ATT has just announced a new security and home-automation system called Digital Life, which will be an IP-based platform that allows users to monitor and detect activity throughout their house remotely, and “take action” (as ATT put it) on devices like PCs, tablets, and smartphones. ATT actually goes so far as to say “there...
One week after our conference in Amsterdam, we are now back with our weekly media roundup. From World Press Freedom Day to Guardian Activate Summit in New York, the last days have been busy for the media world. Here are the top stories you may have missed. World Press Freedom Day, a long way...
This Ain’t Another Instagram First, let’s put this acquisition into perspective. Facebook bought Instagram last month for $1 billion in cash and stock. But Instagram had 35 million users and was growing fast. Glancee is not on that level (and neither is Highlight). I confirmed with Glancee CEO Andrea Vaccari tonight that Glancee recently...
Photos, location, professional networking, or all your real-life friends… Instagram, Foursquare, LinkedIn and Facebook lead social networking today because they’ve found existing the types of networks to connect users around. Now a new generation of startups has been showing up in recent months, trying to nail another type of networking that so far has...
I was recently in New York, and while there I ended up at an art opening, where I fell into a conversation with an art historian. Obviously, the conversation turned to the state of the “art world.” She was pretty candid when she said that these days it is less about art and more...
New York Magazine was kind enough to ask me to write a big story on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook to celebrate the company’s long-awaited IPO. The story’s out now, and you can read it here. If there’s anything good in it, it’s probably the result of excellent editing and research by James Burnett, Adam...
Networked energy storage will fundamentally disrupt the energy sector, Ryan Wartena, founder and CEO of Growing Energy Labs Inc (or GELI), tells me in his startup’s small lab and office space in the South of Market area of San Francisco. Wartena, a chemical engineer who previously set up a battery lab within the U.S....
Henry Blodget Mitt Romney has been going on about how we should be creating 500,000 jobs a month, so earlier we published a look at the number of jobs created per month in the good old days–the Bush Adminstration. The bottom line? On average, there were 20,000 jobs per month created in the 8...
This is the sort of story that hits your inbox, and you just know it’s going to be amazing. And I was right, this is hilarious. In the days of Gmail offering you 10 gigabytes of free storage, and Google proper providing a suite of products that work with Gmail to give you a tidy,...
The Internet is a lot like the American Dream. It’s this huge opportunity for anyone who wants to make something of themselves — a nearly ubiquitous platform to showcase skills and talents. Yet, it is so incredibly saturated with people trying to do exactly the same thing that the opportunity gets smaller and smaller,...