More Kickstarter Projects: Robotbase’s Personal AI-bot
Robotbase’s Personal Robot is the most ambitious project that I’ve seen so far on Kickstarter. If the pitch video of this mobile Siri-like bot is anywhere …
Category: Social Studies
Interview with NYU’s Justin Cappos: Our Pathetic Password Protection
My interview is not here at TvB, but over on my other show at the Metadata Era. Professor Cappos is an Associate Professor of Computer …
More Advertisements for Myself: Authentication Ebook Explains it All
As tech editorial writers have informed us, this has been the year of the breach. I’m shocked! My go to source for breach stats is …
bpmonline’s Cloud-Based CRM
Another gathering of Ukraine startups happened while I was on holiday in September. Like the last few times, these events are out in San Francisco–hey, …
Brief note on StarSnap: You Oughta Be in Pictures
A little summer fun comes by way of an iPhone app that finds close enough matches of your selfie amongst celebrity photos. By the way, …
Brief Note on Anonymizer: Simple Secure Browsing
I’ve been busy working on my other channel where with each post I’ve become despairing of IT security. For your personal computing, you can take …
CE Week NYC 2014
Blogging has been a light this month because I was slogging through some other assignments. We’ll be back at it again with CE Week returning …
The New Photojournalism: Brief Chat with Fresco’s John Meyer
Lord knows journalism needs help. Sure there’re promising green shoots: data-oriented journalism, the open data movement, and crowd-sourced reporting and analysis to name a few. …
Advertisements for Myself: My Phishing and Data Breach eBook
I wrote an incredibly readable eBook on the most important challenge facing humankind IT. Give me ten minutes of your time, and by the end of “Anatomy of a Phish” you’ll have a complete grasp
Investigative Data Parsing Courtesy of Hacks/Hackers
I haven’t been to a Hacks/Hackers event in a good long time. The sessions are ostensibly geared towards journalists and investigative reporters–of which I’m neither–but …
Bruce Schneier at CUNY Crypto Conference: “We’ve made bulk collection too easy”
Like everyone else following the news about the Snowden papers, I’m aware of the basic facts. Bulk collection of phone metadata, and taps on Yahoo …
Metadata Inferencing Meme Goes Mainstream
Knock me down with a feather. As a techy blogging bystander, I’ve been watching as the non-technical media world figures out the implications of the …
We Told You So: FBStalker and Mining Facebook Connections
In late 2012, we interviewed NYU-Poly’s Professor Keith Ross about his research into privacy loopholes in Facebook. Ross showed it was possible to work out …
Metadata Chronicles: NYT Beginning to Realize the NSA Builds Social Attribute Network
It is interesting and vaguely rewarding in a bloggy kind of way to watch The New York Times start connecting the dots and realizing that …
Marketing Meets News: NewsWhip’s Spike
Does the world really need another news site or app? Sometimes it’s hard to see how any value can be added to the already well …
Back from vacation. And by the way, Spotted by Locals is an essential travel aid.
I’ve been off the grid, more or less, for the last two weeks during an extended holiday in Madrid and surrounding countryside– Castilla y Leon …
Out of the Office
TvB is taking a much needed break. We’ll be back mid-September. (Photo: courtesy of Wikimedia)
Snapshot of PhotoShelter
As a forever-at-the-amateur-level photographer, I generally hate looking at the work of professional photographers. The photo pros make me realize how really good they are. …
Our Favorite SMB Apps, Summer 2013
Even with blogging a tad light the last few months, we’ve managed to find enough TvB-worthy finalists for our semi-occasional roster of favorite apps. Thankfully,TechCrunch …
Paul Revere’s Random Ride: Metadata And Social Attribute Networks
Like everyone else, I read Kieran Healy’s post on Paul Revere, the mostly highly connected person in Boston circa 1770. Healy, a sociologist at Duke, …