Theft v. sharing
Surely New York Times columnist and former editor Bill Keller understands how specious his comparison between Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg is. What’s the difference, I asked a tech-writer...
View ArticleDoes Apple's Use Of Famous Stars In Ads Show Weakness?
Last night, while watching LeBron James attempt to finally justify the size of his head, John Malkovich appeared on my TV to remind me of Siri's great wit. It's a pleasant ad. Yet something suddenly...
View ArticleWhy Facebook Has Won The Mobile Photo War
From the early days of the commercial web, one thing has been clear: photos are big on the Internet. All of us love photos. We love taking photos. We love sharing photos. They are the basic unit of...
View ArticleHow To Fix The Gender Gap In Technology
The United States has produced viable female presidential candidates, women athletes who command millions of dollars in endorsements, and the first female Nobel economist. Yet there is still no female...
View ArticleToo Young For Facebook: Why The Social Network’s Plan To Sign Up Preteens Is...
Are you ready for your second- or third-grader to sign up for Facebook? The company floated that idea this week, telling the Wall Street Journal that it is considering allowing kids under the age of...
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BUSTED: Half Of These Companies' Twitter Followers Are Bots
Up to 46 percent of Twitter followers of companies with active profiles could be generated by robots, or bots, a study by Marco Camisani Calzolari, a corporate communication and digital languages...
View ArticleDiscovery is the problem in gaming
In 2009 I wrote a guest post at Industry Gamers about why social gaming is so attractive to investors, where I talked about the three key elements oin gaming: Development, Distribution and Discovery....
View ArticleBook: Kill Decision
If quadcopters can play a James Bond song, it’s not far fetched that tens of thousands of them could become an autonomously controlled weapon controlled by software that simulates the intelligence of...
View ArticleMis-labeled bubble: it's the structure, not the valuation
I’ve lived through bubbles. Lots of them. They are powerful, make a few extremely rich and many wondering what happened to their pocketbooks and their pride. What I’ve witnessed in the seed stage...
View ArticleWhither usv.com?
Back in 2004, when my partner Brad and I started Union Square Ventures (USV), we decided to make our website a blog. It took us a year to do a final close on our first fund, so when we had finally...
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Female Oracle Employee Accused Of Offering Sex For Government Favors In...
A female employee of computer giant Oracle's Singapore unit was on Tuesday named in a sex-for-favors corruption case involving the former head of the city-state's anti-narcotics agency. Ng Boon Gay,...
View ArticleThe most important provision of the JOBS Act
When the JOBS Act was past several months ago there was much fanfare about the key provisions. Especially the raising of the number of investors that a private company could accumulate before being...
View ArticleStartup Colorado: Looking Back on the First Year
Last week Startup Colorado hosted the Startup America Regional Summit which was a gathering of the leadership of over 25 different Startup State efforts under the structure of the Startup America...
View ArticleWho Uses Twitter Anyway?
The days of “I don’t get Twitter” may be over. Tweets are now a form of self-expression among connected consumers, and it is this connected generation that continues to grow in size and influence year...
View ArticleHere's Why Apple Didn't Open Up Apple TV
There were plenty of rumors ahead of today’s WWDC keynote that Apple would announce some kind of update to its Apple TV platform. And while pundits have long been speculating about the launch of a...
View ArticleCrwodfunding Will Bring Out The Crooks And The Con Men
Legal crowdfunding is coming, as I explained in the first part of this series. Thanks to the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, investors big and small will soon have new ways to buy shares...
View ArticleApple's Stash Of Credit Card Numbers Is Its Secret Weapon
That little iPhone in your pocket is perfectly positioned to become a clone of the credit cards in your wallet or purse. And Apple can thank the music purchases on the iPod if and when it pulls this...
View ArticleHow Social Media Will Save—Not Kill—The Television Ad
David Griner doesn’t think television advertising needs to be saved from the Internet and social media. On the contrary, Griner says television ads need to be saved from themselves. “I personally find...
View ArticleApple’s Gorgeous iOS 6 Product Page.
So much has already been written about Apple’s WWDC and their iOS 6 announcement… and I too will pile on a couple short (and late) reactions. This one really has nothing to do with the hardware or the...
View ArticleApple To Kill Ping, Add Facebook
(image) I know you all know that Apple has cut a deal to integrate Facebook, because of the relentless coverage of Apple’s developer conference this week. However, I just saw this story from ATD:...
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