Technology Review: Taxis of Tomorrow, Flying Cars
The taxi of tomorrow gets a failing grade from me for one reason: it needed to be 100% electric to pass.
New York City
The impending Age Of Abundance was prophecied in the scriptures thousands of years ago.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Friday, April 13, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Instagram Sell Feedback
@JerryKetel I think they should have asked for a higher price.
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) April 10, 2012
@paramendra That kind of money reminds me of the MySpace and AOL deals. Crazy and ultimately overpriced. #Bubble
— Jerry Ketel (@JerryKetel) April 11, 2012
@urbantrekker I think they undersold themselves.
— Paramendra Bhagat (@paramendra) April 10, 2012
@paramendra I see. You're seeing the future!
— Dewita Soeharjono (@urbantrekker) April 11, 2012
Now That Instagram Has Been Bought By Facebook
Instagram: A Billion In Two Years
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Power
Technology Review: The Computing Trend that Will Change Everything: using ultra-low-power computing, consider the wireless no-battery sensors ..... These sensors harvest energy from stray television and radio signals and transmit data from a weather station to an indoor display every five seconds. They use so little power (50 microwatts, on average) that they don't need any other power source. ..... and that means an explosion of available data ..... "nanodata," or customized fine-grained data describing in detail the characteristics of individuals, transactions, and information flows .... if a modern-day MacBook Air operated at the energy efficiency of computers from 1991, its fully charged battery would last all of 2.5 seconds ..... will help the "Internet of things" become a reality—a development with profound implications for how businesses, and society generally, will develop in the decades ahead. It will enable us to control industrial processes with more precision, to assess the results of our actions quickly and effectively, and to rapidly reinvent our institutions and business models to reflect new realities. It will also help us move toward a more experimental approach to interacting with the world: we will be able to test our assumptions with real data in real time, and modify those assumptions as reality dictates.There are implications to the internet of things, of small sensors constantly streaming data about, say, the ecosystem. This trend is great news for devices that are much smaller than the smartphone. You are looking at pea size particles that are smart.
The Internet Of Things
Another Ode To Big Data
We are looking at smart particles that don't need to have screens.
Now That Instagram Has Been Bought By Facebook
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY - OCTOBER 06: A picture in remembrance of Steve Jobs, founder and former CEO of Apple Inc is pictured at an Apple Store, on October 6, 2011 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Steve Jobs, 56, passed away after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 and is credited, along with Steve Wozniak, with marketing the world's first personal computer in addition to the popular iPod, iPhone and iPad. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)GigaOm: Here is why Facebook bought InstagramI want Facebook to push Instagram to come up with a web version of the product. And I want to be able to do the Instagram effect thing to my Facebook photos. Not all of them, but those I choose.
That would be awesome.
Instagram: A Billion In Two Years
Facebook buying Instagram is Facebook admitting it is essentially a photo sharing site.
What is most remarkable about the Instagram story is that it has essentially been an iPhone app. That's it. I guess it is possible for one iPhone app to end up worth a billion dollars.
This transaction is a tribute to Steve Jobs.
Pinterest Competes With Twitter, Instagram With FourSquare
Another important thing Facebook could do is give each photo its own unique URL that is not a mile long. And the ability for anyone to embed that photo, if the photo is publicly shared.
Instagram Does Not Know What It Has On Its Hands
Instagram Now Bigger Than FourSquare
Kevin Shitstorm Of Instagram
Instagram Wave
Path + Instagram + Color
Instagram Magic
Scaling Instagram Out Of A Coworking Space
Monday, April 09, 2012
Instagram: A Billion In Two Years
Image via CrunchBaseTo create a billion dollars in wealth in just two years is remarkable no matter which way you look at it. And this is Facebook's first acquisition. Acquiring companies to shut down their product and hire their people doesn't count. Instagram should have come on Android sooner. And it should have gone for a web presence very early on. Instagram not having a web version gave Pinterest a lot of room. Those three things - not adopting Android early, not having a web version, and now selling to Facebook - tell me the Instagram founders never really knew what they had in their hands.
I hope Facebook pushes them to get a web version.
Zappos should not have been bought by Amazon. Instagram should not have been bought by Facebook. Both needed to stay independent.
Mark Zuckerberg On The Acquisition
Instagram Blog: Instagram + Facebook
TechCrunch: Right Before Acquisition, Instagram Closed $50M At A $500M Valuation From Sequoia, Thrive, Greylock And Benchmark
Events: Week Of April 9
Image via CrunchBaseMonday, April 9 6:30 PM CTO School: Technologists Pesonality Traits and How To Pick A Startup
ZocDoc, 568 Broadway, #901
Tuesday, April 10
6:00 PM Riverside Chats: Speakers Series - Successful Transitions from Academia to Startups
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 430 E. 67th Street, Rockefeller Board Room
Wednesday, April 11
7:00 PM #GoogleHappyHour
Randolph Beer, 343 Broome Street
Thursday, April 12
6:00 PM Startup - From Concept to Acquisition Using Django
Yipit Offices, 3 W 18th Street
Sunday, April 15
6:00 PM Cocktails & Conversation with Chinese Social Entrepreneurs
General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Floor
Sunday, April 08, 2012
Google Plus Is Google's Bing
Image via CrunchBaseTechCrunch: How The IPO Ruined GoogleI never thought Google Plus was going to one up Facebook. Facebook is the social king. And that will stay. Just like Google is the search king and that will stay. Facebook tried to one up FourSquare, and failed. It gave up. But Facebook can not ignore the location space, and Google can not ignore social.
But I do think Google Plus is an arrival of sorts. Google wanted a player in the social space, and now they got it. They needed an also ran, and they have it now. Google badly needed a social layer to its services, and now they got it.
Saturday, April 07, 2012
Tom Houge
The evening of April 3, Tuesday, I had a Skype chat with Tom that lasted 2 hours, 45 minutes. We were not done, it is just that two of my friends had been waiting in the wings for half an hour already for a prescheduled chat, and I had to take leave. Tom's video was on.
This was the longest Skype chat I had ever had with anyone. We met at an event two days later, his uncle Adam accompanying. Adam and I discovered we are both water not beer kinda people.
Fipeo Takes On Sean Parker
Excited About A New Space
This was the longest Skype chat I had ever had with anyone. We met at an event two days later, his uncle Adam accompanying. Adam and I discovered we are both water not beer kinda people.
Fipeo Takes On Sean Parker
Excited About A New Space
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)