As a way of keeping up with the times and maintaining more efficient student administration, colleges and universities across the United States have decided to create their own tailored social networking sites, with the help of a couple of tech-savvy startups.
Having an official fan page on Facebook is great for creating a niche for students, [...]
Mark Fletcher is the online startup genius who created and developed two major online products that have revolutionized the way that people use the internet. Bloggers and web journalists around the world are wondering whether he has done it again with the new startup company called SnapGroups.
Before Yahoo! Groups, there was no easy way for [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on May 10th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Business, innovation, internet, start-up, Technology, web
Despite the recent moves to curtail the tech giant’s online dominance, prompting most companies to circle their wagons, Google appears to be taking the opposite approach, further diversifying its business model instead. I read this both as a sign of confidence in its current offerings and as a logical next step in order to leverage [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on September 11th, 2009 @ 9:51 am
Tagged with: Business, deal, efficiency, energy, Google, Green, innovation, innovative, investing, investment, IT, markets, media, metrics, online, opportunities, opportunity, Technology, web
The recent collaboration between Microsoft and Yahoo! along with predictions that the future of the search could be the addition of “social relevancy” have pointed the lens squarely at the search engine as the most important piece of real estate in the quest for dominance online, but if we zoom out a frame, I have [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 14th, 2009 @ 12:44 pm
Tagged with: Apple, browser, Google, internet, markets, microsoft, mobile, online, product, search, search engine, spaces, start-up, Technology, user experience, web
The resignation today of Erik Schmidt, CEO of Google, from Apple’s board of directors came as little surprise to many in the industry, considering the “potential conflicts of interest” between them. While the two tech giants have been seen as allies for the last handful of years, Google’s emerging product offerings – the G1 smartphone [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 3rd, 2009 @ 3:31 pm
Tagged with: Apple, browser, Business, economy, Erik E. Schmidt, Google, market share, microsoft, search, software, Steve Jobs, web, web supremacy
It’s nearly impossible these days to pick up a newspaper or read a blog and not find some discussion of the future of the media business and what it means for journalism. To say that it’s an experimental time in the way content is distributed and funded is a bit of an understatement perhaps, as [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on July 31st, 2009 @ 1:36 pm
Tagged with: Business, funding, inspirational, integrity, journalism, marketing, media, News, reporting, web
I’ve been highlighting some of thoughts from around the web on topics ranging from business and philanthropy to art and society. I hope that by sharing these insights, I’m contributing to the pool of knowledge that is freely accessible to everyone online and creating an environment for discussion. To that end, I’ve recently participated in [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on July 31st, 2009 @ 11:14 am
Tagged with: art, discussion, forum, insights, interview, knowledge, opportunity, philanthropist, philanthropy, sharing, The Importance of Art, thought, video, web
In a piece for the New York Times titled “Has Wikipedia Created Rorschach Chat Sheet,” author Noam Cohen exposes an interesting clash between the decades old practice of human medicine and the phenomenon of technology. The offense is not that Wikipedia purports to have the answers to nearly everything under the sun, it’s that a test [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on July 29th, 2009 @ 1:50 pm
Tagged with: copyright, infringement, intellectual property, International Society of the Rorschach and Projective Methods, internet, Rorschach, sharing, Technology, web, Wikipedia
As our culture shifts towards greater immediacy and connectivity enabled by faster mobile networks and loaded handsets, we’re witnessing a profound change in consumer expectations that is having an effect across multiple industries from finance and technology to media and entertainment. Much of this is being fueled by the development of applications that seek to [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on July 22nd, 2009 @ 4:31 pm
Tagged with: Business, growth, innovative, interface, internet, investing, mobile, mobile applications, networks, niche, smartphones, Technology, web
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.