? [Infographic]

September 25, 2011
Purchase, Search and Social: Who controls what data in Web 2.0? [Infographic]

The Web 2.0 Summit is just around the corner, October 17th thru 19th, in San Francisco. With that in mind, the brains behind the Summit have put together some incredible maps over the past couple of years. As a visual representation, the team has created a new world map that showed the points of...

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Something is rocking in the state of Denmark: Why Copenhagen is a startup city to watch

September 25, 2011
Something is rocking in the state of Denmark: Why Copenhagen is a startup city to watch

Think about the big European tech startup cities, and London, Berlin – maybe Amsterdam, will probably come to mind. However, up in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, a scene is emerging that’s well worth paying attention to. A rich vein of technical and design talent is building a new generation of companies with an...

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PayPal Now Processing $315 Million In Payments Per Day

September 25, 2011
PayPal Now Processing $315 Million In Payments Per Day

Wow. PayPal released some new public numbers recently that show the payments platform is processing a massive number of payments per day. PayPal says that it saw $3,650 in Total Payment Volume every second in Q2 2011. By our calculations, that means PayPal is processing around $315.3 million in payments per day. On average,...

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Google And Monopoly Theater

September 25, 2011
Google And Monopoly Theater

As I watched the Google antitrust hearings last Wednesday, with its gotcha moments and Senators pontificating about the dangers Google poses to society, it struck me that what I was watching was theater. And not just any theater, but monopoly theater. I am borrowing from the concept of security theater: “a term that describes...

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Cartoon: The Only Constant

September 25, 2011
Cartoon: The Only Constant

Another week, another massive change to Facebook. I’ve done the developer workaround to get Timeline added to my profile, and now I have to plow through several years of my life to remove hideously embarrassing incidents lend some coherence to it. And listen, I’m all in favor of them innovating and offering amazing new...

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Samsung Sells 10 Million Galaxy S II Phones, But That’s Hardly A Threat To The iPhone

September 25, 2011
Samsung Sells 10 Million Galaxy S II Phones, But That’s Hardly A Threat To The iPhone

Image: Steve Kovach, Business Insider See Also: iPhone 4S Cases Are Already In ATT Stores Forget E-Books — Now You Can Check Out iPads From The Library Apple’s Big iPhone 5 Event Will Be Held On Its Campus Samsung announced today that it has sold 10 million Galaxy S II smartphones worldwide in five...

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Top 5 things you should know about term sheets

September 25, 2011
Top 5 things you should know about term sheets

Many entrepreneurs are in the process of fundraising. However, many are unaware of the most favorable terms for raising money from investors and confused about what terms to focus on in a term sheet. We have recently seen a substantial increase in questions on this topic at LawPivot, and want to help entrepreneurs better...

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