Tag: technology
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Diego-San, Humanoid Robot One Year Old
I found this on Singularity and wanted to share it. This is Diego-san, a new humanoid robot who will be developed to help researchers better understand child development and motor skills.With 27 moving parts in its face and cameras in its eyes, Diego-san is able to produce a range of infant-like facial expressions. Pretty amazing…
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Future Perfect
I just finished reading Future Perfect by Steven Johnson and wanted o recommend it, as well as get the salient points across in words to help me better understand the reading. Johnson takes the reader through vignettes in history, and describes various social structures to make the point that decentralized, or distributed networks of decision-making are generally superior…
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Creative Destruction In the Music Industry
I am a very happy Spotify Premium customer. Everyone talks about Spotify like it’s some type of new social media driven discovery engine, spreading new music through our networks like a happy virus of connectedness. I think that description hurts them because that’s not what makes Spotify great and it’s not what’s innovative. I keep my…
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Joining the team at K2
I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be joining the team at K2 Media Labs on a full-time basis in the coming weeks. K2 is an early stage private equity fund that invests in startups focused on the connected consumer. The Company is a bit of a hybrid, in that it makes early-stage investments and also…
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Five Predictions for 2011
I started to write a retrospective on 2010, but decided that we all lived through the year and there are some great photo essays that are much more interesting than my thoughts. Instead, I’m going to make five predictions on tech, social and digital media trends in 2011. 1. Exponential growth in the U.S. smartphone…
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The Mis-Application of Innovation
With all of the recent discussion about civil charges being brought by the SEC against Goldman Sachs, I got into a discussion with some friends about innovation, it’s development and its misuse by people who either don’t understand the technology they are using, know and do not care about the risks involved, or knowingly behave…
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Locking on Strategy: Apple & Twitter
I’ve been trying to identify a trend I’ve seen this week in my RSS feeds, told through the story of Apple changing rules on iPhone application analytics (Venture Beat), the much-discussed HTML5 vs. Adobe battle (I like this Scobleizer read which discusses it) and Twitter developing 3rd party applications for mobile applications and acquiring Tweetie…
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The Startup Visa and David Ricardo
Allowing entrepreneurs into our country to start new businesses is good for everyone and it doesn’t threaten anyone. It’s only a net-positive benefit to GDP to have new value-generating firms in our country; I simply do not understand the counter argument.
Hi, my name is Christian. 