Come On Silicon Valley, We Can Provide a Better Rx for Jobs!
Fortune magazine has an article running that Techmemed about some advice Barrack Obama is getting about jobs from Silicon Valley Heavyweights like Kleiner VC John Doerr and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. They’re all about Education and Immigration Visa Reform as the path to creating jobs, along with plugs along the way for their own ventures. Here [...]
How Does the Web See You? Find Your Internet Persona.
The other day I was watching a movie of my life. Well, sort of. Courtesy of Peter Kim who pointed to this experiment by MIT PhD student Aaron Zinman, I got to peek into the process of how his algorithm analyses my digital footprint: Wow, a lot of old activity, and I’m really surprised [...]
And the Nobel Peace Prize Goes to… Enterprise 2.0
Yesterday was just another busy day. But it wasn’t. For some reason, the Nobel Peace Foundation decided that Brand Obama was the person most responsible for peace in 2009. Whether you like the direction the Obama administration is heading or not, awarding prizes for peace that may or may not happen is plain silly. Former [...]
Facebook Polls – The Ugly Side of Public Polls
I am sure that there is some person out there that has gone into relative hiding right now as the FBI and Secret Service starts investigating whomever put up a poll on facebook “Should Obama be Killed?”. Common sense obviously took a holiday here, and this just opens the door to all sorts of conversations [...]
More Support For Putting Government On The Clouds
Image via CrunchBase When Mr. Obama was elected as President of United States, we noted that he could tap into the Clouds to make government efficient and, soon, this prediction turned out to be true. Now, David Kralik, Internet Strategy Director for a non partisan group headed by former Republican speaker Newt Gingrich, also pushes [...]
Obama Team Talks About Putting Govt. On The Clouds
Image via Wikipedia When Barack Obama was elected to Presidency in November, I posted an article here at Cloud Avenue titled Barack Obama and Cloud Computing. In that article, I interpreted Barack Obama’s technology policy and said the following. Opening up government to its citizens and bringing the government to 21st century: In other words, [...]
Is Hulu the First Casualty of the Inauguration?
O-Day was supposed to be the first US Presidential Inauguration largely available online. 54% of our readers are based in the US, and it’s probably fair to say the lives of others will also be affected by the change of guards in the US, so I thought it was a good idea to provide the [...]
