TastyLabs Launches Skills.to
Joshua Schachter and his team of star developers at TastyLabs have begun work on a second project, an endorsement and people search engine…
Articles by Marshall Kirkpatrick
Wed, 29 February 2012
Sun, 26 February 2012
Can OpenGeocoder Fill the Platform Gap Left by Google Maps?
How do machines understand what place you're talking about when you say the name of a city, a street or a neighborhood? With geocoding…
Sat, 25 February 2012
How Two Startups Use Games to Beat the Developer Crunch
"You can't judge if someone is one of the best programmers in the country in 1 minute, but it turns out you can in 5 minutes." Good…
When Bots Go Mad
There may or may not be robots that are truly "good" someday, but there will probably be bad robots, if there aren't already. If not bad…
Tue, 21 February 2012
AWS Launches Simple Workflow Service
Amazon just announced the availability of a new service called Simple Workflow Service (SWF), which allows developers to define a series…
Fri, 17 February 2012
Pixar Engineers Leave to Build Real World Living Toys
Teddy Ruxpin, meet Siri. Imagine a children's toy designed by the people behind the Toy Story and Finding Nemo movies but connected to…
Mon, 13 February 2012
Why Talent Management Tech is Super Hot and Bound to Get Hotter
Skill building, tracking and optimization, knowledge retention and measurement of workplace effectiveness - those are the aims of some of…
Sun, 12 February 2012
How Big Data From Connected Machines Gets Used
"Big Data" is a hot topic these days, but there hasn't been a lot of discussion about the specifics of what will most likely be one of the…
Thu, 9 February 2012
Kickstarter's New Kings
Late last night Jane McGonigal, the most respected authority in the world of gamification, Tweeted that she'd pitched in to support the…
Tue, 7 February 2012
LinkedIn Eats Rapportive: Let's Hope the Magic Lives On
Several years ago, I spoke on a panel at an advertising industry conference with Om Malik and Michael Arrington. Arrington, my former…
Sun, 5 February 2012
What Feminists Are Saying About the Facebook IPO
Facebook has announced what will likely be the tech industry's biggest Initial Public Offering of stock ever. What do practitioners of…
Wed, 1 February 2012
YouTube Changing the World
The Internet may have grown up first in the United States, but it's a global phenomenon now. The same can be said for the fast-growing body…
Mon, 30 January 2012
Amazon S3 Reports Staggering Growth in 2011
Amazon Web Services just reported jaw-dropping growth in the number of objects stored in Amazon S3 year over year. "As of the end of…
Sun, 29 January 2012
Twitter's Censorship Policy: Three Unanswered Questions
In June of 2009, leading up to the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising, the Chinese government blocked access by its…
Sat, 28 January 2012
Data Privacy: What Bill Gates Said 10 Years Ago
Today is International Data Privacy Day, an event backed by companies like Intel, Ebay, Facebook and Microsoft, and dedicated to educating…
Mon, 23 January 2012
iTunes U 2.0: Not Perfect, Just Awesome
iTunes U has been around for a long time, but its expansion last week onto iPhones and iPads, as well as into new content like K-12…
Fri, 20 January 2012
Google Kills Magic Tools
Google announced today that it is closing a number of services that it wasn't able to attract millions of users to without making any…
Thu, 19 January 2012
Why Apple, Why Does it Have to Be Like This? The Cold Cynicism of the iBook EULA
It's hard to wrap my brain around the cold cynicism of Apple's releasing a new tool to democratize the publishing of eBooks today, only to…
Wed, 18 January 2012
Can Codecademy Teach Poor Kids?
Unemployment among youth of color is widespread & complex; can a tech education startup change things? The White House announced new…
Mon, 16 January 2012
Troubling Google Contractor Allegedly Caught Vandalizing Open Street Map (Updated)
The official blog of Open Street Map reports tonight that someone at a range of Google IP addresses in India has been editing the…
Fri, 13 January 2012
Why Facebook's Data Sharing Matters
Facebook has cut a deal with political website Politico that allows the independent site machine-access to Facebook users' messages, both…
The Good News About Google's New Search Plus Your World
Google launched a major new feature this week called Google Search Plus Your World and many people are incredibly upset about it. The…
Wed, 11 January 2012
Rest in Peace, Social Media ROI Doubts: 2006-2012
Many of us would love to be trained to have more social skills in everyday life, whether at work or at home. Or perhaps we wish other…
Mon, 9 January 2012
Will Data Collection on User Behavior Be Forced to End Soon?
Harvard Business Review ran three interesting short pieces in this month's magazine, under the misleadingly timeless title "Tackling…
