Zombiewood Highlights Undead Side Of Los Angeles, Coming To iOS And Android...
Halloween is almost here, and that means you should expect a rise in zombie games. If you need proof, look no further than Gameloft's Zombiewood, which shambles its way to iOS and Android October 31....
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NATE SILVER: Obama Is Collapsing
Obama's odds of winning the re-election have collapsed since the first presidential debate, according to three separate measures: Nate Silver's aggregate poll forecast Intrade's prediction market...
View ArticleAnyone Saying He Can Run Two Companies Is Lying To You Or Himself
Can we finally stop pretending someone can run two companies if they just work hard enough or are brilliant enough? I’m looking at you Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Twitter investor Peter...
View ArticleWhy Blockbuster's Streaming Collapse Won't Hurt Netflix
After backing out of plans to compete with Netflix, Blockbuster is all but done. That's not great news for the streaming-video space, and Netflix is in a rough spot. But Blockbuster's latest stumble...
View ArticleDigital First Isn't An Option For Media — It's The Only Way Forward
Everywhere you look in the traditional media industry, you can see signs of turmoil and disruption: to take just a few recent examples, the New York Times is fighting with its union over cutbacks to...
View ArticleHave Health 2.0 Companies Jumped the Shark?
Health 2.0 companies have jumped the shark, although the health care transformation itself has barely begun. How can this be? It’s easy. The money found the space. Over a billion dollars were invested...
View ArticleUSV Identity Talent Audition
As we have blogged about, we are working internally to update our web presence. We've hired a part time software engineer who is helping us build something that we hope will better leverage the...
View ArticleRegulatory hacks
A common way to think of business regulations is by analogy to sports: the rules are specified up front, and the players follow the rules. But real regulations don’t work that way. Businesses follow...
View ArticleScoot Networks - A New Way To Get Around SF
When I come to SF, I generally don't rent a car. I've used cabs and more recently Uber to get around. But many times I just walk from meeting to meeting around SOMA where most of the tech companies...
View ArticleTwitter Hashtag Chats Are Ruining My Life. Please Stop
Having a conversation on Twitter is like gabbing in the front row of a rock concert. You have to yell to be heard, and that annoys everyone around you. Yet for some reason, people engage in hashtag...
View ArticleIs Facebook The New Philip Morris?
As if you didn’t know it already, there’s now yet another psych study detailing the addictive qualities of Facebook. Researchers from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business recently...
View ArticleHulu Struggles To Survive The Influence Of Its Parent Companies
It's an unseasonably warm summer day, and Jason Kilar is "in the zone," as he puts it, buzzing around his Santa Monica, California, headquarters, putting the final touches on a massive redesign of...
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Obama Is Regulating The Tech Industry Way Too Much Because He Believes He...
For decades, Silicon Valley has been a mecca for dreamers. People come to the Valley to turn science fiction into reality in ways that transform consumers’ lives. Turn-by-turn directions on our...
View ArticleKauffman Sketchbook on Startup Communities
I just finished up at Thinc Iowa and am heading to San Francisco for a few meetings tomorrow. I had an awesome time in the last 24 hours, especially last night hanging out for three hours with 20 or...
View ArticleWhy Google Is Right And The Authors Guild Is Wrong On Book Scanning
The seven-year fight between authors and publishers over Google’s attempt to scan and digitize millions of books as part of its Google Library Project is almost certainly one of the longest-running...
View ArticleHow Apple's Foxconn Problem Is Like Nike's Sweatshop Problem, And Why The...
In recent weeks, we’ve heard news of riots and strikes at some Foxconn plants in China that are making Apple products. Earlier in the year, the New York Times ran a massive feature story detailing...
View ArticleI Won’t Buy an iPad Mini—But Parents and Schools Will
Until recently, I was an iPad Mini denier. A tablet with a 7- or 8-inch screen feels like the worst of both worlds to me—too big for simple e-reading, too small for serious Web browsing, games, and...
View ArticleFeature Friday: Zemanta Thumbnails
At the tail end of yesterday's blog post was this set of related posts: A few folks asked me what was generating that set of links so I figured I would blog about it today. I have used Zemanta's...
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Fieldrunners 2: Earn More Coins- Cheats, Tips And Tricks
Fieldrunners 2 is one of the trickiest, most engrossing tower defense games for iPhone and iPad, filled with a variety of enemies that'll stop at nothing to breach your defenses. That said, it's in...
View ArticleThe Simpsons: Tapped Out Treehouse of Horror XXIII Trailer
Electronic Arts updated The Simpsons: Tapped Out with Halloween content a couple of weeks ago, and the popular Treehouse of Horror XXIII episode helped thousands of players score 10 free donuts (hint:...
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