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 […]
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Serge-Paul Carrasco
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 […]
NodeJS the Favorite Back-End Tool for JS Developers
(T) Among emerging development platforms for back-end Web services, go to any conference, and you will hear about Node.js. San Francisco had just a conference a few weeks ago: Node Summit. While […]
The Leap Motion SDK for Web 3D Developers
(T) I attended this week at the HTML 5 Developer Conference, a presentation from Leap Motion about its latest SDK for Web Developers. But before to get into the SDK, let’s understand how […]
How to Compute with Schroedinger’s Cat – An Introduction to Quantum Computing
(T) The Schroedinger’s cat experiment presents a cat that is both alive and dead and illustrates the superposition of states, a property of a quantum system. This week, Eleanor G. Rieffel from the Quantum Artificial […]
Fama Shiller and Hansen Win Nobel Prize for Research in Asset Pricing
(B) When I was a kid, we were always laughing at the forecast of the weather on TV. Now, weather forecasts are extremely detailed and accurate. Since I have been […]
PIMCO Bill Gross and BlackRock Larry Fink Back at UCLA Anderson
(B) The world’s largest bond mutual fund manager, PIMCO’s Bill Gross, and the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, two graduates from the UCLA Anderson School of Management (where the author […]
Silicon Valley Code Camp
(T) This weekend, at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, 5,000 Silicon Valley engineers will attend Code Camp. Certainly the biggest code camp in the world! A great place to learn from other […]
NoSQL Database Conference
(T) The NoSQL database conference “NoSQL Now” occurred this week in San Jose. All the major NoSQL vendors were there: mongoDB, Objectivity, Crouchbase, Neo4j… Like last year, what surprised me was the […]
Y Combinator Summer 13 Demo Day
(B) Yesterday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Summer 13 Demo Day. TechCrunch has a good coverage of the event: Top 8 start-ups. All start-ups, that introduced […]
The Hyperloop Vehicle Capsules Accelerated by a Linear Electric Motor up to 760 mph in Solar Powered Tubes
(T) Imagine that you could attend a lecture at UCLA in the morning, and at Stanford in the afternoon; or the same day that you finish coding a game in […]
Sensors in the Internet of Things
(T) When I worked at Sun Microsystems, we used to say “The Network is the Computer”…now maybe… “The Sensor is the Computer”. Sensors can now not only capture data but […]
Why not an Agriculture that is Natural Bioregional and Sustainable?
(E) The New York Times has published today a great article about how Florida citrus growers are trying to producing new oranges by modifying their DNA. Why would they do […]
The Eleventh Season From Bach
(E) One of the best musical secrets of Silicon Valley: Music@Menlo or the finest summer Chamber Music Festival. This Eleventh Season of Music@Menlo organized by Music Directors David Finckel and Wu Han […]
The African Family
(B) “AFRICA IS A PARADOX. It is one of the richest continents on the planet, endowed with oil, precious stones, and metals, forests, water, wildlife, soil, land, agricultural products…(but) any […]
The Mouse and the Mother of All Demos
(T) I had the opportunity to attend many events at SRI International in Menlo Park about the inventions and contributions of Doug Engelbart. Yesterday, Mr. Engelbart peacefully left us. According to the […]
Repair and Reform the Only Way to Growth
(B) Last week, Chairman Ben Bernanke signaled that the current Feds’ program of bond purchases of $85 billion a month (or QE – quantitative easing forever) will slow later this […]
Meet the Latest Wave of Mobile App Entrepreneurs
(T) A few inspiring videos from the latest wave of mobile app entrepreneurs. Four well-known apps. Four different stories…Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger “from Stanford to Start-up”, Pulse […]
The Forefront of Robotics
(T) Bloomberg TV has a great new documentary about three robotic companies in Boston, the epicenter of the robotics industry in the US. The documentary “starts at iRobot, the pioneering company […]
Better Place What Went Wrong?
(B) Being able to recover quickly from mistakes is key to survival for a start-up. A great vision is just the beginning of the story. And if the luck is […]
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