Just a quick word about a website and service I had heard about but never really looked into until I sat next to Esther Dyson at the Aspen Institute roundtable I attended last week. Esther — who’s on the company’s board, an investor and a customer — gave me and VC Arjun Gupta a demo […]
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Back from the cloud computing roundtable
I’m back from the Aspen Institute, where last week we held a roundtable on "Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing: Implications for Social Interaction, Governance and Money." Participants included John Seely Brown, Esther Dyson, Bill Coleman, Mark Bregman, Jeff Dachis, Ann Winblad, Mark Rotenberg, Arjun Gupta, Arturo Artom and lots of other smart folks. […]
Silicon Valley’s Top 50 Web Influencers
I’ve been in Aspen all week so missed this announcement from a couple of days ago: NowPublic announces Silicon Valley "MostPublic Index" Identifies the Web’s 50 most influential people in Silicon Valley NowPublic, the world’s largest participatory news network, today announced its second MostPublic Index, identifying the 50 most influential individuals in Silicon Valley/San Francisco. […]
Heading to the Aspen Institute
I’m flying to Aspen, Colo., early tomorrow to take part in another Aspen Institute roundtable. This one is on Cloud Computing: Implications for Social Interaction, Governance and Money. Should be geeky but interesting as hell. Too bad I missed the Dalai Lama by three days. As you might imagine, blogging will be light this week.
Visualizing text and data with Many Eyes
Visualization tool: ManyEyes from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At the Future of Civic Media conference at the MIT Media Lab in June, one of the best presentations came from the co-creator of Many Eyes. Here’s a 7-minute video interview I did with Fernanda B. Viegas, research staff member of IBM’s Visual Communication Lab in Cambridge, […]