One reason I’ve been overstretched for many months is that I’ve been working since last August as the (unpaid) chief organizer of the second Traveling Geeks expedition to explore cutting-edge technologies in a hotbed of innovation. Last spring it was Israel. This time around: London! On Sunday we launched the TravelingGeeks.com website using WordPress, and […]
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UK startups suss out Silicon Valley
Web Mission: UK startups come to Silicon Valley from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Oli Barrett, co-founder of Web Mission, talks about the group of 20 small startups from the United Kingdom that recently visited Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area, and what the participants took away from the trip. The 7-minute interview was […]
How Twitter could overtake Google
Guest column by J.R. Johnson CEO, Lunch.com Last week I did a simple Google search. I was looking for an old article about “bootstrapping” written by a woman named “Mitra,” so I did a search for “Mitra bootstrapping.” The number one result was from Twitter. It was a page containing a single tweet by Ms. […]
Webinar on social networks and the news
I‘m flying to the venerable Poynter Institute — journalism’s high church — to give an online Webinar titled, Social Networks: Engaging Users With News, part of a 10-week class for newspaper editors being put on by the Knight Digital Media Center. Although the newspaper folks get the Webinar as part of their curriculum, it’s also […]
Free ebook: ‘Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing’
It surprises me how many people don’t know about the fabulous work being done by the Aspen Institute, the 59-year-old international nonprofit organization that works on environmental and economic concerns. It’s a sort of constantly evolving think tank perfectly suited for the new economy: The Aspen Institute convenes roundtables — in Aspen, Colo., Washington, DC, […]