With the breakout at SXSW earlier this year, Meerkat reach 2:00. So, Periscope. 3:00 SVT, Disrupter industry. Not every company spends time at 3:00. Some burned out after takeoff. Others skipped an hour later. But things get interesting at 3:00. Most importantly, mainstream business press (New York Times, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal) began to pay … Read more
White House’s Alpha GeeksCTO Megan Smith and her deputy Alex Macgillivray are capturing the tech moment. This is their plan to improve the quotient of US technology.
New conversation thread on MediumHi, Backchannel readers. I want to flag something that we did this week a little differently. There is a feature in Medium called You Tell Me. See it as the reverse AMA. Instead of people asking a question, we have someone (famous or semi-famous, or just really interesting) asking community a … Read more
The leading technology long book of 2016 Certainly, the digital economy has collapsed and most tech journalists have spent an entire year selling flash drives in the streets. But 2016 may still be the best year for long tech articles. This is Backchannel’s 10 favorite reads. #### 1. black country Eight thousand beautiful words documenting … Read more
That is fair. Complete mission. If you can roll the tape back into AOL merger, what can you do to prevent disaster? Two years before the merger, AOL was valued at $ 20 billion. At the time of the merger, it was at $ 160 billion. At that stage, there is more downside risk than … Read more
Yes, the device has its obvious shortcomings. Discomfort, high-frequency hum when the device is muted, poor battery life, poor Bluetooth connection, difficult to use buttons that are annoying to use and more interesting to me are the consequences. awkward Assembly where people thought I got the attention but in fact, I was interacting with the … Read more
Techies and the Homeless: Frenemies Forever? This San Francisco politician wants to break the city’s 30-year-old homeless catastrophe by treating technology as a friend, not an enemy.
The candidate’s primary digital assistant explains HRC’s views on technology, economy and government. And why Trump is nowhere in this regard. Hillary Clinton inspects 3D printers in Waterloo, Iowa. (Bloomberg / Getty Images)Hillary Clinton was not joking when she released her technology policy initiatives in June. It’s a gladly-won Gladstone bag of positions on issues … Read more
I am still forming them. In whatever we have done at the foundation, we go through what I call the learning mode. That will sometimes last up to two years, where we learn, gather information, talk to many experts, and see what studies are available. Regarding this particular issue, I am in this learning mode. … Read more
first.We need to decentralize a wide range of our efforts. Make everything local. Apply principles like federalism and exploit them to our advantage: Instead of focusing on the federation to provide us with things like national broadband, double our efforts. we are at the local, city, and state level to ensure broadband access. Make cities … Read more
