Instrumenting the offline world
2010-10-29
In the last decade there have been major advances in storing, analyzing, and acting upon extremely large data sets. Data sets that were…
You need to use social services to understand them
2010-10-23
I don’t know if Malcolm Gladwell is right when he claims “the revolution will not be tweeted,” but I can say with certainty that the Twitter…
Online privacy: what’s at stake
2010-10-21
It is widely believed that a flourishing democracy requires an independent, diverse, and financially solvent press. With print newspapers…
Some thoughts on incumbents
2010-10-07
Reposted from Oct 7, 2010 from cdixon.posterous.com By “incumbents” I mean the big companies that are loosely competitive to your startup…