Commencement 2.0
Last week, Yale University released details associated with its forthcoming 312th commencement. For this upcoming event, Yale will, for the first time, provide a dedicated mobile friendly commencement...
View ArticleiPad App Aims to Help Real Estate Agents Drive Sales
Real estate professionals are tech-savvy on an individual basis—4,500 of them are already using iPhone’s Passbook stock app to replace the business card—but they often struggle to find technology that...
View ArticleLinkedIn Wants Prostitutes To Stop Using Its Site (LNKD)
LinkedIn just rolled out a number of changes to its privacy policy and user agreement, informing its more than 200 million members through a notice on the professional network's website.Most of the...
View ArticleScrapbook
Apartamento, a magazine out of Spain, but written in English, is one of my favorite magazines. The latest issue just arrived in the mail today and I am happily listening to YLE and leafing through it....
View ArticleLife before meaning
“We must love life before loving its meaning. We must love life, and some meaning may grow from that love. But “if love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.”– From Dostoevsky (second hand,...
View ArticleNCWIT Award
A couple weeks ago, I was honored with an award from the NCWIT. the National Center for Women and Information Technology. Unfortunately, I had a bad flu and couldn’t accept the award in person. So my...
View ArticleDance, animation, Ron Popeil
All that ukulele playing finally paid off when I went to the Ukulele Rebellion last weekend after my clay class at Sharon Arts Center. So good.I have some thinky blog posts coming, just haven’t had the...
View ArticleConversation in a cab in San Francisco
Cab Driver: So what are your plans this weekend?Me: Dunno. Go hiking?Cab Driver: No, I mean for the game.Me: What game?Cab Driver: Superbowl?!Me: Oh wow. Who’s playing?Cab Driver: Where do you live?Me:...
View ArticleDoping, Adderall and The Meritocracy
Soon after the Lance Armstrong doping scandals emerged last year, I was talking to friends about the prevalence of doping, and my shock. “How could it be true?” I asked. And my friends said, “Are you...
View ArticleThe Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
This is an early documentary by Werner Herzog, which my friend Ben Gleitzman told me about. It is marvelous, and you should watch it. Ecstasy is almost never discussed anymore, but leaving the earth is...
View ArticleThe only things
The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.– Jean Renoir, as recalled by James Salter, in the New Yorker.Read more posts on caterina.net »Please follow SAI on Twitter and...
View ArticleLosing The Team
Boards can be pretty patient. They can put up with a lot of failings, particularly in the early days of a startup when the product isn't where it needs to be. But one thing a Board cannot tolerate is...
View ArticleCalifornia Fuel Cell Startup Has Raised $1.1 Billion
Silicon Valley venture capitalists like to crow that it’s now cheaper than ever to establish a startup company. While that may be true for internet firms, the amount of money required to fund a Silicon...
View ArticleThanks To Slowing Apple, Sharp Is A Total Mess And Its Looking To Samsung For...
(Reuters) - Japanese display maker Sharp Corp, a supplier to Apple Inc, will aim to boost sales to the iPhone maker's rival Samsung Electronics Co under a three-year rehabilitation roadmap after...
View ArticleA place belongs forever
“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”—Joan...
View ArticleThe One Word That Shouldn’t Exist in an Entrepreneur’s Vocabulary
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View ArticleA Day Late And A Dollar Short
So RIM has decided that it is time to make Blackberry Messenger (BBM) cross platform. They announced yesterday that by this summer BBM will be available on iOS and Android.The time to do this was in...
View ArticleYahoo Planning A Big Marketing Blitz To Win Younger Users
SAN FRANCISCO, May 14 (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc plans to ramp up advertising and marketing efforts as it seeks to break its reliance on an "aging demographic" and become more relevant among young adults,...
View ArticleAirware: An operating system for drones
I’m excited to announce that Andreessen Horowitz, along with Google Ventures, is investing $10.7M in Airware, a startup that makes operating systems for flying robots, popularly known as drones.Drones...
View ArticleAmazon Has A $300 Billion Opportunity, But It's Going To Need A Lot Of Help...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As Amazon.com Inc seeks to transform itself into a leading provider of technology to the world's largest corporations, it's discovering that it needs help.The online retailer,...
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