Dr. Gregory House, as you might by now know, is one of my favorite fictional characters. He is a misanthropic, social misfit who is borderline genius yet an idiot. One of his more memorable lines goes something like this – “Almost dying doesn’t change anything. Dying changes everything.” House’s quip, while powerful on screen,...
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Microsoft is testing a targeted social network called So.cl (pronounced “social”) on three college campuses. So.cl is currently only available to students interested in social media at the University of Washington, Syracuse University, and New York University. The network is built off of Bing’s API and, as described by Microsoft, works as “a research...
Campeaux writes that the threats “freaked me out,” and has responded “by deleting everything I ever published to Google+. Google won’t do anything to stop these people from harassing me so I’ve closed off my account completely: limited comments; no email; no notifications.” The Backstory Campeaux tagged three people in his sign-off note from...
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Television is still going strong while the print media is being completely demolished. But the end of television as we know it is coming. Soon. Glenn Beck who spoke at our Ignition conference this month had an interesting and practical explanation about what broadcast media might look like in the next few years. The...
When AOL’s Engadget lost its roster of star editors and reporters, the natural assumption for many people in the tech-media world was that it was in big trouble. Well, guess what? Engadget is doing just fine without those writers. We asked comScore for data on the site, and as you can see, traffic has...
Kids these days! Back in my day I considered myself lucky if I got a video game and a few sweaters for Christmas. Maybe a Lego set. I probably would’ve lost my marbles if Santa put a pocket-sized touchscreen computer under the tree. Fast forward to Christmas 2011, where Twitter apparently became a repository...
Mobility has changed the chip industry already, but the rise of the iPhone and devices such as e-readers are only the beginning. If we’re going to create an Internet of things that connects back to a cloud powered by millions of servers, the chip world will have to change drastically to reduce power consumption,...