It’s been a week now since the Consumer Electronics Show closed. I wanted to take that time to read all the reports and get rid of any overhype I picked up because of all those big screens that I saw. Really the story was sensors. Whether video sensors on glasses, heart rate sensors on watches, … Continue reading The Contextual, Sensual CES2013
Last night Cinch.fm (an audio service for mobile phones) announced it was shutting down (the parent company, BlogTalk Radio isn’t shutting down, just the Cinch.fm). Major bummer because I have more than 300 recordings on the service including some really historic ones with folks like Instagram’s founder, Kevin Systrom and more. That interview is here. … Continue reading Cinch.fm mobile audio service shuts down, demonstrates troubles of when you bet on services you don't control
It’s not every week that I get an inside look into two companies that are absolutely nailing it, both with real results and with PR and awards. But these two companies are why I travel so much and like visiting the companies themselves (I think I’m the only tech blogger who actually VISITS most of … Continue reading Inside two innovative San Francisco area startups that are seeing sizeable success
So, you arrive at SXSW in Austin, you open View on your iPhone, and it shows you what is going on near you. Restaurants people like. News events that are happening right now. Parties that are hot. Things like that. Watch this video and you’ll learn more about how it works from co-founders Felix Chan … Continue reading First look: View.io lets you see news and info about places near you
I recorded a 45 minute walking tour of CES where I walk through almost the entire CES from one side to the next. On the tour I met up with Bre Pettis, founder of Makerbot Industries, which is a 3D printer that really rocks. You can watch the whole thing which has no edits, just … Continue reading The walking tour of CES (first look at the eBay augmented reality shopping app)
The car companies are here in force at CES. Well, at least Audi and Ford are (Ford, later today, will announce an electric car on stage here, and they gave me a 2012 Ford Explorer pre-production model that has all sorts of interesting technology which I’ll tell you about next week). What’s going on? Why … Continue reading Why the car companies are at CES (and why tech world should pay attention)
Today I’ll be on a panel at Failcon about privacy. More on that in a second, but last week I visited the Gates Building at Stanford University. You know, that’s the building where Google’s founders went to computer science classes and developed Google. While there I met a student, Arvind Narayanan, and a professor, Dan … Continue reading Failcon Privacy Panel topic: why are location services ignoring these guys?