Analysis Why We Need To Keep Debate Alive In A Customized, Personalized World Maybe we're getting to be a bit of a broken record on this point, but a blog post this morning by Robert Scoble on how malleable social graphs could change the direction of location based services reminded us of the fine line we think we're all walking. Malleable social graphs, much like recommendation engines and customized searches, sound like… Mike Melanson View comments
Startups Are Incubators and Angels Gaining Leverage On Larger VC Firms? Being a resident of the Phoenix area, which is a significant distance from Silicon Valley, I wasn't able to attend the Demo Day show-and-tell pitch-fest at the end of Y Combinator (YC), but luckily, other reporters were there and have been slowly releasing stories about the companies and the event. Peter Kafka of All Things Digital published a… Chris Cameron View comments
Apple Why Jailbreak an iPad? Noted iPhone hacker George Hotz is teasing the web with a video that displays a new jailbreak for all iPhone and iPod Touch models, and maybe even the iPad, too, he says. This supposedly improved process (there's no code to examine yet) aims to solve a problem that came into play when updated devices like the iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 3.0 were… Sarah Perez View comments
NYT Need Directions? A Job At Sears? Train Info? Twitter Blog Highlights Novel Uses It seems almost daily that we run across yet another friend who asks "So wait, what exactly is Twitter? What does it do? Why do I care?" Every time we get these questions, we have to pause, take a deep breath, and figure out why it is, exactly that this particular person would care. It looks like Twitter itself has started to tackle this issue… Social Mike Melanson View comments
Crowdsourcing Are You Ready for the New, Easier Wikipedia? Wikipedia, the online user-created encyclopedia and the number six website on the Internet today, is about to get a makeover. And it's a big one. According to a blog post from the Wikimedia Foundation User Experience team detailing the changes, the upcoming Wikipedia redesign, due to launch April 5, aims to make the site easier to navigate… Sarah Perez View comments