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How Glenn Beck Won the Audience Over at the Upfront Summit

How Glenn Beck Won the Audience Over at the Upfront Summit

By Mark Suster on February 6, 2017

  If you asked me a year ago when we were hosting the 2016 Upfront Summit the odds of Glenn Beck speaking at the next Summit I would have emphatically said ZERO. The first sign that there might be more to Glenn Beck than the impressions I had had from occasionally watching a clip from […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2016-election, politics

Let Me Point out to you How Ridiculous the Trump Tech Meeting Was

Let Me Point out to you How Ridiculous the Trump Tech Meeting Was

By Mark Suster on December 14, 2016

A room full of some of the top tech leaders in our country: Apple, Facebook, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Amazon, Tesla and so forth. It’s a breath of fresh air to see that Marc Benioff, who has become a beacon for protecting the rights of our most vulnerable citizens, is not in attendance. But […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged donald-trump, politics

We really all thought it was Google, only to find out it was the person’s employer

We really all thought it was Google, only to find out it was the person’s employer

By Dan Morrill on August 2, 2013

We really all thought it was Google, only to find out it was the person’s employer Yesterday the web site Medium posted that they got a surprise visit from the Joint Terrorism Task Force to talk about some Google searches they were doing about pressure cookers, back packs, and other interesting things to search for. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology | Tagged Bruce Schneier, facebook, google, Joint Terrorism Task Force, Medium (TV series), Medium.com, politics, Pressure cooking, prism

22 USC 1461 sec 501 Why the proposed changes could be awesome

22 USC 1461 sec 501 Why the proposed changes could be awesome

By Dan Morrill on May 24, 2012

The US Government wants to modify 22 USC 1461 sec 501 so that they can put propaganda on the internet. There is a risk of people being exposed to said propaganda, but wouldn’t you really like to know what the US Government is saying to other countries, and specifically to the citizens of those other […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged politics, social media, United States

Canada is mulling over the idea that customers pay for their own phone surveillance

Canada is mulling over the idea that customers pay for their own phone surveillance

By Dan Morrill on March 16, 2012

Canadian Bill C-30 proposes a tax on people purchasing internet and phone services so that the cost of paying for surveillance equipment or responding to Law Enforcement lookups will not burden either the government or the ISP/Phone Company. Canada plans on taxing users of systems so that they can be monitored by the government. There […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Security | Tagged Canada, humor, internet monitoring, isp, politics | 1 Response

Why SOPA is going to be unenforceable

Why SOPA is going to be unenforceable

By Dan Morrill on November 16, 2011

I would lay odds that SOPA is going to pass, and pass by a majority in the house and senate; it is debatable if the president will sign it. If you have been involved in Bittorrent or P2P systems for a long time, you know that the minute something passes like a law against something, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology, Trends & Concepts | Tagged BitTorrent, Netflix, pirate bay, politics, SOPA, Techdirt

Does Twitter Censor hashtags?

Does Twitter Censor hashtags?

By Dan Morrill on September 17, 2011

There is an interesting hash tag for #occupywallstreet this morning with a protest going on in New York City about the crimes of banks and the rest of wall street. So far estimates are that there are thousands of people in the streets in New York protesting the entire banking system. What is of interest […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged facebook, hashtag, New York City, politics, Trending topic, twitter, wall street | 5 Responses

From Arab Spring to UK Summer putting the brakes on Social Networking

From Arab Spring to UK Summer putting the brakes on Social Networking

By Dan Morrill on August 11, 2011

First World meets Social Media and attempts to curtail it much like their third world counterparts – too late the cat is so far out of the bag we can’t even catch a whiff of what things were like before social media communications to coordinate groups for good, or bad. It is interesting that the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged David Cameron, facebook, Government, linkedin, politics, Research In Motion, social media, twitter

Come On Silicon Valley, We Can Provide a Better Rx for Jobs!

Come On Silicon Valley, We Can Provide a Better Rx for Jobs!

By Bob Warfield on August 4, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts, Your POV | Tagged Big Government, economy, education, employment, job creation, job market, obama, politics, silicon valley

Spying on Students is Not a Crime. Neither is Political Corruption.

Spying on Students is Not a Crime. Neither is Political Corruption.

By Zoli Erdos on August 17, 2010

<quick rant> Remember the school district that spied on students (and their families) in their home, using remotely controlled laptop cameras?  The Feds found it was OK…or at least not criminal.  The AP reports: U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger says investigators have found no evidence of criminal intent by Lower Merion School District employees who […]

Posted in General | Tagged blago, blagojevich, corruption, justice, lower merion school district, politics, spy cam

Microsoft Should Donate PowerPoint to the Taliban

Microsoft Should Donate PowerPoint to the Taliban

By Zoli Erdos on April 28, 2010

I don’t pretend to be a military strategist, but I’ve figured out how to win the war in Afghanistan.  OK, not on my own – The New York Times helped, with an article titled: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint: Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in […]

Posted in Just for fun | Tagged afghanistan, army, bureaucracy, humor, microsoft, military, politics, powerpoint, ppt, war | 4 Responses

I think we forgot something on the way to the future

I think we forgot something on the way to the future

By Dan Morrill on April 27, 2010

Our future was supposed to be bright and shiny.  I think we messed up somewhere along the line. I do not normally write about politics, and I try to keep this blog generally upbeat. While I am busy building out my company and seeing good growth and support from the people we serve, there are […]

Posted in General | Tagged idea, politics, United States

Old media, new media and presentation skills changing the face of British Politics

Old media, new media and presentation skills changing the face of British Politics

By David Terrar on April 23, 2010

A complex equation of old media influence, new media influence, and plain old fashioned presentation skills are in the process of changing British Politics forever.  I don’t usually get in to political issues  here (and please note my disclosure at the end), but there are some important lessons to learn from  the UK’s first General […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged politics, social media

The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

By Mark Suster on April 5, 2010

“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. university in math or science” (Thomas Friedman) I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement.  I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note […]

Posted in Analysis, Entrepreneurship | Tagged education, immigration, politics, startups, startupvisa, Tech Market Analysis, visa | 2 Responses

Who controls what happens in your browser

Who controls what happens in your browser

By Dan Morrill on March 26, 2010

Interesting tidbit over at Techdirt this morning about a Grease Monkey script called Fluff Busting Purity formerly known as Facebook Purity. While the Techdirt article is good, there are some interesting side issues here that should be noted. Many people run scripts within their browser that kills data coming in from web sites, most popular […]

Posted in Security | Tagged Ad filtering, facebook, Facebook Purity, Greasemonkey, idea, politics, sad, web 2.0 | 1 Response

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