Category Future
Why Apple TV Could be a game changer
Today, during Apple’s announcement my Twitter stream was a festival of haters. People made fun of the Pencil and Live Photos, and pretty much everything else. In the meantime, I bought some Apple stock. I am long $AAPL, because the company is expanding the product line, and getting more embedded into our homes. Apple has […]
Ideas on a Napkin: Integrating Email, Todos and Calendar
Brad Feld just wrote a post on why email clients suck. Go read Brad’s post if you’ve not read it yet. Brad makes a point that we keep doing the same repetitive tasks, like adding someone to email chain, or moving someone to bcc, and the tools just don’t get it. The collective of these […]
Tech winter maybe coming: Here is what it means for your startup
Bill Gurley, an investor at Benchmark, is one of the most well known and respected Venture Capitalist in the word. He recently posted a series of tweets about upcoming tech downturn that triggered this Business Insider post and this post by re/code. The Problem In a nutshell, the problem is that currently private markets are […]
Are YOU ready, Player One? The upcoming age of virtual reality.
Last week, I finished Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Admittedly, I am a little late to the party. The book, published in 2011, is already a classic, soon to be a movie directed by Steven Spielberg. The plot itself is okay, not amazing. A little cheesy, uneven and always predictable. Yet, the book has […]
The real tech behind 7 Techstars NYC grads
The real technology often gets lost in the noise of Demo Days. We talk about funding, growth, markets, but less about the real tech. And it makes sense because technology is an enabler, it is a means to an end, and not a business by itself. Well, this batch of Techstars NYC is a little […]
Why traditional TV is the real Walking Dead
For years people have been talking about the demise of traditional television, and now, it is finally here. It is getting unbundled and attacked from so many different directions that there is no way that it can be around as is for much longer. Lets take a look how and why TV is getting unbundled, […]
I’ve seen the new face of Search, and it ain’t Google.
I’ve seen the new face of Search, and it ain’t Google. What is it you ask? It is a Text message. Wait, what? A text message?! Alex, this really makes no sense?! Ah, but it does. Read on, and you will see why… The Rise of Mobile The rapid rise of mobile is wiping out […]
The Not-So-Great Present and The Bright Future of Mobile Web
It is striking just how big the mobile web grew, yet how poor the mobile user experience is. Sites are reporting that 50-70% of the traffic is on mobile, yet their pages either don’t render at all or don’t render legibly on mobile. At best, a site claims to be mobile responsive, meaning that it renders legibly. […]
ART and Harmony of Digital and Physical Life
I was watching America’s Got Talent with my kids and was mesmerized by two performances. Both of them used projection screen and multimedia to blend digital and physical life to create, what felt like, a completely new experience. Here is the first one: and here is the second one: Back in 2007 I’ve written a […]
Is YouTube the Next Google?
During the Web 2.0 Summit recently, the Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, pointed out that one of the reasons the world is no longer the same is YouTube. For better or worse, said Mr. Newsom, we are now always on the record. Every significant and insignificant conversation is being recorded, and the videos are […]
