Though the social professional network now has more that 200 million users, its growth started with a sputtering engine. Reid Hoffman explains how it took off.
This week, MIT Media Lab researchers and minds from around the world got together to discuss artificial implantable memories, computers that understand emotion... and Microsoft-funded robotic teddy bears. Will the next Guitar Hero soon be discovered?
Should the plentitude of data the information age affords us be all that drives corporate decision-making? What about the ability companies now have--more than ever--to connect with their audiences in a more human and direct way? The real question is, does being dedicated to data somehow exclude more "human" approaches?
They were doing just fine before, but the biggest of minority owners of Facebook are about to be catapulted into a far more elite bracket. Reid Hoffman stands to make hundreds of millions on the deal, around $30 million of it right at once.
Hoffman's previously tossed cash at Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga. Now the Greylock partner sees potential in the data you can collect from watching who gives what kinds of gifts to whom, and when, and why.
