Last weekend, I attended Myojo-Waraku 2011 in Fukuoka/Southern Japan, a three-day tech and creative festival highly inspired by SXSW. Much like the event in the US, the idea for the counterpart in Japan (the first ever) is to bring together people from different fields, namely movies, music, games and interactive. More information about...
Today saw the Silicon Valley Comes To Tech City event take place in London. As part of a wider initiative called Silicon Valley Comes To The UK, organized by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and angel investor Sherry Coutu, it was designed to give existing and future entrepreneurs advice to help them build Britain’s next generation of...
Facebook’s Open Graph is ushering in a monumental shift in how we curate what we share. Curation used to mean opting in to sharing. You found or did something you thought your audience would care about, and you went to the trouble of sharing it. This worked when we didn’t have so much content...
Jim Breyer, the star venture partner at Accel, is a very busy man. He sits on the boards of Facebook, Walmart, News Corp, and Dell, among others. I caught up with him last week at the Techonomy conference, where he talked about what areas Accel is investing in. In Part I of my video...
The Way it Works Now is Wrong Facebook’s seamless sharing doesn’t just happen without notice. The way it works is that the user logs in to Facebook and finds news stories or other links from off-site posted to the top of their news feed. If they click those links, they are prompted to add...
If you are a gamer, of any stripe, there is a more than decent chance that you have played a ‘first person shooter’ style title. And if you have, then you have likely found yourself wandering down a dark hallway, waiting to blast your foes against the wall. The environment that you are playing in, dank,...
While the world is still getting its mind around the Lumia 710 and 800, the current Nokia Windows Phone handsets, another is potentially on the horizon. A video that Nokia ‘leaked’ a few days past had a new handset in it, causing a wave of speculation over just what phone it was, and if...
Hi children of the world, I actually don’t have 5000 Facebook Credits to give to each of you. I’m sorry about that, I wish I did. But before you get upset, let me explain. A few years ago, back when I was at VentureBeat, I wrote a post about an early version of Credits...
Editor’s note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He is Managing Director of Formula Capital and has written 6 books on investing. His latest book is I Was Blind But Now I See. You can follow him @jaltucher. When I was reading Walter Isaacson’s biography on Steve Jobs it suddenly brought back memories of the...
We’ve already introduced you to Centrally, a service similar to About.me, but catering to businesses, rather than individuals. AboutOurWork is a new service which aims to do the same thing, but throws a few extra features into the mix. While Centrally offers most of the same features as AboutOurWork – allowing users to create...