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  • Powercast’s technology cuts the electric cord

    Powercast and its first major partner, electronics giant Philips, are set to launch their first device powered by electricity broadcast through the air. Powercast’s technology cuts the electric cord

    March 31, 2007

  • Justin.tv

    Eleven days ago, 23-year-old Justin Kan was just another no-name startup guy with big dreams of the small screen. Then he and his friends launched Justin.tv, an Internet reality show chronicling their…

    March 30, 2007

  • U.S. “No Longer Technology King”

    The US is now ranked seventh in the body’s league table measuring the impact of technology on the development of nations. A deterioration of the political and regulatory environment in the US…

    March 29, 2007

  • Flickr Turns 3

    It’s hard to believe Flickr has only been around for a few years. It seems like I’ve been using it much, much longer than three years. That’s testament to its lure, success,…

    March 5, 2007

  • SXSW Interactive Panel

    A few months ago I was asked by Tom Markiewicz, CEO of EvolvePoint, to be on a panel about “Using RSS for Marketing” for the SXSW Interactive Conference coming up March 9-13…

    February 12, 2007

  • Women 2.0 Entrepreneurship

    I was glad to see two interesting initiatives this week related to women and girls in technology. The first was Entrepreneurial Night by Girls’ Middle School in Mountain View and held at…

    February 12, 2007

  • Fluid UI: Multi-touch screen

    [youtube]PqXPD7EHDto[/youtube] As we amass more and more data, it seems only natural that we’ll need new methods to navigate this space. Jeff Han’s multi-touch screen is impressive. I don’t know if it’s…

    February 3, 2007

  • Wikinomics

    Thanks to Don Tapscott for the book!

    January 6, 2007

  • Widgets Live!

    I’m at the Widgets Live! conference this afternoon with a sold-out crowd of widget geeks, technologists, developers, bloggers and execs at the Marines’ Club in San Francisco. Widgets Live! is the first…

    November 7, 2006

  • Vox Launches

    Vox, Six Apart’s new blog service, launched on Oct 26. Vox puts the emphasis on personal blogging and sharing with friends and family. It features advanced privacy controls, a stunning variety of…

    October 29, 2006

  • Yahoo! Photos Redesign

    Yahoo gave a demo to a small group tonight at the Frey Norris Gallery in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Brad Garlinghouse, Vice President of Communications, Community and Front Door…

    June 8, 2006

  • Pre-Pre-Supernova Party

    Thursday night was Kevin Werbach’s Pre-Pre-Supernova party here in SF, just a couple blocks away at Cha-Am Thai. The dinner was a great chance to network and chat with leading tech innovators,…

    February 19, 2006

  • TechCrunch 5 Party

    Mike Arrington’s TechCrunch 5 party for Shel Israel and Robert Scoble’s new book, Naked Conversations, was a big success on Friday night in Atherton, CA. Some 400 people showed up at Mike’s…

    February 19, 2006

  • JP Morgan and Connector Group Showcase

    The JP Morgan and Connector Group Showcase, “a unique forum for companies to introduce their leading-edge products and services to the Silicon Valley’s elite group of tastemakers and influencers ,” took place…

    January 31, 2006

  • Yahoo! Design Group Dinner

    We had the wonderful opportunity to attend an informal dinner on Monday night here in SF with the Yahoo! design group and a mix of fellow designers, developers, and even some HCI…

    January 31, 2006

  • New Startups and Web 2.0 Products Debut at E27 Technology Symposium

    Earlier today, I went to the E27 Technology Symposium at Stanford University. E27 is “a forum for young entrepreneurs to showcase their upcoming or new products to influential representatives from newspapers, popular…

    January 28, 2006

  • Microsoft Search Champs v4

    My partner at Ideacodes, Max Kiesler, and I are back from attending Search Champs which took place this week, January 24 – 26 at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. Search Champs is an…

    January 28, 2006

  • Kevin Kelly: Out of Control

    Though it was written more than ten years ago, this caught my attention and seemed particularly relevant again.  From Kevin Kelly’s Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and…

    October 7, 2005

  • Google Wants to Provide Free Wi-Fi for San Francisco

    San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom made it a goal to provide a free or inexpensive citywide network last year and bids were submitted by competing firms this Friday, mostly by ISP companies. …

    October 1, 2005

  • OS 10.3

    I can’t wait to use the feature “instantly see all windows.” Here’s a small demo of Expose for OS 10.3 (aka Panther).

    July 3, 2003

  • Streaming to capturing

    If you listen to streaming music as much as I do, you’ll enjoy this piece on recording streaming audio by Mark Twain of TechTV.

    March 31, 2003

  • Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time

    Pyra is the company co-founded by Meg Hourihan and Evan Williams, the creators of Blogger.  “The buyout is a huge boost to an enormously diverse genre of online publishing that has begun…

    February 16, 2003

  • HTML’s Time is Over. Let’s Move On.

    Ultimately, I don’t see a long term future for HTML as an application development solution. It is a misapplied tool that was never meant to be used for anything other than distributed…

    January 31, 2003

  • For the People, By the People…

    Came across the Public Internet Project website.  Non-profit organisation that seeks to promote 802.11b WiFi access to diverse communities.  They conducted extensive research in Manhattan, beginning with the task of driving “every…

    January 4, 2003