The Next Big Thing
John Doerr and Partners at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, (the legendary Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm) have increased the size of the Ifund (for iPad apps) and see the […]
May 2010
Enter The Matrix: The Deep Law That Shapes Our Reality
What if we had a theory that could explain everything? Not just atoms and quarks but aspects of our everyday lives too. Sound impossible? Perhaps not. It’s all part of […]
Airstrike Video Brings Notice To A Website
The release of the Iraq video (of a United States Army assault in Baghdad in 2007 that left 12 people dead, including two employees of the news agency Reuters) is […]
As Much Privacy As You Can Afford
There is a service that will provide the current location of any cell phone for $95.00. You give Best411 the phone number you seek and $95 and then they will […]
Twitter-A Work In Progress
Twitter introduces its latest innovations, such as, a new front page to reflect an expanding information network, new techniques in fighting spam aggressively, and a feature that will allow you […]
Rethinking A Gospel Of The Web
For about a decade now, ever since it became clear that the jungle of the World Wide Web would triumph over the walled gardens of CompuServe, AOL and MSN, a […]
The Third Culture
The third culture consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in […]
The Party’s Over: China’s Endgame
According to writer, Gordon G. Chang of World Affairs Journal, on October 1st of last year, China’s Communist Party celebrated the country’s National Day, marking the sixtieth anniversary of the […]
Africa Reboots
Harmony flowing from two sides that in the past have often been discordant: Africa’s emerging entrepreneurial class and its civil-society activists. Both groups, the private sector and civil society – […]
Microsoft Unveils Crowdsourcing For Politicians
As part of a strategy to take advantage of the open government initiatives, Microsoft has released a new cloud-based crowdsourcing platform for public officials and candidates running for office. Based […]