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| Aug 26, 2016 | When LinkedIn was young: the early years | LinkedIn was founded in late 2002, reached 1 million users in 2004 and was profitable by 2006
As our readers know, Vator has started a series called: When they were young.
It's a look back at the modest days of startups, how they evolv... |
| Jul 7, 2016 | Hillary Clinton and the Blockchain | Brian Forde Contributor
Brian Forde co-founded the Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab and was formerly a senior advisor at The White House.
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Hillary Clinton and the Blockchain Last week Hillary Cl... |
| Nov 9, 2015 | MIT Is Opening An Innovation Center In Hong Kong | Hong Kong is to be the location for a startup accelerator-style center of innovation from famed tech-focused U.S. university MIT.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (better know as MIT) announced today that it will open its first eve... |
| Apr 10, 2015 | Joi Ito Wants MIT to Be Neutral Place to Help Develop Bitcoin Standards | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Bitcoins have an uncertain path forward with the seeming implosion of the Bitcoin Foundation last weekend. But PayPal merchants and even presidential candidate Rand Paul have ... |
| Sep 27, 2014 | We Have Entered The Golden Age Of Hardware Hacking | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Apr 5, 2010 | An Interview with Mike Davey about his Homemade Turing machine | There’s something about geeky DIY projects that strike a nerve with the Internet. Case in point, the homebrew Turing Machine built by Mike Davey. He had no ulterior motive than to make something satisfying for himself, and literally overnig... |
| Jan 4, 2010 | Seesmic Looks Beyond Twitter – Acquires Ping.fm | Seesmic has acquiredPing.fm, a status update service that allows users to update posts on over 50 social networks through SMS, mobile apps, IM services and 3rd party apps that support the service. Seesmic plans to integrate Ping.fm into all... |
| Nov 28, 2009 | "Misunderstanding": Twitter Japan Now Says There Won't Be A Subscription Model (Update 3) | We reported yesterday about Twitter Japan’s plans to start charging followers to view tweets from certain users starting January and explained why this paid subscription model could work in Japan.
Well, please forget it, this won’t happen. ... |
| Nov 27, 2009 | Twitter Japan’s new monetization plan: Premium content | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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Twitter Japan will start allowing “premiu... |
| Nov 27, 2009 | Twitter Japan’s new monetization plan: Premium content | Updated
Twitter Japan will start allowing “premium” tweeters to charge readers a fee, said an executive at Twitter’s Japanese partner.
The announcement comes from Kenichi Sughi, an executive at Digital Garage, whose remarks at the Mobidec 2... |
| Dec 22, 2008 | Ping.fm Gets Backing from Reid Hoffman, Joi Ito | Who uses cross-posting social media app Ping.fm? A lot of people do, but now you can add LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and Creative Commons Foundation Chairman Joi Ito to the list. The two are among the most high profile angel investors in ... |
| Sep 15, 2008 | Dopplr: New Funding Round for Business Travel Network | Today, Dopplr, the social network for business travelers, announced that it has secured a second round of financing. The lead investor for this round is Ester Dyson. Other investors include Tom Glocer from Reuters, Joshua Schachter from del... |
| Aug 10, 2008 | Travelin’ Man | On June 17th, I left my office, got on the A train, and headed to JFK to grab a flight to SFO. Since that day almost two months ago, I have spent six nights in my home in NYC. And it’s not over yet. Between now and labor day, I think I’ll s... |
| Apr 1, 2008 | Joi Ito Takes Lead At Creative Commons | The five year old Creative Commons nonprofit organization announced a new CEO this afternoon as founding CEO Lawrence Lessig steps down: Joi Ito.
The organization is devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to l... |
| Dec 7, 2007 | Twitter apparently banned in UAE, like many other sites | The United Arab Emirates has apparently banned Twitter because its content is “not consistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values” of the country.
The report comes from investor Joi Ito, who posted this screenshot (belo... |
| Nov 16, 2005 | Emails To The Editor? Not So Many | Obviously, being online makes certain forms of communication easier. When you see a news article somewhere, and you have something to say about it, it’s a lot easier to fire up the old email program and send in a note (unless, of course, yo... |
| Aug 3, 2005 | Mozilla Goes Corporate | A few months ago there was some buzzing over the fact that the Mozilla Foundation’s search deals with both Google and Amazon apparently had the non-profit rolling in gobs and gobs of money. So much money and an inability to profit was appar... |
| Jul 8, 2005 | Web 2.0 This Week (July 3 – 9) | This week we saw a number of interesting web 2.0 developments. Far outstripping everything else, however, was the terrorist attack on London on July 7. Blogs and the Internet played a big role in getting information out to people, as televi... |
| Jun 6, 2005 | How Badly Does Microsoft Want To Control The Triple Play? | Think Microsoft is serious about trying to shove their software into every possible aspect of the backend for various triple play services? Just as stories are coming out about how dreadful their IPTV software is, the news comes out that Mi... |
| May 23, 2005 | Bagging the Post | I’ve written three blog entries in the past three days that I’ve decided not to post.
Why?
Because after reading them, I just didn’t feel like posting them.
It’s a new experience for me.
I can’t remember doing that more than three times tot... |
| Jan 14, 2005 | PeopleSoft People Show Up On LinkedIn In Droves | I certainly have made clear some of the problems with various social networking services like LinkedIn, but one area that many people have been successful in using LinkedIn is for recruiting. With that in mind, knowing that Oracle is cuttin... |
| Jan 14, 2005 | PeopleSoft employees flock to LinkedIn | Social networking sites have been derided as a fad without a business model. But professional networking sites may be another matter. Users clearly see a value in networking sites focused on cultivating professional contacts. Consider that ... |
| Oct 28, 2004 | Is BT Blocking VoIP? | We’ve discussed the issue of network neutrality before, where some application providers are afraid that the broadband network providers would configure their networks to block out (or maybe just degrade) those applications so they could pu... |
| Aug 5, 2004 | Forget Drugs, Now Kids Are Stealing To Support Their Mobile Phone Habit | We’ve had plenty of stories in the past about how stealing mobile phones was a popular crime, but how about stealing other stuff to pay for mobile phone service? A group of kids in Australia went around on a crime spree that netted approxim... |
| Aug 4, 2004 | Mailblocks Sells Out To AOL | When Mailblocks launched a year and a half ago, it seemed really strange. Here was a company that was doing exactly what a number of other companies were already doing (challenge-response email), but somehow Mailblocks got a ridiculous amou... |
| Jul 15, 2004 | Eisner "Liked Fahrenheit 9/11" | Michael Eisner is here at Brainstorm. He said he liked “Fahrenheit 9/11”
Joi Ito blogged it so I’ll just link to him. |
| May 16, 2004 | Movable Type vs. TypePad | It’s a coming of age for the blogging industry. We’ve got a full-blow business model issue developing at SixApart, the developer of both Movable Type and TypePad.
Jeff Jarvis has a good description of the issue up at Buzzmachine.
Jeff’s rec... |
| May 16, 2004 | Dodgeball | A guy I know in the venture business used to say, “The first time i hear about something, i ignore it. The second time, i go look at it. The third time, i invest in it.”
That’s a gross oversimplification to be sure. But there is something s... |
| Jan 18, 2004 | The Fractal Blogosphere | In this article I draft guidelines for a Fractal Blogosphere and suggest that it be used as a measure of scale in the weblogging world. The goal is to help bloggers, particularly new ones, easily fit into a suitable blogging pattern.
Joi It... |
| Jan 8, 2004 | Mailblocks Offers Free, Scaled Down Challenge Response | I’m still not a huge fan of challenge-response anti-spam systems, but I’m slowly changing my mind on them, depending on how they’re used. My problem with them, from the beginning, is that they have a huge false-positive rate – in that they ... |
| Jan 7, 2004 | Reality TV Meets Online Dating Meets… Highway Billboard? | Not quite sure what to make of the new advertising campaign from Yahoo Personals. It sounds like they’re trying to jump on the “reality TV” bandwagon by filming some dates from some of their users – but here’s where it gets strange. The dat... |
