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The HBR Blog Network is where we go to gain insights from our business elite. Their guest bloggers can be counted on to dispense advice on macro-level issues–Eurozone or other monetary crisis–as well as helpful tips on more granular concerns, … Continue reading →

FYI: New York University’s ITP has moved back its plans to set up shop in Shanghai by a year. Midori Yasuda, ITP’s admission coordinator, said that the logistics of setting this up proved to be a challenge. ITP is now … Continue reading →

In Manhattan last Thursday night,I stopped by the NY Future Mobility Meetup at BMW’s iVentures HQ on Morton street. With Bavarian Motor Works the sponsor of this meetup, you’d think the discussion would be car-centric. Kein! Instead there was an … Continue reading →

While the rest of us were having our usual Saturday nights, hackers from the New York City metro area and from far away places, like New Haven, Philadelphia, and something called Boston, coded away the night at NYU’s Courant Institute … Continue reading →

Software startups, unlike their industrial-age grandparents, don’t have to do a messy retooling of their factory to change product lines. They revamp their look-and-feel and business model after a spell of all-night coding sessions. That ain’t easy either. In the … Continue reading →

Friday morning I received a product tour of a very usable and useful SEO web service called InboundWriter. The name says it all. This San Francisco-based startup has a WordPress plug-in that gently guides non-technical creative types in boosting the … Continue reading →

Last September I remember being excited by the great visual data presentations at O’Reilly’s Strata Summit. Somewhere around that time I also signed up for Visual.ly’s infographic generation app. Visual.ly, by the way, was founded by some of the key … Continue reading →

A long time ago, in a magic kingdom called California, the simple but good townspeople were bored looking at their DOS-based command line and copying files between directories. Then a few wizards realized that if they conjured up an application … Continue reading →

This morning legislative leaders in both House and Senate announced they would be postponing votes on their respective anti-piracy acts. There’s little doubt that some kind of online copyright infringement rules will emerge again, but not in the form they … Continue reading →

We have one eye scanning news coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show underway in Las Vegas. And with 3D on our minds lately–see last few posts–we were preconditioned to be receptive to this latest announcement from Samsung, Panasonic, Sony … Continue reading →