APIdays San Francisco
Last night, I moderated a panel on the current state and future of the API market at APIdays San Francisco. It was the first time APIdays had come to the States, originating in Paris where the biggest event in its series of multi-city conferences is hosted. There's a great round-up of photos and tweets here. …
The Dissolution of State
“Civilizations do fail. We have never yet seen one that hasn’t. The difference is that the torch of progress has in the past always passed to another region of the world. But we’ve now, for the first time, got a single global civilization. If it fails, we all fail together.” Tim O’Reilly, The Rise of …
A Personalized Google TV Station
A status update that included a link to a clip of the movie "Smokey and the Bandit" by my friend and Phi Tau fraternity brother, Sam Ceresi, sparked an idea this morning: create a television channel that does a 24x7 loop of the following movies: Rudy For Love of the Game Spaceballs History of the …
Futuregeek
This is what the lid of a beat up, old ThinkPad x570 should look like. It's like the mullet of laptops: business on the lid, Webkinz on the inside .
Developers, APIs and Landslide Victories
It's getting to be that time of year when pundits start making predictions about the hot technologies on tap for 2010. My favorite so far is less a prediction and more a reality that is happening right now. Mashable's Peter Cashmore points out that Foursquare is the next Twitter-like social technology to break out, however …
Defrag 2009: Day .5
It was arrival day for one of the tech industry's most brain-straining conferences, Defrag 2009, in Denver. Lots of catching up with old friends like Graeme Thickins and meeting new ones like PostRank CTO/founder Ilya Grigorik. Here's a quick shot from our table at the John Minnihan/Freepository-sponsored pre-conference dinner hanging with Infectious Greed's Paul Kedrosky, …
Is Technology Killing the Experience of the Experience?
I make no pains to hide that I am a proponent of the always on culture. I believe technology is less a shackle and more a liberating tool that frees people from archaic views on time and place relative to work (not to mention the positive effects technology has on the environment and economy via …
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My How Time Flies in Technology
How long have I been doing PR in the technology industry? How about 1997 when buying things on the Internet was a novel, really big deal. The things I've seen... (Click here for a larger version.)
Mobile Operations: The Lee Majors of the Enterprise
There appears to be a lot going on in the world of enterprise mobility (he says as he types this post from his iPhone on a bus at 5am). I say this after sitting and listening to a number of my client's customers who came together yesterday I'm Orlando to talk about how they are …
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