Delicious Founder Creates New People Search Engine, Skills.to
Joshua Schachter and his team of star developers at TastyLabs have begun work on a second project, an endorsement and people search engine called Skills.to. The site lets you endorse people for their skills in various fields, see what the people you k...
Can OpenGeocoder Fill the Platform Gap Left by Google Maps?
How do machines understand what place you're talking about when you say the name of a city, a street or a neighborhood? With geocoding technology, that's how. Every location-based service available uses a geocoder to translate the name of a place i...
How Two Startups Use Games to Beat the Developer Crunch
"You can't judge if someone is one of the best programmers in the country in 1 minute, but it turns out you can in 5 minutes."
Good software developers are hard to find. Startups are all about finding creative solutions to common problems - so why no...
When Bots Go Mad
There may or may not be robots that are truly "good" someday, but there will probably be bad robots, if there aren't already. If not bad robots, then bad robot situations. You can catch a taste of the feeling of what might go wrong in the robot prici...
Amazon Launches Cloud-Based Business Process Automation Service
Amazon just announced the availability of a new service called Simple Workflow Service (SWF), which allows developers to define a series of complex steps in carrying out a business process, then implements and monitors those steps all together, as a se...
Pixar Engineers Leave to Build Real World Living Toys
Teddy Ruxpin, meet Siri.
Imagine a children's toy designed by the people behind the Toy Story and Finding Nemo movies but connected to the web and chock full of artificial intelligence. Then add in visual tracking, speech recognition and massive netw...
Why Talent Management Tech is Super Hot and Bound to Get Hotter
Skill building, tracking and optimization, knowledge retention and measurement of workplace effectiveness - those are the aims of some of the software industry's hottest companies. SuccessFactors got bought last year for $3.4 billion by SAP. Taleo got...
How Big Data From Connected Machines Gets Used
"Big Data" is a hot topic these days, but there hasn't been a lot of discussion about the specifics of what will most likely be one of the biggest sources of data: newly web-connected devices in the home and workplace.
I spoke this week with Bill Zuje...
$1m in 1 Day: Meet Double Fine, the New Kings of Kickstarter
Late last night Jane McGonigal, the most respected authority in the world of gamification, Tweeted that she'd pitched in to support the creation of a new point and click adventure game from respected game development shop Double Fine. That was the fi...
LinkedIn Eats Rapportive: Let’s Hope the Magic Lives On
Several years ago, I spoke on a panel at an advertising industry conference with Om Malik and Michael Arrington. Arrington, my former employer, was bored by the conversation and mocked me throughout it. One of the last questions we were asked on the ...
What Feminists Are Saying About the Facebook IPO
Facebook has announced what will likely be the tech industry's biggest Initial Public Offering of stock ever. What do practitioners of feminism, a philosophy centered in the experiences of women, have to say about the political economy of the world's ...
How YouTube is Part of a Global Economic Transformation
The Internet may have grown up first in the United States, but it's a global phenomenon now. The same can be said for the fast-growing body of educational content on the web. YouTube announced a new batch of partners that were added to its Education ...
