Favo.rs brings accountability to business relationships

Jan 24 by Sal McCloskey | 2 comments

LinkedIn and Facebook may have the market cornered for building relationships between business professionals, many startups are starting to pop up that take it to the next level. One such startup is Favo.rs. I was first turnedonto Favo’rs a couple of months ago from an article on Wired. A “good ol’ boy” network, as they more »

What Gingrich, Santorum, and Romney should learn from Paul (and Obama) about the internet

Jan 21 by JD Rucker | 4 comments

Today is a different world when it comes to political campaigns. A decade or two ago given the same candidates of today with the same scenarios but a less-prevalent internet, Ron Paul would be in single-digits in the early primaries and Rick Perry (and possibly Herman Cain) would still be alive more »

The Silicon Valleys... of the world

Jan 20 by Rocco Penn | 1 comment

Just as movies are made outside of Hollywood and cars are built outside of Detroit, entrepreneurs, startups, and venture capitalists are present in places other than Silicon Valley. Worldwide, there are business-friendly environments that are conducive to expansion of technological advancements. more »

Predators versus prey in the startup ecosystem

Jan 19 by Connor Livingston | add comment

The “Startup Sea” is broad and loaded with life. There are those who are considered predators, which means someone has to be the prey. It’s a self-sustaining culture as long as there’s enough people (and dollars) looking for “the next big thing” coming into our lives. That part, at least, seems more »

SOPA and PIPA: Everything you need to know

Jan 17 by Sal McCloskey | 2 comments

Today is SOPA Blackout Day to oppose the bills currently being proposed in Congress, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect-IP Act (PIPA). You may have noticed that there are several major websites that are down today, including Wikipedia, Reddit, and Mozilla. You may have noticed that you more »

The SOPA blackout is the most American thing we've done all day

Jan 17 by JD Rucker | 4 comments

The Tea Party movement was intended for Americans to harken to the revolutions of the past when tyranny and taxation reigned over the colonies. The #OccupyWallStreet movement drew awareness to the tremendous gaps between the “haves” and the “have nots” with a call for a more sensible distribution more »

Modern language wars: PHP vs python vs ruby

Jan 17 by Rocco Penn | 6 comments

There are several questions that programmers must answer when deciding on their language of choice. Depending on who you ask, the passions towards one language or another can spark debates, even “nerd fights” as can be found in some videos (we won’t like them here but you can find them on YouTube). more »

Netflix woes continue, this time from angry investors with a class-action suit

Jan 17 by Connor Livingston | add comment

The terrible summer and fall that Netflix had in 2011 seemed to have turned as poor decisions were reversed, new deals were made, and the fallout over price increases had passed. As 2012 begins, Netflix faces a new threat: its own investors. A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California, by the City of Royal Oak Retirement more »

IBM's vision of the technology world in the next 5 years

Jan 15 by Rocco Penn | 2 comments

Every year, IBM takes a stab at telling the future by examining what they’re working on in their 5in5 series. This year’s list was surprisingly bland compared to past ones as they explored technologies that many would agree aren’t necessarily 5 years away; in two cases, we should see these technologies more »

This cake is not a lie

Jan 14 by Scarlett Madison | 4 comments

We normally don’t look at cooking as a way to generate tech discussions or exemplify geek awesomeness, but this sort of cooking does the trick. Fans of the game Portal should be very familiar with the concept of “the cake’s a lie.” If you played the game, you probably cannot look at cake (or the promise more »

Samsung unveils the smartest window you've ever seen at CES

Jan 14 by Connor Livingston | add comment

“Quite frankly, I feel like I’m in Minority Report and that’s really awesome,” said Ashley Esqueda from Mobile Nations. If there was any doubt that technology was reaching a tipping point where things from our imaginations were becoming a reality, the Samsung “Transparent Smart Window” technology may be enough more »

Website owners, here's how to protest SOPA on January 18th

Jan 14 by Sal McCloskey | 2 comments

Social news aggregator Reddit.com took the lead and announced that they were “going black” on January 18th to protest SOPA and PIPA. Despite backpedaling in Congress, the need is greater than ever for people to learn what the bills will mean if passed. Other websites need to follow Reddit’s lead. Several more »

Visualizing the answers to the ultimate showdown: "Geeks vs Nerds"

Jan 13 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

For much of the 70, 80s, and even 90s, “nerds” and “geeks” were synonymous for most who used the terms. The words could be interchanged and nobody would give it a thought. After the turn of the millennium, it became clear that the two groups became distinct (if they weren’t already) and headed in different more »

90s kids in 45 years

Jan 12 by Scarlett Madison | add comment

If you ask older people today, many would use phrases of disappointment akin to “weeping for the future” or “I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.” The perception of the future for the younger generation isn’t much different; cynicism is strong and our future doesn’t seem as bright as it once more »