Donglegate: Why the Tech Community Hates Feminists
It was the tweet that launched a thousand trolls. When Adria Richards tweeted out a picture of two men she overheard making sexual jokes behind her during open-source conference PyCon, the internet...
View ArticlePlease, Apple, No iWatch. It Already Costs Too Much To Be A Fanboy
The happy greeters at the Apple Store always make me feel welcome, though never special. Maybe they should. After all, if I start to add it all up, I spend a fortune on Apple gear. I suspect I'm not...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: You Are What You Tweet
Ricky Van Veen says what you share defines who you are. So I am sharing this talk with all of you.Read more posts on A VC »Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this...
View ArticleIf I Had Glass
The Verge has a post up that says the winners of the If I Had Glass campaign are largely Twitter users with big follower counts and links to a list of all winners. Sadly, my twitter account is not on...
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ANALYSTS: 2013 May Be The Year For Smartwatches
Amid much speculation on the future of the "smartwatch," the consensus is growing: the time is right.In recent weeks, reports have surfaced about plans for smartwatches from tech giants Apple, Samsung...
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Why China's Biggest Threat To Facebook May Start Charging A Fee
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Users of Tencent Holdings' hugely popular mobile chatting application may have to pay fees in future to satisfy China's three mobile telecom operators, Chinese media quoted a...
View ArticleWhen Things Don't Work Out
I have said many times that early stage VC is a lot like baseball, if you get a hit one out of every three times, you are headed to the hall of fame. And if I look back over my career, and also over...
View ArticleFeature Friday: Quotes
I am into quotes. Always have been. And one of my favorite things about Tumblr is they have a specific post type for quotes:I find quotes around the web (and mobile) and post them to Tumblr (often with...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: You Are What You Tweet
Ricky Van Veen says what you share defines who you are. So I am sharing this talk with all of you.Read more posts on A VC »Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this...
View ArticleIf I Had Glass
The Verge has a post up that says the winners of the If I Had Glass campaign are largely Twitter users with big follower counts and links to a list of all winners. Sadly, my twitter account is not on...
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What It's Like To Share A Stranger's Home
ALL WE KNOW of Maya S. is the back of her head. Her thumbnail indicates she is blonde with a bun and a floral-print shirt. There are no photographs of her face in the apartment even though it’s...
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Anyone Who Thinks Apple Will Rule The World Forever Should Look At This Picture
Know what this is?It's one of the first mass-produced mini-computers--the PDP 8. The PDP-8 was made by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1965.It cost $18,000.It was much less powerful and vastly harder...
View ArticleAnnouncing The "Good Things Come to Those Who Code" Campaign
The AVC community hasn't done a DonorsChoose campaign since the Gotham Gal and I turned 50 and we raised something like $56k in the summer of 2011. I've been looking for a way to beat that and it has...
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Millions Of Teens Are Skipping Facebook And Using A New Breed Of Flirty...
SAN FRANCISCO, March 31 (Reuters) - Create personal profiles. Build networks of friends. Share photos, videos and music.That might sound precisely like Facebook, but hundreds of millions of tech-savvy...
View ArticleA Facebook Phone: Is This The Final Brick In The Social Network’s Walled Garden?
Looks like it’s that time of year again — the time when rumors of a “Facebook phone” pop up like tulips after a spring rainstorm. This time around, it was a cryptic announcement from the social network...
View ArticleWhat To Do With Microsoft? Chop Up The Borg — Now
After a decade of missing lots of key growth opportunities and finding itself outpaced by competitors taking away market share, Microsoft’s board should have felt compelled to investigate much earlier...
View ArticleCoffee & Empathy: Why Data Without A Soul Is Meaningless
While on my way back from New York, for some odd reason I started playing around with Foursquare and plotting my check-in data using a handful of apps. Very quickly I realized two things: the amount of...
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Apple Reportedly Designed The IPhone 5 Before Death Of Steve Jobs
Apple's next two iPhones had already been designed before Steve Jobs died in October 2011, according to comments apparently made by a liaison officer for the company last week.At a meeting with the San...
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Apple, Google, And Facebook Are Building Massive, Perk-Laden Headquarters
New Silicon Valley headquarters offer more perks than ever to recruit, retain talentCUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple's ring-shaped, gleaming "Spaceship Headquarters" will include a world class auditorium...
View ArticleFacebook Phone: Maybe, Just Maybe, Not A Completely Moronic Idea
Rumors abound about the so-called "Facebook phone," which the social network appears likely to unveil later this week, apparently as a fork of Android that will favor Facebook heavily in the overall...
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