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Since we began tracking Facebook demographics in late May, weekly growth has held steady, usually in the low single-digits on a percentage basis. More importantly, it's fair to say that the compa...
Tim sent around a link to the VisionMobile report on open source technology in the mobile space, which I really enjoyed. It covers not just the software used at different layers in the stack, it ...
Newspapers’ business model is under severe pressure. We all know that, so I wanted to find out how bad it is by going over to Silicon Valley’s hometown newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News, and mee...
Google Chrome did a smart thing: Less. They unified the search box and address bar, since that's what people do anyway. That gives us back precious pixels for the only thing that's as important t...
Matt Mullenweg is the guy who runs Automattic, which makes WordPress and hosts this blog. Since they are about to come out with version 2.7, I wanted to have a conversation with Matt and pick his b...
Taking a cue from Raven's recent post announcing the 10,000 iPhone app milestone, I decided to update some charts from earlier posts on the U.S. iTunes app store. First, the weekly growth in the n...
UPDATE: here’s a short video of the N97 in action last night at dinner. I have a second video that shows the photo viewing, which looks a lot like how the iPhone does it. Nokia just announced the...
Brand Autopsy: BREAKDOWN | Colvin vs. Gladwell Great rundown of two hot books on the concept of deliberate practice. (tags: deliberatepractice bo...
We’ve arrived in Barcelona, Spain for Nokia World, a week where Nokia talks to its top customers. When we got here a Nokia executive met me and bragged that the Internet has no clue what they will ...
Two services that track the iPhone App Store - AppShopper and 148Apps, announced on Saturday that there have been over 10,000 iPhone applications released on the US App Store. The number of curren...
The Ultimate Blogger Writing Guide — Copyblogger Great set of tips here for every writer. (tags: Blogs writing tips strunkandwhite) ...
James Hamilton is one of the smartest and most accomplished engineers I know. He now leads Microsoft's Data Center Futures Team, and has been pushing the opportunities in data center efficiency an...
Zinio, a digital magazine service I became a fan of as I moved to go media green, just got a whole lot more useful with the addition of awesome search and social sharing capabilities. The servi...
If you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what I'm paying attention to. I pass along tidbits of O'Reilly news, interesting reading from mailing lists and...
CJR: Overload! Journalism’s battle for relevance in an age of too much information (tags: Journalism Trends attentioncrash attention Overload m...
Last week, the New York Times wrote about Changes at change.gov: The policy section of the transition site was removed without notice just days after Change.gov went live shortly after the elect...
I am always on the lookout for little mobile gizmos/gadgets that make my life either more productive or more enjoyable. Here are three recent purchases that I am thankful for. Any of them make grea...
When i visited the San Jose Mercury News yesterday, what did we talk about? Advertising and how newspapers were going to make it online. Well, one trend we’re seeing big time is the move to social ...
Let’s say you are a bank, like Washington Mutual, and you’ve been forced to join another bank. What happens to your data center? How do the IT guys left in charge reduce cost? What other things are...
The other day Jesse posted a call for participation for the next Velocity Web Operations Conference. My background is in the enterprise space, so, despite Velocity's web focus, I wondered if ther...
That's a real question, not a rhetorical one. In a Radar post I wrote last week about whether Twitter's user base was hitting a critical inflection point, the first comment was, "How does Twitter...
Kevin Kelly doesn’t need much in the way of introduction to Radar readers. He is a big thinker looking at the intersection of biology, technology and culture. Kevin gave a great High Order Bit...
One of the best VCs in the world is Gary Rieschel. He started Softbank and now is EMD at Qiming Venture Partners. When I visited him in China, he took me into a taxi where he showed me one of the b...
Fuser is something I took too immediately upon seeing it because it helps me with a new pain: keeping up with Twitter, Facebook, and other social media messaging systems. See, hundreds of people ar...
3Tera’s co-founder Bert Armijo had a 10-minute chat with me on Friday about cloud computing and how he sees the enterprise usage of cloud computing evolving and how his firm stacks up. ...
Yesterday I filmed a video about the half-life of conversations. When I started blogging back in 2000 a blog conversation could go for a week or more. Those days are long gone. In this video I cove...
Vholdr is a sports video camera designed for sky diving, skateboarding, surfing, swimming, including on RC helicopters, etc. If you are into sports, you should check out this very cool camera, here...
On Friday Snapily’s founders visited me and showed me a bunch of cool 3D cards. They also made me some new 3D business cards that start conversations everytime I hand one to someone. Here’s the vid...
On Friday I visited Meraki. They build wifi devices for cities and businesses. San Francisco’s wifi was built by them. So was Google’s efforts in Mountain View, CA (Google was an investor). I shot ...
Fred Wilson, a Venture Capitalist based in New York, writes this morning that he’s obsessed with TechMeme and that he’s noticing changes in his obsession (he’s moving more toward Twitter and other...
Mike Arrington, founder of the famous tech blog TechCrunch, hates the new Google search features. They even tell you how to kill the new wiki-style features using GreaseMonkey on Firefox. Mike does...
Just a reminder that the good folks at One Laptop Per Child are running the Get One Give One program again, in association with Amazon. Buy an OLPC XO for $399 and you'll be providing one to a ch...
You probably have read by now about Google SearchWIki, a new feature that lets registered users comment on search results and URLs for one's own use and more importantly to share them with the broa...
Like a lot of people, I was feeling a bit of post-partum letdown after the election. Those of us who were really engaged, following the polls, making calls to undecided voters, arguing out the me...
I’ve been watching a lot of the talk about the US Auto Industry lately and I don’t see many people sticking up for it. That’s partially because the execs in that industry are horribly clueless and ...
With all the news on Friday about Apple's release of iPhone OS 2.2, there was another iPhone news item that got less attention than it deserved. Two young iPhone developers, Danielle Cassley and J...
TypePad this week rolled out a new commenting platform that can be integrated into virtually any blog. They also added profiles. I have incorporated both here. This now brings threaded discussions ...
"Were it not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not be President," declared Arianna Huffington from the stage at Web 2.0 Summit, the day after the election. In "The Web and Politics" session, mo...
My mind is buzzing right now, full of that are all demanding my attention, begging to be written up. I don't have time right now, but I thought I'd write down the headlines, both as a kind of "to...
Belated congratulations to the Newcastle team who won a gold medal the 2008 iGEM contest with a cheap biosensor for pathogens that used a biological implementation of an artificial neural network ...
Last year's Velocity conference was an incredible success. We expected around 400 people and we ended up maxing out the facility with over 600. This year we're moving the conference to a bigger sp...
Yesterday I gave a talk to the Privacy Forum in Auckland, New Zealand, titled Web Meets World: Privacy and the Future of the Cloud. The talk was intended as a scene setter for a discussion with t...
15 Tips for Writing Effective Email | ThinkSimpleNow.com (tags: Email writing Tips) Yahoo! Glue - all you need, a...
Photo Credit: Adapted from Gateway Arch by docdevore For the past five years my browser home page has been set to either Google.com or iGoogle. (I briefly flirted with the New York Times as ...
Big Data is a major theme on the O'Reilly Radar, so we're delighted to welcome guest blogger Joe Hellerstein, a Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley whose research focuses on databases an...
If you haven't seen it, Darren Rowse has a great new blog about Twitter called TwiTip. This week he and his followers interviewed me about how I started using the service, how I Tweet today and wha...
Being Peter Kim: A List of Social Media Marketing Examples The most useful page on the web - and continually updated too. (tags: CaseStudies soci...
Or, My Enterprise is Appliancized, Why Isn't Your Web? I wrote a couple of posts a while back that covered task-optimized hardware. This one was about a system that combined Field Programmable Ga...
Or, My Enterprise is Appliancized, Why Isn't Your Web? I wrote a couple of posts a while back that covered task-optimized hardware. This one was about a system that combined Field Programmable G...
As I wrote in Daddy, Where's Your Phone?, it's time to start thinking of the phone as a first device for accessing web services, not as a way of repurposing content or applications originally desig...
As I wrote in Daddy, Where's Your Phone?, it's time to start thinking of the phone as a first device for accessing web services, not as a way of repurposing content or applications originally desi...
Image Credit: HP 2133 Mini-Note PC Over the last few weeks I have been curiously studying the rise of netbooks - which could become this year's breakout category. As of this writing, six of ...
Over the weekend, TechCrunch postulated that with a frenzy of election-related activity, Twitter hit its hockey stick moment in late October. The theory goes that Twitter saw a 25 percent increase ...
Over the weekend, TechCrunch postulated that with a frenzy of election-related activity, Twitter hit its hockey stick moment in late October. The theory goes that Twitter saw a 25 percent increase...
I met recently with Vic Gundotra, formerly Microsoft's head of platform evangelism, and now VP of Engineering at Google, responsible for all their mobile efforts outside of Android. We were talkin...
I met recently with Vic Gundotra, formerly Microsoft's head of platform evangelism, and now VP of Engineering at Google, responsible for all their mobile efforts outside of Android. We were talki...
Boston.com has a really thought-provoking article entitled Depression 2009: What would it look like?. The subtitle answers: "Lines at the ER, a television boom, emptying suburbs. A catastrophic e...
Boston.com has a really thought-provoking article entitled Depression 2009: What would it look like?. The subtitle answers: "Lines at the ER, a television boom, emptying suburbs. A catastrophic ec...
Conversation Agent: Why Start a Blog and 25 Tips to Make it Work(tags: Blogs tips)Poll: In the US when will tangible media become extinct?"Never, you're crazy Steve" is winning.(tags: anotherview m...
Conversation Agent: Why Start a Blog and 25 Tips to Make it Work (tags: Blogs tips) Poll: In the US when will tan...
Majority of Kids Are Computer Savvy"An overwhelming majority (89%) of all kids age 6-11 in the US spend at least some time doing online activities"(tags: kids stats)Survey: Online Marketers Say Dig...
Majority of Kids Are Computer Savvy "An overwhelming majority (89%) of all kids age 6-11 in the US spend at least some time doing online activities" ...
Rolfe Schewe sent me a heads-up on Twitter tonight that Google Profiles now has added photo streaming. All you need to do is point Google toward Picasa, Flickr or any other photo sharing service th...
Rolfe Schewe sent me a heads-up on Twitter tonight that Google Profiles now has added photo streaming. All you need to do is point Google toward Picasa, Flickr or any other photo sharing service th...
I want to make a bet with you today. By January 2014 I will wager that in the US almost all forms of tangible media will either be in sharp decline or completely extinct. I am not just talking abou...
I want to make a bet with you today. By January 2014 I will wager that in the US almost all forms of tangible media will either be in sharp decline or completely extinct. I am not just talking abou...
Vivek Kundra, the District of Columbia's CTO, isn't just talking about transparent government and participative democracy, he's working hard to make DC's massive data stores transparent and invit...
Vivek Kundra, the District of Columbia's CTO, isn't just talking about transparent government and participative democracy, he's working hard to make DC's massive data stores transparent and inviti...
Just a few minutes ago I was standing in the middle of a sea of cardboard boxes. They include power supplies for your XXXXXXX. Or new laptops made by XXXXXXXX. Or other consumer electronics goodies...
The bailout of the US financial system isn't working. The government's rescue plan has fundamental flaws, including incentives that favor the failed firms, not the country as a whole. New are neede...
The bailout of the US financial system isn't working. The government's rescue plan has fundamental flaws, including incentives that favor the failed firms, not the country as a whole. New are need...
Recently I spoke with Francois Gossieaux of Beeline Labs about the role of online communities in the enterprise. Francois has been evangelizing the learning gained from his recent study “The Trib...
Recently I spoke with Francois Gossieaux of Beeline Labs about the role of online communities in the enterprise. Francois has been evangelizing the learning gained from his recent study “The Tri...
One of my favorite sessions at the recent Web 2.0 summit was Tim's half-hour conversation with Shai Agassi, the CEO of Better Place. Better Place aims to make electric cars widespread ("the electri...
One of my favorite sessions at the recent Web 2.0 summit was Tim's half-hour conversation with Shai Agassi, the CEO of Better Place. Better Place aims to make electric cars widespread ("the electr...
Larry Lessig was busy last week: he was in New Zealand for the LIANZA (Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aoteatora) conference, flew back to California to man the phone banks for ...
Larry Lessig was busy last week: he was in New Zealand for the LIANZA (Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aoteatora) conference, flew back to California to man the phone banks for t...
This morning, via twitter, I came across two contrasting blog posts, one from JP Rangaswami (@jobsworth), and one from Martin Varsavsky (@martinvars), that seemed to me to sum up the very essence ...
This morning, via twitter, I came across two contrasting blog posts, one from JP Rangaswami (@jobsworth), and one from Martin Varsavsky (@martinvars), that seemed to me to sum up the very essence o...
I wrote this piece about a month ago as the Welcome for Make: 16, which will be on the newsstand soon.As I write this, there is panic on Wall Street despite Washington’s $700 billion rescue attemp...
I wrote this piece about a month ago as the Welcome for Make: 16, which will be on the newsstand soon. As I write this, there is panic on Wall Street despite Washington’s $700 billion rescue attem...
The third calendar quarter of 2008 (Apple F4Q08) was a record for iPhone sales. 6.9 million iPhones were sold from July through September, more than the 6.1 million iPhones sold in prior quarters ...
The third calendar quarter of 2008 (Apple F4Q08) was a record for iPhone sales. 6.9 million iPhones were sold from July through September, more than the 6.1 million iPhones sold in prior quarters c...
Just some quick impressions. 1. If you want to compete with your web service and keep copying from happening, do two things: 1. let users upload streaming, live, video. That drives the censors here...
Well, at most of the places I’ve been the past few days my blog (and all blogs on the wordpress.com domain) is blocked so I haven’t been able to post, or even read my blog. But I’ve been posting a ...
I've been searching for a personal backup solution that doesn't suck for, well, pretty much since I got my first computer in the 80's, and I'm still looking.A few years ago I was cleaning out old ...
Companies and social networks | Losing face | The Economist "Communications specialists say the rise of Facebook, MySpace and Twitter make it all the more importa...
Companies and social networks | Losing face | The Economist"Communications specialists say the rise of Facebook, MySpace and Twitter make it all the more important to reiterate online guidelines fr...
If I'm blogging it, is still a tweetup? Either way, we're hosting a little shin dig tonight (Thursday) to celebrate the release of our new report, "Twitter and the Micro-Messaging Revolution: Comm...
At the Web 2.0 summitt, John Doerr mentioned the high number of games available in the iTunes App store, and wondered whether the iPhone's potential as a gaming platform is being underestimated by...
Web 2.0 Summit High Order Bit -Mary_Meeker Get your own at Scribd or explore others: Business Economics marymeeker web2summit Morgan S...
To help make the most of this week's Web 2.0 Summit, I wanted to understand the overall audience gestalt - what are the broad themes, interests, and that are important to the people going to the c...
We’re in San Francisco’s airport right now on our way to Shanghai, China. I’m mostly happy with how the politics came out, but now it’s time to get back to tech. If you unsubscribed or blocked me s...
It would be a stretch to say that Twitter helped Obama win the presidency. But there's no question that the messaging service played an important role in this year's elections. To wit:* Obama sign...
If you're like me you'll be looking at maps and polls and news sites all day long on November 4th. As the polls close and some states go red vs. blue you'll be updating your mental map of the co...
A number of people have responded to my endorsement of Barack Obama with complaints that it is inappropriate for a tech publisher to publish on political issues. While most of the people respondi...
Last week marked an important milestone for the "Web as Platform" as the 1,000 API was added to the ProgrammableWeb registry. John Musser (see: Web2.0 Report) started tracking the first few web s...
I previously looked into the Top 100 Paid apps (henceforth known as the top-sellers) and found that their average price has been declining. In this post, I'll examine which iTunes categories are...
Social ReaderSimilar to Readburner, Social Reader brings you the popular stories which are shared by Google Reader users.(tags: Google GoogleReader RSS socialnews)Get a Good Night???s Sleep with Sl...
Social Reader Similar to Readburner, Social Reader brings you the popular stories which are shared by Google Reader users. (tags: Google GoogleRe...
One of the most interesting DisasterTech projects I've been following is "Decisions for Heroes" led by developer and Irish Coast Guard volunteer Robin Blandford. Decisions is like Basecamp for vol...
