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Portfolios from Pathbrite help you demonstrate lifelong learning
You've learned something, but how do you demonstrate that to other people? Pathbrite's portfolios are a way. Lets you collect, track, and share your learning achievements. https://pathbrite.com Here Pathbrite's CEO, Heather Hiles, explains why you need...
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Five big trends and Windows 8: what Menlo Ventures is seeing in tech world
Menlo Ventures is one of the most important venture capital firms in the world. They are behind many of the world's best companies and services. Shawn Carolan and Mark Siegel, managing directors, have an hour-long talk with me about trends, how they...
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Is Lightt an Instagram killer? It sure is fun!
Lightt looks a bit like Instagram. When I first was shown it I asked "why do we need yet another photo app for our smartphones?" But then I saw what it can do. Capture frames that look like videos. Scrub through them instantly. And have them mixed with...
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Siri's contextual sister, Tempo, blows away Apple's iPhone calendar
SRI has another winner. This is the lab that brought the world the mouse, HDTV, and Siri. Now they've come up with a contextual calendar called Tempo. This calendar blows away Apple's own calendar (and Google's, for that matter). Here you'll hear how...
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955Dreams releases cool new local event app
Looking for a fun event soon, check out Applauze, a new iPhone app that shipped today. It has one of the best UI's I've seen and lets you find and buy interesting events near you. Here I visit the development team and talk with them about what went into...
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I still remember the first day I met Aaron Levie,...
I still remember the first day I met Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.net. I thought "this guy is gonna get fired fast." Why? He was a goofball. Still is. Last year I interviewed him in front of UC Berkeley Cal business students (another school that wouldn't let...
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Interesting. On his profile Mark Zuckerberg is...
Interesting. On his profile Mark Zuckerberg is debating people about immigration, interesting to see this. Totally with Mark, too. It's amazing how bad our immigration policy is. Either for the really poor, like the Mexicans that work in the fields across...
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Google Glass session at LeWeb. I was mobbed after...
Google Glass session at LeWeb. I was mobbed after the session yesterday by people wanting to try it out. Thanks Loic Le Meur and Geraldine LeMeur and team for yet another awesome event. At Rackspace Hosting we can't wait to see what developers do next...
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EXCLUSIVE FIRST: Augmented reality is coming back:...
EXCLUSIVE FIRST: Augmented reality is coming back: Dekko shows you how: MIND BLOWING! Look at how Dekko does augmented reality and turned a simple table into a full-on virtual game. Coming this summer. Must watch to see the future! Learn more: http://www.dekko.co/...
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Business Insider wrote they were blown away by...
Business Insider wrote they were blown away by this startup. http://www.businessinsider.com/were-blown-away-this-startup-could-literally-change-the-entire-software-industry-2012-3 I can't disagree. This startup, Numecent, has some pretty mind-blowing...
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The real privacy problems with Google's Glass.
The real privacy problems with Google's Glass. Great interview of me by Bryan Kramer. We cover a LOT of "Age of Context" ground (I'm working on a book with Shel Israel of that title), but this gets me to cover a bit that most other privacy advocates haven't...
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Koding: Helping developers code together
You might think of Koding as a sort of social network for programmers but if you stopped there you'd be wrong. You can build entire apps inside Koding. It's growing fast and after getting a demo here you can see why. It helps you share resources, ideas,...
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VMware announces Horizon App Manager
Last year at VMworld, VMware previewed Project Horizon, its cloud-based management service, which is part of an effort to help companies embrace the cloud and the wealth of cloud applications currently available on the market. Today, VMware is announcing...
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PluralSight announces acquisition of TrainSignal for $23.6 million
Here Aaron Skonnard, founder of Pluralsight, a white hot training company, announced the acquisition of TrainSignal for $23.6 million. I talk to Aaron about that and also about the online training space. Pluralsight helps people learn to program in a...
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PARC Innovation Tour, Part V: In database privacy
How can you send a database, or give access to it, while making sure that different people can only see data that they are supposed to? Think of a spreadsheet. What if person A is only supposed to be able to see Rows A, C, and E, while person B is supposed...
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SRI, home of Siri, shows us a new way to work
On our tour through Silicon Valley's top research lab, SRI, we visited the computer science lab where SRI is inventing a new way to work, called "Bright." It watches you at every step of the way. Learn more on the work being done at SRI: http://www.sri.com/research-development/biomedical-sciences-health On...
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I am at an offsite in Jackson Hole. What do we do?...
I am at an offsite in Jackson Hole. What do we do? Yossi Vardi and John Maeda (head of RISD, famous design school) and I are showing each other fun stuff, like this lipdub that Grand Rapids did to promote the town. What's funny is neither is on Facebook....
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The bad-ass Silicon Valley VC talks context and lack of innovation in Silicon Valley
Chamath Palihapitiya impressed me last year with his straight-forward no bull approach. Plus he's invested in companies like box.net and AirBnB so he has a good eye for great entrepreneurs. But lately I've heard that his VC Fund, https://angel.co/the-social-capital-partnership,...
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Facebook's new energy efficient data center
Cloud technologies power some of Internet's most well-known sites—Picasa, Gmail, Facebook and Zynga, just to name a few—and cloud companies are striving to make the computer processing behind these sites as energy efficient as possible. With that in mind,...
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Big Live: fostering real-time interactions around content
Producers of online video content are always looking for ways to get their audience more involved and more engaged beyond just leaving comments. By leveraging the social network, Big Live is providing a solution that fosters real-time discussion among...
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Adobe's Dreamweaver CS5.5
Adobe helped spark the desktop publishing revolution in the mid 1980s with its PostScript page description language used in Apple LaserWriter printers. Today, publishing is vastly different than it was 25 years ago, as consumers are accessing content...
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Formspring: changing social conversations on the web
The phrase 'rapid growth' doesn't quite do justice to the explosion in usage that a new social site called Formspring has enjoyed since it launched just 18 months ago. With over 24 million user accounts and 3.5 million unique visitors every day, it is...
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LiveShare: instant photo sharing from Cooliris
Photo sharing on the web has been around for years. Sites like Flickr, Facebook, Picasa and Snapfish provide a wealth of options for uploading images and making them available to friends and family. None of these sites, however, allows instant, real-time...
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Transvideo: using video to aid product launch
More and more companies are using short videos (typically under 90 seconds) that they can post on their web sites to introduce their products or services. Transvideo Studios, along with its in house creative team called Picturelab, has been making videos...
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Nanosys
One of the many fronts on which device manufacturers battle one another is screen resolution—each gadget maker vying to have the highest quality image display among its competitors. Typically an increase in image quality corresponds to an increase in...