How To: Escape From Google’s Clutches, Once and For All

Interesting article from GIZMODO from my friend Marshall Sponder (via GoogleBuzz)
So you’re fed up with Google, and you’ve got a litany of reasons. You don’t even have to explain—I’m just here to help you crawl out from under the shadow of the big G, step by step.
You don’t have to be ready to commit to [...]

FourSquare: What is the deal?

Many of you have noticed on my Facebook page that I have become somewhat of a FourSquare fan…but then you ask yourself…what the heck is FourSquare?
foursquare is a cross between a friend-finder, a social city-guide and a game that rewards you for doing interesting things. We aim to build things to not only help [...]

Content Is the Salt and Pepper. Social Media is the Steak.

Thanks to my friend Karen Levine for a nice write up on our event last night with Gary Vaynerchuk
I’ve just walked home in my doctor-disapproved pointy toed boots from a Bill Sobel event at the Samsung Experience featuring Gary Vaynerchuk, aka Gary V.
I didn’t start taking notes until 15 minutes into the talk because I [...]

What’s the Buzz with Google Buzz

From Huffington Post
Posted: February 15, 2010
What a Difference a Week Makes: Google Buzz Arrives With a Bang
by Arianna Huffington
One of my favorite things about working in the news business is you never know where the day is going to take you. You wake up, and Evan Bayh is the farthest thing from your mind. Next [...]

Comcast becoming an X-word: XFinity

from the Chicago Tribune
By Kristin Samuelson, Tribune reporter
February 9, 2010
Guess it wasn’t so Comcastic after all.
Comcast, the nation’s largest cable service, is rebranding itself as XFinity, in an effort the company suggests is designed to produce a full image overhaul.
The brand change starts rolling out Friday in Chicago and 10 other markets, including Boston, Philadelphia, [...]

Bill Gates: iPad Critic?

from BNET
Bill Gates Joins the iPad’s Army of Critics. Steve Jobs Couldn’t Care Less.
By Brent Schlender
February 10th, 2010
With the sudden ridicule of Steve Jobs’ new do-everything media player, Apple has abruptly become a ripe target for those who would like to take it down a notch. The tsunami of criticism is probably excessive, but it [...]

Google to offer high speed broadband: in nyc?

I received the following email from my friend Richard Reisman
I am sending this to MITEF-NYC board and to NYTech, NYEW, and various others who might have the resources/networks to respond to the RFI to get this service in trial in NYC.
This seems like something where a multi-group effort is desirable, and maybe an NYC [...]

The Secret Behind the iPad’s Low Price

Wondering how Apple can sell the iPad for under $500?
from BNETApple iPad Price, Features Say “ARM” All Over
By Chris Dannen | Jan 27, 2010
Here’s what you need to know about the iPad: it’s a 9.7-inch touchscreen pad that’s half an inch thick, sports WiFi and 3G, and runs apps, reads e-books and lasts 10 hours [...]

Industry Execs Weigh In on iPad

Interesting article from Brandweek
by Mike Shields and Lucia Moses, Mediaweek
Traditional media — notably representatives from the reeling print world — were conspicuously absent from Apple’s elaborate rollout of the iPad, its highl -anticipated tablet computing device.
But publishers, advertisers and analysts remain optimistic that magazines and newspapers will ultimately receive a readership and business boost from [...]

iWork Killer App For iPad?

Is iWork the killer app for the iPad or will the iPad ultimately kill iWork? In the past iWork has been non-starter: positioned between Microsoft’s over-featured Office suite and Oracle’s free OpenOffice. Child of ClarisWorks, it never quite caught caught on. I once spent a whole day trying to do a keyframe animation in Keynote [...]

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