To be a hero, Genachowski needs to reject the forthcoming "industry consensus" from ITI as wholly inadequate and announce he will call for a vote on his "Third Way" Proposal in September as the only way to protect consumers.
This week, Facebook officially rolled out Facebook Places, its location-based service. This means that the time to get your strategy together for how to effectively use location to reach, engage, and empower brand activists is right now.
Al Franken warned a packed house in Minneapolis that the corporate takeover of our media, and the government's failure to stop it, is one of the most important issues of our time.
What are you waiting for? Friend request that cute guy and then let the ball sit in his court! We've only got one life to live, right? We might as well reach out and see who wants to be a part of it.
Despite lots of privacy controls, you still need to think about how you might be spotted on Facebook Places, even if you don't use Places. By default, any Facebook friend can tag you at a location.
Black holes continue to strain our imagination. It is estimated that our own galaxy have millions of them. On a grand cosmic scale, they could be the destroyers as well as creators.
Getting mad at Twitter for not being efficient at fostering relationships is like asking your television to talk back.
When the most popular website on earth outside of search engines launches a new feature automatically enrolling its 500 million active members in an elaborate geographic surveillance program, it's kind of a big deal.
On the 10 scale, for service and price Southwest lands a big 10 for their Internet roll out. FireFox needs a tweak to enter this Brave New World, if anyone from Mozilla is reading.
Technology firms usually operate under a rapidly changing environment, and the price for falling behind the curve is nothing less than failure.
It's time for all of us to step up. We need for the law to protect the internet: no discrimination in pricing or in service
Before the Internet, "cute" and "viral" rarely shared the same sentence. Now, adorable is an epidemic.
Welcome to the brave new world of social (media) government -- a world where you can use mobile phone apps to get information from Uncle Sam so you don't actually have to talk to him.
Despite spending less than men on electronics, women account for nearly 40 percent of the market. Yet electronics geared toward women are still all-too-often "pink and sparkly."
There was a time not long ago when it was easy to believe that Google was a different kind of company -- one that considered the public good as well as the bottom line in making decisions. My, how a week changes things.
One thing is certain, after the outright failure of Google Wave and lackluster response to Google Buzz, this is the company's last legitimate opportunity to go head to head with social networking king Facebook.
In this amazing age of progressive technology the uses seem unlimited. The good guy often finds out what he can do to improve his life with technology and the bad guy uses it to ruin others.
In the near future when I drive up to a village in Africa, although the roads may be bumpy, I will see a woman using a tablet PC powered by the latest renewable energy source. This is a vision of Technology that the administrator of USAID painted.
Using social networking websites can build your human capital, but social networking also has a dark side that can stifle creativity and foster narrow-mindedness if you're not careful.
Frank Luntz, 2010.08.20
