The video feed taken from when the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu ‘hung out’ on Google+ is now available on YouTube. The role technology played bringing these two hugely influential world figures is quite amazing, and the duo – and other watchers – are initially quite astonished that the link up worked as...
Daily Archives: October 9, 2011
Android Market blocked in China again – but for how long?
Google’s rocky relationship with the Chinese government is under further strain after it emerged that the Android’s app store, Market, is unavailable for many users in China, with others reporting lag and time-out issues accessing the site. Blocked In China, a site which tests whether URLs are accessible across five major provinces in the...
Less Than A Month After Winning Disrupt, Shaker Raises $15 Million
Shaker, the Israeli startup that won Disrupt SF less than a month ago, is raising a hefty $15 million series A. The round is being led by Menlo Ventures, with good-karma VC Shervin Pishevar doing the deal. Michael Arrington’s CrunchFund is also an investor, along with Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, Lady Gaga’s manager Troy...
A cheatsheet of peer-to-peer car sharing players
Two peer-to-peer car sharing startups have launched in the Bay Area in recent months (there’s at least five here now), and there’s now four peer-to-peer car sharing companies in France. Yeah, it looks like a bubble, but the amount of drivers and car owners in these networks is actually really small, so there’s room...
Social media ROI: It’s not about immediate results
Remember a week or two ago when I told everyone to invite me to join your mafia in Crime City on Google+ Games because I just loved it so, so much…? Yeah. Stop that. There’s no way for me to individually mute the other games, so people are inviting me to a bunch of...
American Express To Release An API For Digital Wallet Platform Serve; Focuses On Data And Personalization
Over the past year, American Express has been making several key payments partnerships with technology companies and launched its take on the digital wallet, Serve. Serve integrates a variety of payment options into a single account that can be funded from a bank account, debit, credit or charge card. The company has also landed...
Meet Junto, the world’s wonkiest incubator
There was a joke that came from the first great dotcom disaster, that when incubators spring up to incubate nascent incubators, there is a problem. It was true. I’ve recently had the good fortune to meet and befriend a Chicago-based team building what is quite simply the most audacious incubator. Or the silliest. They...
Where Were You When Apple II?
The seed is sewn In the summer of 1976, the first “homebrew computer shows” consisted of weekend hobbyists who had constructed kit computers out of the first publicly available microprocessors and memory chips. Up until that time, “mini-computers” were comprised of logic circuits and soldered transistors. Now there were microcomputers, whose logic was represented...
7 Stories to read this weekend
It has been a tough week. The loss of one of technology industry’s icons has weighed heavily on me and as a result I am slow in sharing some posts and stories I found worth reading and thinking about. Hope you find time to read/enjoy them. How global screen culture will affect us. Jan...
#LiveLikeSteve
This is a guest post by Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk), Director of Product Management at Google. I’m fairly certain Steve Jobs wouldn’t be satisfied hearing about how your IIe was the gateway to a life in programming. Or your retweet of “.” Or your Facebook profile pic changing to a screenshot of the Apple.com memorial...