So I’m going to start a rumor here: I think, before the year is out, that Google is going to try to buy Sprint.
May 23, 2011
Wuz LinkedIn Robbed?
There’s a provocative column by Joe Nocera in today’s NYTimes about LinkedIn’s IPO last week. Nocera thinks that the investment banks Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch — which LinkedIn hired to take it public — essentially stole hundreds of millions of dollars that should have gone to LinkedIn’s treasury.
Continue reading... June 25, 2010
Hands-on: Motorola Droid X smartphone is a win for Android – Computerworld
My first article for public consumption in quite a while, and a return to old stomping grounds: A review of the upcoming Droid X mobile phone. Overall a nice piece of hardware. I suspect I’ll like Android more as I get used to it.
Continue reading... April 23, 2010
Auto-captioning YouTube
I somehow missed the news that YouTube is now automatically captioning all videos in English. That’s awesome news for the accessibility crowd. It’s a little problematic for the content industry. Think about it.
Continue reading... March 26, 2010
New Bing Coming
Microsoft’s Bing search engine will be rolling out UI changes starting in the next few days. Since its launch about a year ago, Bing has been innovating mostly on its interface, and these changes continue that mission. The emphasis for the update will be on providing more context — including real-time feeds — and visual […]
Continue reading... March 22, 2010
Kawasaki on Management
I’ve been around the Macintosh world since about 1985, so I’m real familiar with Guy Kawasaki. Guy was the software evangelist for the Mac — the guy who went around persuading software developers to write for this unusual and innovative computer. In the intervening years, he wrote a couple of books about what became known […]
Continue reading... March 22, 2010
TVLand
Film crews are not uncommon in my neighborhood. “Gossip Girl,” in particular, has been coming around a few times a year. But this week, the nabe’s parking will be disrupted for two productions: the CBS drama “The Good Wife” (which is set in, ummm, Chicago) and the FX show “Damages.”
Continue reading... March 19, 2010
Visualizing Tufte
I spent the day yesterday in a ballroom listening to data visualization guru Edward Tufte. Given my increasingly hummingbird-like attention span, a full day of concentrated focus was as welcome as it was unusual. A good time, and well worth the money. Perhaps the coolest things of the day were when he produced a copy […]
Continue reading... December 7, 2009
Google Real-Time Search: some questions
Google today announced its inevitable reach into real-time search, instantly adding results from Twitter, FriendFeed and MySpace. As cool and useful as this may be, I’ve got a couple of questions about it.
Continue reading... September 16, 2009
Mary Travers, RIP
As part of the New York Choral Society, I was fortunate to have performed with Mary Travers (and Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey) a couple of dozen times in the late ’80s and early ’90s. I did a week on Broadway, a PBS special that ran forever during Pledge Weeks, a Donahue show, and more than a couple of performances in Carnegie Hall. They are some of my fondest memories.
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