I would normally rather have a root canal instead of write about the issue of women in technology. I just find most essays on this really tedious and obvious. (Sorry Alexia.) But I do want to point one thing out. When I went to my first Y Combinator Demo Day three years ago, there...
Google has decided to make its simple search box into yet another thing. It’s now a WebGL-powered 3D graphing calculator. If you type in a two-variable function, Google’s search box on the desktop will graph an animated, interactive, 3D plot right in your browser. Google is moving increasingly toward providing answers when they’re faster...
Radiant Logic RadiantOne My friend and colleague David Strom introduced you to Radiant Logic last July. As you may recall, it offers what it describes as “identity-as-a-service,” and its customers are enterprises looking to federate their employees’ identity across multiple applications, both in the cloud and on-premise. The “as-a-service” phrase is a surprising choice...
What kind of revenue numbers would justify Pinterest’s $200 million valuation? Atlantic writer Alexis Madrigal and others have used back-of-the-envelope math to explain this valuation. In his article, “Why Pinterest Is Playing Dumb About Making Money,” Madrigal puts Pinterest’s annual revenue at $45 million a year. Based on statistical modeling, I believe there is...
Karen Reilly, operations lead at Cernam, got in touch shortly after the story to say that the company is working on something similar to what I’d described, and what they call “Consent Based Capture.” Basically, this allows Cernam to collect evidence from Facebook, Gmail, Google Docs or other services based on consent of the...
Facebook’s latest valuation just reached over $100 billion, and for some reason that struck a chord with me, especially considering the number of users on Facebook. So, just because it’s an interesting thing to think about and not a serious calculation, we decided to do some math: We reported earlier today that the last auction of Facebook shares on the...
Wikimedia Commons/ Michael Sprague Forbes estimates Allen’s net worth at $14.2 billion. See Also Paul Allen Spends $500 Million To Find Out How The Brain Works VC Legend Ann Winblad Told Us This Great Bit Of Advice This Famous Serial Entrepreneur Tossed His Apple MacBook For This Android Ice Cream Sandwich Microsoft co-founder Paul...
Photos and video can be even more personal than a handwritten card. That’s why Hallmark has just acquired SpiritClips, an online video production and streaming service that also makes personalized digital greeting cards. It looks like Hallmark customers will soon be able to create and send e-cards by uploading their own photos or choosing...
Seedcamp‘s Seedhack FinTech event has kicked off a weekend of hacking financial services. Not for nefarious means (we hope) but to address how we currently interact with our banking and financial services. Over the next two days, a gathering of developers, business minds, coders and designers at Google’s Campus are snapping up access to...
I mostly use Facebook to network with writers, artists and people in the arts, so I curated my profile on The Creative Finder with the same imagery. In this updated version of the site, a search for “kittens” brings up both profiles and images containing that keyword. The Creative Finder also provides a main...