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Facebook at 250 Million Users: Could it Be Too Big?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 15, 2009 11:08 AM / 30 Comments
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Facebook announced today that it now has 250 million users, having added 50 million new users in just the past three months. If Facebook was a country it would now Continue reading »


Cross Reality Will Change Your Life, But at What Cost to Your Privacy?
Written by Richard MacManus / July 15, 2009 3:00 AM / 8 Comments
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Yesterday we explored an emerging trend called "Cross Reality", one term for when sensor networks meet online virtual worlds. As this trend becomes more common over the next few years Continue reading »


Breaking News Online: How One 19-Year Old Is Shaking Up Online Media
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 14, 2009 12:12 PM / 36 Comments
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Michael van Poppel used to be like a lot of young people, trawling the internet for interesting news about the world. Just like many others have considered doing, he created Continue reading »


Cross Reality: When Sensors Meet Virtual Reality
Written by Richard MacManus / July 14, 2009 12:00 AM / 5 Comments
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During my recent visit to MIT in Boston I met with Joseph Paradiso, Associate Professor and Director of the Responsive Environments Group at MIT Media Laboratory. He showed me some Continue reading »


Facebook's Stock Sale: Why You Should Care
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 13, 2009 10:48 AM / 9 Comments
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Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies will buy $100 million in Facebook stocks from the company's employees, Facebook announced today. Most casual Facebook users will probably look at that news Continue reading »


Google To Announce Major Identity Initiative for 1 Million+ Companies and Schools
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 8, 2009 8:06 PM / 24 Comments
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Google plans to announce in coming weeks that it is turning each of the one million plus Google Apps customer domains into an OpenID provider, enabling millions of people to Continue reading »


Does Twitter Deserve a Nobel Peace Prize? Maybe Not Yet, But It Could Someday
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 7, 2009 10:03 AM / 24 Comments
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It's hard to imagine anything more far out than the suggestion that the founders of Twitter be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, especially since the people who invented the internet Continue reading »


Wolfram|Alpha: The Use Cases
Written by Richard MacManus / July 6, 2009 4:00 AM / 11 Comments
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At the recent SemTech conference in San Jose, I sat down with Wolfram|Alpha's Russell Foltz-Smith. Wolfram|Alpha bills itself as a "computational knowledge engine," a nerdy and unfortunately not very intuitive Continue reading »


Ten Companies Twitter Should Consider Acquiring Next
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 3, 2009 12:20 PM / 35 Comments
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If you were a little blue bird, with a good pile of money and a whole lot of hype, what would you buy to spice up your nest? There are Continue reading »


How FriendFeed Could Become the Ultimate Social Media Tracking Service
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 2, 2009 2:25 PM / 16 Comments
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FriendFeed, the multi-network activity aggregator co-founded by Gmail creator Paul Buchheit, announced today that it has entered the crowded field of real time search. FriendFeed was already the best way Continue reading »


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