Curation Can Create A Snapshot Of Our Digital Lives. Posted by Tom Foremski - March 17, 2011 As our lives become increasingly digital curation tools can provide a good way to document our activities, capturing a snapshot of key events and moments.
For example, the South by South West Interactive conference that is winding down in Austin, Texas attracted a lot of people, sharing lots of ideas, conversations, product launches, and more. Codenamed “Project Dragon,” more rumors swirl of Yahoo! selling Delicious. Kevin Covert: Preparing For A Silicon Valley M&A Boom In New Media.
Posted by Tom Foremski - March 17, 2011 Investment banker Kevin Covert is increasing staff at his company, Covert & Co, up to prepare for an M&A bonanza in Silicon Valley.
He says that the conditions are great for M&A especially in new media. Silicon Valley 50. Twitter, Zynga: They Should Move To France. Howard rheingold's. Why Curation Is Just as Important as Creation [OPINION] The Google Loophole Has Become The Facebook/Twitter Loophole. Your Attention is Cheap: $2.50/per Hour. Our attention is the only valuable resource we personally produce without training.
It is in short supply and everyone wants some of it. Since its production is severely limited while everything else is becoming abundant, this scarcity is the foundation of the new economy. Get Involved. New wave of startups lifts San Francisco’s hopes Therese Poletti's Tech Tales. By Therese Poletti, MarketWatch Therese Poletti/MarketWatch The old Furniture Mart complex, in a blighted stretch of Market Street, is called a candidate to attract Twitter and other growing tech firms.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — San Francisco’s commercial real estate market is seeing its first positive occupancy trends in three years. The key factor? A new boom in tech startups. Indeed, finding large swaths of office space is starting to get tougher in the trendy South of Market area, which also played host to many startups during the dot-com boom and bust a decade ago. Information is Beautiful on the books everyone must read. 4chan founder to Facebook CEO: you’re doing it wrong. At South by Southwest Interactive 2011 in Austin, Texas this week, 4chan founder Christopher Poole (also known as "moot") took the stage to talk about various online issues.
Brands As Publishers – The Debate Continues. At my favorite panel thus far at SXSW “Brave New World: Debating Brands’ Role as Publishers,” moderator Tom Ashbrook of NPR set the stage for a tense discussion, warning the front row that “after the prep call for this panel I thought about getting you splatter guards.”
With marketing budgets and traditional journalism shrinking, it’s no surprise that the value of brands taking an editorial approach to building a content strategy – becoming both a publisher of original content and curator of news and stories across the Web – is hotly discussed. Is curation counterfeiting? Can consumers distinguish branded content from true “objective” journalism? All themes that got pulses racing today. Google's 15 Biggest Acquisitions And What Happened To Them. T Magazine - Men's Fashion Issue - Spring 2011. Microsoft Considered Server Farms In Iceland.
Posted by Tom Foremski - March 14, 2011 I've been intrigued by Iceland and its large reserves of geothermal energy, which is essentially zero-carbon power; and by its location: mid-Atlantic between North AMerica and Europe.
You'd think this would make it a great location for large server farms, especially since it now has high speed trans-Atlantic data links. I went to an interesting media dinner last week with Microsoft scientists (full report coming) working on data center issues. They said that Microsoft did consider building a data center in Iceland but rejected it.
The main reason was that Microsoft decided to locate its data centers no more than 500 miles from large population centers because of latency issues. SM Pioneers: Tom Foremski, Silicon Valley Watcher. Last year, Tom pioneered a new path again–not by making a new career change, but by sharing a profound observation–that social media now requires every company to become a media company.
Nothing changes everything, but that thought, it seems to me will change a great deal. Tom was born in Salzburg, Austria the son of Polish parents. He suffered from whooping cough as a child, which folklore says, is cured by crossing a body of water. His parents a small manufacturing operator and a school teacher moved him and his two younger brothers to the UK, where Tom’s sickness disappear. He was raised in the UK. He arrived in San Francisco in 1984, becoming one of the first European journalists to cover Silicon Valley. In 1999 he joined the Financial Times’ San Francisco bureau full time to help expand the newspaper’s coverage of US technology markets and Silicon Valley. Books Everyone Should Read. Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why: Plug & Play Expands Its Overseas Reach. The Plug and Play Tech Center is expanding its overseas reach.
Next up: building stronger ties with some of America’s top universities. Saeed Amidi, chief executive of the Silicon Valley incubator, said that last year, 60 companies from Europe, Asia and other parts of the world spent three months at Plug and Play’s facilities, as did 15 from Canada. This year the number should grow to 120. In 2009, the incubator invited 20 to 25 overseas companies into the program. The State of the News Media 2011. Is This The World's Oldest Computer? Posted by Guest Writer - March 14, 2011 By Intel Free Press.
O'Brien: Search undergoing biggest disruption since the dawn of Google. Facing criticism over the quality of search results, Google recently tweaked its famously secretive algorithm to weed out spam sites and so-called "content farms. " For all the attention this issue got, however, it's only one of many search-related challenges confronting the company. That's because search is undergoing its most rapid disruption since the dawn of the Google era. From the perspective of Amit Singhal, a Google fellow who oversees search quality, the pace and scope of changes to search have been accelerating for five years now. In that time, Google unveiled what he called three "paradigm shifts" to its search engine by adding instant search, real-time search, and personalized search. But the scale and pace of those changes is nothing compared to the changes to come.
Why the Web may unleash the largest construction boom in history. There are many business processes that can be made more efficient and can be engineered to take up less space.