Seeing The World Through Glass
Next week I am going to give a series of seminars on Google Glass in London. (Feel free to attend!) In order to get ready for this, I have been wearing (using?) Glass for the past two months. It...
Read moreEric Schmidt on the Future of Computing and Television
Eric Schmidt, Google CEO I don’t normally like to lift texts from other publications, but in this case I am going to make an exception. The following is an excerpt from Eric Schmidt’s MacTaggart Lecture, delivered yesterday at the...
Read moreGoogle/Youtube says “Networks Can’t Cut It Anymore”
I stole this shot from The NYÂ Times…. It was inevitable. Youtube and online video chow through material. Today, people are uploading to Youtube at a breathtaking rate of 35 hours of video a minute. A minute. Conventional production companies...
Read moreThe World Before Google
Congratulations! You are our one billionth visitor… Like millions of others before us for the past 4,000 years or so, we made the trip to the Great Pyramids at Giza. As anyone who has been there can attest, at...
Read moreA New Kind of Journalism
Net assets: 1.3 billion U.S. dollars When I went to Columbia University the great hero of broadcast journalism was Edward R Murrow. When I went to work at CBS, Murrow’s visage stared out at me in the lobby. Â At...
Read moreBING-goes to Video
Why don’t you just Bing me? Yesterday at the All Things D conference Microsoft Chief Exec Steve Ballmer unveiled BING, their new search engine, and a competitor (in theory at least) to Google. Competitor to Google is no easy...
Read moreLive Blogging DNA
front row, center I am live blogging from DNA2009.com here in Brussels at the Plaza Hotel. We had a great deal of trepidation as we approached the opening day. Many other conferences had and have cancelled. We pushed on…...
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