About Alex Iskold
Alex Iskold is a Feature Writer for Read/WriteWeb. He is also Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AdaptiveBlue, a smart browsing and personalization company.
His previous startup, Information Laboratory, was focused on applying the ideas of complexity science to software engineering. Alex and his team developed a tool, called Small Worlds, which automatically identified structural problems in large-scale software systems. After Information Laboratory was acquired by IBM, Alex worked in the IBM Automated Software Quality group as an architect.
Alex Iskold Archive
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07/16/09: The Future of Search: Social Relevancy Rank (29)
07/ 6/09: Free: It Works, It Cries, It Bites (32)
04/28/09: Facebook Has Twitter Envy - But Why? (57)
01/19/09: 7 Online Things To Do To Help Obama Restore America (74)
01/ 5/09: Brave New World: More Digital, Less Physical (25)
12/29/08: Beyond the API: Why Companies Should Have a Presence on All Major Platforms (7)
12/26/08: Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies (12)
12/25/08: Are YOU Replaceable? (13)
12/22/08: A Guide to The Contextual Web (40)
11/25/08: 2009 Tips for Big Web Companies (22)
11/18/08: Is YouTube the Next Google? (38)
10/30/08: LinkedIn, Stop Hiding People Behind Links (14)
10/22/08: Why Platforms Are Letting Us Down - And What They Should Do About It (18)
10/ 7/08: 5 Great Books to Build Your Character (20)
10/ 1/08: 5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind (82)
09/25/08: Patent Crisis and The Age of Open Source Ideas (20)
08/14/08: 12 Unit Testing Tips for Software Engineers (10)
08/12/08: Startup, Inc - What You Need to Know Before Starting a Company (25)
07/29/08: What Startups Can Learn From Haruki Murakami (33)
07/24/08: Beyond the API: Why Companies Should Have a Presence on All Major Platforms (12)
07/22/08: Top 10 Concepts That Every Software Engineer Should Know (76)
07/17/08: The Future of Computer Applications: Help Me or Entertain Me (13)
07/15/08: Facebook Platform: The Fanfare Revisited (14)
07/14/08: iPhone: The New Personal Computer (54)
07/ 9/08: Can Browser Add-ons Be Businesses? (21)
07/ 3/08: Does Microsoft + Powerset Beat Google? (21)
07/ 1/08: Is Email In Danger? (60)
06/26/08: People in Tech: Mike Dunn, VP Interactive Media, Hearst (1)
06/17/08: People in Tech: Brad Feld, Foundry Group (3)
06/11/08: Skydeck: Will It Be The First Billion Dollar Social Graph Company? (12)
06/ 2/08: People in Tech: Andraz Tori, CTO/Co-Founder of Zemanta (4)
05/29/08: Semantic Search: The Myth and Reality (29)
05/28/08: Freebase: Dispelling The Skepticism (8)
05/27/08: Making the Web Searchable: The Story of SearchMonkey (13)
05/22/08: SemTech Panel: Investor Opportunities and Pitfalls (2)
05/20/08: SemTech Panel: Taking Semantic Technology to the Masses (10)
05/14/08: The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces (41)
05/12/08: Twitter and the Architectural Challenges of Life Streaming Applications (29)
04/24/08: Faster - Why Constant Stress is Part of Our Future (31)
04/13/08: The American Dream: 17 Years of Engineering Software (31)
04/10/08: A Guide to Business Development 2.0 (38)
04/ 8/08: Top 10 Traits of a Rockstar Software Engineer (40)
03/25/08: Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies (32)
03/19/08: 5 Ways To Have Fun with Twitter When You're Bored (15)
03/12/08: 12 Future Apps For Your iPhone (55)
03/ 9/08: Why Apple Will Dominate Next Gen Computing (92)
03/ 6/08: The Coming Death of Paper as an Information Storage Medium (24)
02/26/08: Beware of Freeconomics (46)
02/25/08: Rethinking Recommendation Engines (17)
02/19/08: Are YOU Replaceable? (13)
02/18/08: Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds (17)
02/ 6/08: Reuters Wants The World To Be Tagged (15)
01/30/08: How YOU Can Make the Web More Structured (19)
01/24/08: The "Work From Home" Generation (63)
01/16/08: The Danger of Free (61)
01/ 9/08: Semantic Web: What Is The Killer App? (42)
01/ 7/08: 15 Questions for an Early Facebook User (13)
12/27/07: 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More! (32)
12/12/07: Good Things Take Time: New Tech Doesn't Go Mainstream Overnight (13)
12/11/07: The Evolution of Personal Publishing (13)
12/ 6/07: The Digg Effect (19)
12/ 4/07: Facebook and The Myth Of Contextual Advertising (42)
11/28/07: There's No Money In The Long Tail of the Blogosphere (98)
11/22/07: R/WW Thanksgiving: Thank You Google for Open Social (Or, Why Open Social Really Matters) (13)
11/21/07: The Rise Of Hyperlocal Information (17)
11/15/07: Who is Blogging and Why? Is the Blogosphere in a Digestion Phase? (44)
11/ 6/07: The Social Enterprise - What Works, and What Doesn't (30)
10/30/07: Amazon Dynamo: The Next Generation Of Virtual Distributed Storage (15)
10/25/07: Should Google Be Afraid Of Facebook? (19)
10/19/07: Java: A Retrospective (28)
10/16/07: The Future of Software Development (56)
10/10/07: The Structured Web - A Primer (37)
10/ 9/07: Adam vs. Eve: Does The Blogosphere Have A Gender? (12)
10/ 4/07: The New Rules Of Technology VC (24)
10/ 2/07: Wired vs Wired: Evolution of a Technology Magazine (11)
09/27/07: Facebook: What If More Is Less? (31)
09/26/07: Social Bookmarking Faceoff Reloaded (17)
09/20/07: Top-Down: A New Approach to the Semantic Web (17)
09/19/07: Semantic Web: Difficulties with the Classic Approach (37)
09/12/07: Social Graph: Concepts and Issues (13)
09/ 6/07: Google Custom Search: Setting The Bar For Vertical Search Engines (25)
09/ 4/07: MySpace: Hot or Not? (10)
08/30/07: Technorati: Can The Good Guys Still Finish First? (11)
08/28/07: Will Podcasting Survive? (24)
08/22/07: The Digestion Phase: How We Got Here And Where We Are Going Next (19)
08/20/07: Text and Banner Ads on Amazon: Has the World Gone Mad? (14)
08/15/07: How JavaScript is Slowing Down the Web (And What To Do About It) (58)
08/10/07: Privacy and Personalization: From Clickstream to Targeted Advertising (20)
08/ 6/07: Rethinking 'Crossing The Chasm' (42)
07/31/07: Wine.com Offers RSS-based API (4)
07/30/07: Towards the Attention Economy: Will Attention Silos Ever Open Up? (14)
07/26/07: The Top 10 Things I Wish My iPhone Had Today (22)
07/24/07: The Top 10 Things I Love About My iPhone (18)
07/16/07: How Apple Can Win The PC Battle (147)
07/11/07: The Evolution of Web Widgets: From Self-Expression to Media Companies (7)
07/ 9/07: The Physics of iPhone (6)
07/ 5/07: Digital Life vs Life Digital: Our Inevitable Digital Future (9)
07/ 2/07: Why iPhone May Really Matter (16)
06/28/07: Standard URLs - Proposal for a Web with Less Search (34)
06/26/07: Spock - Vertical Search Done Right (11)
06/20/07: Continuous Partial Attention: Software & Solutions (20)
06/18/07: Random House - Widgets and Web Services Done Right (11)
06/12/07: The Implicit Web: Last.fm, Amazon, Google, Attention Trust (10)
06/11/07: Me.dium Secures $15M Series B - The Dawn of Collaborative Browsing? (11)
06/ 5/07: Clearspring Lands Major Deal With NBC (5)
06/ 2/07: Technology and Terrorism: Are we being too naive? (35)
05/31/07: RIA: What is it good for? (18)
05/30/07: Evolution of Communication: From Email to Twitter and Beyond (11)
05/25/07: Amazon: Widgetizing Recommendations (5)
05/22/07: Facebook Platform: The Road to IPO? (2)
05/17/07: Google Universal Search - is Vertical Search Space Finished? (15)
05/16/07: The Race to Conquer Video Advertising (10)
05/10/07: The Art of Chart - Bringing Wall Street Ideas to the Masses (5)
05/ 9/07: How Much Textual Information Do We Consume Daily? (14)
05/ 3/07: eBay's New Services Are Chaotic - But Will They Still Be Profitable? (4)
05/ 1/07: Dapper: The Quest To Unlock Web Data (Legally) (20)
04/24/07: The Expansion of Social Networks (31)
04/12/07: What Does Google Think You Look Like? (18)
04/10/07: Google - The Ultimate Money Making Machine (57)
04/ 6/07: CrazyEgg - Measuring Web Site Usability (17)
04/ 3/07: The Future of RSS (46)
03/29/07: ETech: Big Company Hacks at Yahoo (2)
03/28/07: ETech: Mozilla Manifesto And Its Impact On Major Web Players (3)
03/28/07: ETech: Cool Stuff From Microsoft Live Labs (3)
03/27/07: Adobe Apollo - On A Collision Course With Web Browsers (23)
03/27/07: ETech: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on Building Web-Scale Computing (4)
03/27/07: Numenta - Has Artificial Intelligence Arrived? (30)
03/23/07: Current Mashup and API Trends (10)
03/19/07: Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services (45)
03/16/07: Summize: Enhancing Search With Heatmaps (8)
03/14/07: Open Data Workshop 2007 (3)
03/ 9/07: Technorati 100: What's Hot in the Blogosphere (36)
03/ 5/07: FeedBlendr - Feed Remix Service (10)
03/ 1/07: The Attention Economy: An Overview (45)
02/28/07: Software For Virtual Teams (41)
02/22/07: Songbird - Will Desktop/Web Blends Take Off? (9)
02/14/07: How Social Sites Reveal What Your Audience Likes (28)
02/13/07: Yahoo! Pipes and The Web As Database (19)
02/ 9/07: The Hybrid Design World of Digital and Physical - Nine Online, e-paper, iPhone (12)
02/ 8/07: Flixster: Analysis Of A Movie Social Network On The Rise (10)
02/ 2/07: Top 10 Picks From DEMO 2007 (10)
02/ 1/07: Me.dium Courts Controversy With Extreme Social Networking, Launched At DEMO (10)
02/ 1/07: Widgetbox Releases Blidgets (12)
01/24/07: The New Face of Amazon - Tags, Ajax, Plogs & Wikis (23)
01/22/07: Metacritic - The Grand Daddy of Mashups (10)
01/18/07: Trendwatching - Wired Or Tired In The Blogosphere (9)
01/16/07: The Art, Science and Business of Recommendation Engines (19)
01/15/07: LinkedIn and The Impending Challenge of Facebook (17)
01/10/07: Analyzing Trends From Seth Godin's Web 2.0 Index (11)
01/ 8/07: Browster Is Gone, But Are Web Previews Here To Stay? (18)
01/ 5/07: Overview of Clustering and Clusty Search Engine (25)
01/ 2/07: The Race to Beat Google (41)
12/25/06: Read/WriteWeb Christmas: Widgets, not Cheese (7)
12/21/06: ClearForest: a Top-Down Approach to Semantic Web (12)
12/19/06: The Social Shopping Faceoff (21)
12/14/06: ChaCha: A Human-Powered Search Engine (37)
12/ 7/06: Hakia - First Meaning-based Search Engine (43)
12/ 5/06: Retrevo - What Vertical Search Will Become (7)
12/ 1/06: Online Classifieds Market Overview (29)
11/28/06: Amazon Web Services Success Stories (8)
11/17/06: In B.E.D. with TechCrunch - literally... (5)
11/14/06: Quintura Search Engine gets backing from early Skype investor (9)
11/14/06: ClearSpring enters the widget space with a developer focus (4)
11/14/06: The Road to the Semantic Web (14)
11/ 3/06: Amazon Rolls Out its Visionary WebOS Strategy (8)
10/26/06: Web Browser Faceoff (42)
10/25/06: Review of Firefox Recommended Add-ons (6)
10/20/06: Internet Explorer 7 Review (38)
10/17/06: Firefox 2.0 Review (44)
10/11/06: The Social News Faceoff (27)
10/ 9/06: BuzzLogic: Interview with Co-Founder Mitch Ratcliffe (9)
10/ 6/06: Multiply: A Different Approach To Social Networking (5)
10/ 5/06: HeyLetsGo: Interview with CEO Roy Rodenstein (2)
10/ 3/06: eSnips: Chat with Yael Elish, founder and CEO (5)
09/29/06: Watch Out Google, Vertical Search Is Ramping Up! (15)
09/28/06: Pluggd: A Chat With CTO Jonathan Thompson (2)
09/27/06: Widgetbox calls to widgetize the Web (3)
09/27/06: PostPath goes after Microsoft Exchange (2)
09/27/06: Retrievo innovates in consumer electronics search (1)
09/27/06: Widgetbox: A Chat With CEO Ed Anuff (0)
09/26/06: Live from DEMOfall: USBCell does away with chargers (1)
09/26/06: Live from DEMOfall: Lirix innovates in music advertising (7)
09/26/06: Live from DEMOfall: BuzzLogic innovates in social influence space (2)
09/26/06: Live from DEMOfall: RingCube launches Mojopac - pure portable computing magic (2)
09/26/06: Live from DEMOfall: Presto - photos for people who are not online (2)
09/26/06: Live from DEMOfall: Tribeca Labs bring interesting twist to photo space (1)
09/26/06: Live from DEMOfall: Dash Navigation launches first truly connected automotive navigation system (4)
09/21/06: The Social Networking Faceoff (29)
09/18/06: The Social Bookmarking Faceoff (74)
09/13/06: The Web VC Chart (32)
09/ 5/06: The Web Photo Sharing Site Faceoff (27)
08/22/06: Web Platform Primer - what's available via API? (1)