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You mean you never heard of Billy Durant, the real founder of General Motors? Durant was an early 20th century entrepreneur, whose series of pivots, board firings, and general insane greatness reminds me of another more recent incarnation of this … Continue reading →

I haven’t thought about Google’s App Inventor since it was thrown off Sergey and Larry’s bus this past summer. Yes, it does live on as an open source project at MIT’s Media Labs, but certainly the orphaning of AI has … Continue reading →

I had great unobstructed front rows seats for last night’s Hacks/Hackers Meetup NYC. Exiled to the long waiting list, I instead watched a livestream of the interactive map making presentations with my MacBook propped on the coffee table in my … Continue reading →

I received a gentle introduction to transmedia storytelling at a meetup last night organized by a NYC group dedicated to spinning yarns around a digital fireplace. My reason for going was to hear author and Wired writer Frank Rose, who … Continue reading →

After losing to Watson at IBM’s booth during the Predictive Analytics World conference, I stopped by Revolution Analytics digs to regain my strength. Revolution, by the way, provides support (consulting, training) for the R statistical language, as well as offering … Continue reading →

NJ Tech Meetup is the new name for Hoboken Tech Meetup. Everything else has remained pretty much the same since my last visit to Stevens Institute, the home of this Jersey-based startup gathering: interesting demos, great energy, and exceptional speakers. … Continue reading →

Good news today for Yaron Samid and his company BillGuard. They’ve received $10 million in a Series B round of funding led by Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), and Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors).

Exhilarating, frustrating, muddled, tea-party-ish, revealing, revolting, liberal rationalist, and hyper-optimistic are just a few of the pithy comments I tapped into my magical (inside joke) Apple MacBook. And I hope not to hear the word exponential in general conversation for … Continue reading →

I’ve been at more than a few singles event at the 92nd Street YMHA during my solo period. Just to be clear, the Singularity Summit that’s being held at the Y this weekend will bring together AI researchers, neuroscientists, mathematicians, … Continue reading →