Since December 2006, when Matthew Holt and Indu Subiya almost single-handedly began the Health 2.0 movement with Matthew's blog and their first conference, the entire world of health care has begun to change. And that's not a simple ...READ»
Sale made. Gift given. Little girl ecstatic. Chalk up another wonderful transaction to social commerce. Is your organization ready for the next buyer?READ»
Within five years, I predict, the word "social" will seem as cliché as "synergy" feels now. Social connection will be like a dial tone, something we once expected to hear and now don't bother listening for as we dial. What it represents is just there.READ»
Stanford undergrads squeal with delight at the slightest college reference, while Aaron Sorkin denies charges of sensationalism at a question-and-answer session.READ»
Brands are flocking to social networks, some with strategies and others simply experimenting with community building. What's clear is that the 3F's (friends, fans, and followers) are not created equal. READ»
A third of the world's population earns $2.50 or less a day. This disparity takes my breath away, but there's a flip side to it: That's a market of more than five billion dollars a day. Add the next segment ($5 a day), and you see that the poorest people in the world spend more than ten billion dollars to live their lives.READ»
Paul Allen: billionaire, philanthropist, industrialist, Microsoft co-founder...litigator. Today Allen, who rocketed to fortune with Bill Gates, filed suit against Apple, Google, AOL, eBay, Facebook...breathe, breathe...Netflix, ...READ»
Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg launched Places, Facebook's location-based Service. And what a presentation it was. Unashamedly amateur, (although credit should also be given to VentureBeat for its astonishingly indie auteur camerawork) if ...READ»
Yahoo calls it "increasing your social IQ," and seasoned social networkers might just call it bandwagon-jumping. We are, of course, referring to the relaunch of Yahoo Profiles--now called Pulse--a massive Facebook connect ...READ»
Booyah, the location-based game firm that's big on virtual goods, is earning real-time fans--and backers. The Palo Alto startup, led by Keith Lee, has amassed a not-to-be-sniffed-at $20 million from Accel Partners, whose Jim Breyer ...READ»
When the subject of cool, innovative brands comes up, it's a dead cert Apple gets a mention in the first five minutes. It's iconic, makes beautiful products, and has a wow factor that most tech companies would give their eye teeth ...READ»
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC--all fine news organizations, to be sure. But the surefire sign a story's made it out into the zeitgeist is when our nation's premier fake journalist, Jon Stewart, makes fun of it.READ»
I'm blessed with the opportunity to send my children to a
private school that uses both the community and many of the creative and
technological tools possible to educate. There is no resource they are not afraid to use and I love ...READ»
Brain Trust: Ning chairman Marc Andreessen (he built Netscape back in the day), with Bianchini, at the company's HQ in Palo Alto. | Photograph by Art StreiberIn May of 2008 Fast Company put Gina Bianchini on the cover and heralded the ...READ»
Inside: reports from the floor, celebrity sightings, unboxings, items iPad buyers say they would buy if Apple made them, and most importantly, sales predictions.READ»
Lisa Lapin
Director of University Communications
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California
Lapin, 45, helped start Futurity, a Web site that aggregates highlights of the latest research from more than 55 universities, from ...READ»
Silicon Valley used to be the home to the world's best orchards before tech companies paved it over. So when I heard about Maverick Brands, a new Palo Alto startup that's making juice under the Sunkist Naturals brand I wanted to learn ...READ»
