Y Combinator Demo Day Winter 2014
(B) This week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Winter 2014 Demo Day. As always, TechCrunch has good coverage of the event: Top 8 start-ups. All start-ups, […]
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Smart Clothing and Affective Computing
(T) Over a week ago, I received an interesting article from an online magazine French District about “le vetement intelligent” or “smart clothing”… “Il fut un temps où le pull tenait chaud, le […]
Art Technology and the Human Condition
(E) “Aujourd’hui Maman est morte” – “Today, Mother died”. The first sentence of “The Stranger” was very original for the beginning of a novel when it was published and has […]
Can You Build a Gaming App That Lasts?
(B) This week was the Game Developer Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. A lot of people, a lot of events, and a lot of parties! At the same time, […]
Y Combinator Female Founders Conference
(B) Y Combinator had a very successful Female Founders Conference at the Computer Museum earlier this month. Highlights of the conference as well as all the videos are now online and on the Y Combinator YouTube Channel. […]
Professor Schiller – In Search of a Stable Electronic Currency
(B) Yale Professor’s and Nobel Prize winner’s in economy Professor Schiller wrote a must-read article yesterday about Bitcoin in the New York Times: In search of a stable electronic currency. Professor Schiller […]
Can we Build Trust into the DNA of the Internet?
(T) “We have to trust the infrastructure (of the Internet)…The fact that it has been subverted in ways we don’t understand…we don’t know what to trust. And that is an […]
Regis McKenna and the Birth of Marketing for the Technology Industry
(B) Earlier this month, Regis McKenna was interviewed by NY Times journalist John Markoff at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. McKenna talked in this interview about his career, his marketing firm Regis McKenna Inc, the […]
Dancing with the Stars
(T) At the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris last year, Spanish Choregrapher Blanca Li explored with poetry the relationships between humans and robots. In her show Robots!, the robot character is played by Nao, the […]
Investing in Drought Technology
(B) While California is experiencing one of the most severe droughts in its history, all new irrigation technology proposed to California farmers are coming from overseas and not from Silicon […]
From Stuxnet to Careto
(T) It started with Stuxnet. And then, came Duqu, Flame, Gauss, Red October…and this week, Careto discovered by Kaspersky Lab. Unfortunately, those cyberweapons that we are identifying are likely to be just the top of the iceberg […]
StartX Start-Ups from Fall 2013 Class
(B) Yesterday StartX, Stanford’s non-profit organization which aims to accelerate the development of entrepreneurship at Stanford, had its demo day for its Fall 2013 Class. Always interesting to learn what the […]
The Cloudy Outlook for Emerging Markets
(B) Since last year, the headlines for emerging markets have not been very sunny to say the least. But there are starting for 2014 to be even worse. There is […]
From SDK to RDK or from Software Development to Robot Development
(T) Imagine that you can buy a Robot for $249 and that you can program it to help you with your Vietnamese or French cuisine or packing your suitcase the […]
From PostgreSQL to MongoDB – What Has Changed?
(T) I had the opportunity to listen last year to the “confessions” of Conrad Irwin (@ConradIrwin), a PostrgreSQL programmer now working on MongoDB @ an HTML 5 Developer Conference in San Francisco. There have been a […]
Metcalfe’s Makimoto’s Amdahl’s Moore’s & Grosch’s Computing Laws
(T) The December edition of the IEEE Computer Magazine has extensive analysis on some of the most well-known computing laws: Metcalfe’s, Makimoto’s, Amdahl’s, Moore’s & Grosch’s Laws. Obviously, Moore’s and Metcalfe’s are the most popular ones, but […]
Byron Wien’s Ten Surprises for 2014
(B) There are a few long-timers on Wall Street that I will stop whatever I am doing to listen to them on Bloomberg or CNBC. One of them is Byron Wien from […]
Thinks about Wearables as our Sixth Human Sense
(T) There are so many developer events and hackathons, and so many announcements from various market players about wearable computing, that it is somewhat challenging to keep a “sane” and […]
The Best and Worst Investments of 2013
(B) Today Bloomberg published a summary of the best and worst investments of 2013 (http://bloom.bg/IHVd1n). US stocks have been doing extremely well, energy funds are slightly positive, real estate funds […]
HTML 5 The State of the Union
(T) One of my favorite speakers about HTML 5 is certainly Mozilla’s Evangelist Chris Heilmann. I have attended two presentations from Chris over the last year about the state of HTML […]
Nelson Mandela Prisoner Liberator and President
(E) Mr. Mandela’s thoughts, actions, and life shall continue to be a living inspiration to every government and organizational leader, and to everyone on the planet. Please think and think […]
Please Donate for the Victims in the Philippines of SUPERTyphoon Haiyan
(E) Please donate to your favorite humanitarian organization for the victims in the Philippines of Typhoon Haiyan which kills at least 10,000 people. They need water, food, medicines, nurses, doctors, […]
jQuery and Angular two of the Favorite Front-End Tools for Web Developers
(T) The challenge for front-end Web developers is the multiplication of tools, some of them with a short life cycle: jQuery, Dojo, Modernizr, BackBone.js, Angular,js, Yeoman! Who knows what will be the winning tool, and when […]
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