Broadband for the 33%: FCC Implements Low Cost Service Program
An underpinning of the National Broadband Plan is Universal Service Fund reform and greater broadband adoption. The Plan calls for the creation of a Connect …
Senate To Vote On Anti-Net Neutrality Resolution
The US Senate is expected to vote on Joint Resolution 6 this week. You mean you’ve forgotten about this? SJ 6 is a one sentence …
App Inventor Nostalgia: It’s Still Pretty Good.
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 …
The 1-Hour Map: Hacks/Hackers NYC Inspires Me
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 …
FanGager Continues to Engage
FanGager has added over 100 new engagements to its repertoire of games, videos, and other hooks for measuring user interactions with a brand. This latest …
Creeepy Halloween iPhone App
Rob in San Francisco sent us a link to an interactive, scary, and–dare I say it–immersive iPhone app. We didn’t get chance to test its …
BridesView’s Wedding Dessert Photos!
Fall: rain, cold mornings, oatmeal for breakfast, criminal complaint against Raj Gupta showing yet again an out of control Wall Street culture, leaf-clogged drains, and …
Transmedia 101: Frank Rose, Zombies, and Immersive Story Telling
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 …
Akamai’s State of the Internet: US is Number 12
Akamai released its 2Q2011 results of Internet statistics today. With 30% of the world’s IP packets passing through its content delivery network, they’re in a …
R is Everywhere (Just Hidden)
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 …
Wanderfly: Around the World in One Minute
To celebrate on-line travel suggestion site Wanderfly’s first birthday, this startup put together a 60-second travelogue based on pictures taken from around the world.
More on Watson for Health Care
Watson, the Jeopardy playing super-computer, is out to take on new challenges. Rather than reworking its algorithms for a chance to compete on say “Deal …
NJTM 10/17/2011: Fabulous Fabrice Grinda, Entrepreneur and Angel Investor
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 …
BillGuard Raises $10 Million in Series B Funding
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 …
What You Missed at Singularity Summit 2011
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) …
Live From Singularity Summit 2011
My seatmate, who had been to previous Singularity events, assured me that my mind would be blown away. He was quite right.And I’ve only been …
Singularity Summit at the 92nd Street Y
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 …
Narus’s New CyberAnalytics App
Narus’s deep packet inspection technology has many applications. It’s ability to to scoop up packet details in real-time and make sense of conversations is ideal …
Kikin’s Smart Browser for the iPad
There’s a revealing quote in James B. Stewart’s piece on Steve Jobs in today’s New York Times. Stewart captures the essence of Job’s vision of …
WanderFly Links Up With The Times
Travel idea web site WanderFly now has a presence in the The New York Times Travel section. They’re over on the left column. So now …