About Alex Iskold
Alex Iskold was a Feature Writer for ReadWriteWeb from 2006-2009. He is the 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.
Recent Articles by Alex Iskold
Alex Iskold Story Archive
- Facebook Has Twitter Envy - But Why? April 28, 2009 4:15 PM
- 7 Online Things To Do To Help Obama Restore America January 19, 2009 6:50 PM
- Brave New World: More Digital, Less Physical January 5, 2009 7:00 PM
- Beyond the API: Why Companies Should Have a Presence on All Major Platforms December 29, 2008 9:00 PM
- Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies December 26, 2008 9:00 AM
- Are YOU Replaceable? December 25, 2008 10:00 AM
- A Guide to The Contextual Web December 22, 2008 9:00 PM
- 2009 Tips for Big Web Companies November 25, 2008 11:00 AM
- Is YouTube the Next Google? November 18, 2008 4:00 PM
- LinkedIn, Stop Hiding People Behind Links October 30, 2008 5:00 AM
- Why Platforms Are Letting Us Down - And What They Should Do About It October 22, 2008 10:10 PM
- 5 Great Books to Build Your Character October 7, 2008 8:13 PM
- 5 Great Science Books to Expand Your Mind October 1, 2008 8:52 PM
- Patent Crisis and The Age of Open Source Ideas September 25, 2008 9:45 PM
- 12 Unit Testing Tips for Software Engineers August 14, 2008 12:45 AM
- Startup, Inc - What You Need to Know Before Starting a Company August 12, 2008 1:18 AM
- What Startups Can Learn From Haruki Murakami July 29, 2008 7:48 PM
- Beyond the API: Why Companies Should Have a Presence on All Major Platforms July 24, 2008 1:38 AM
- Top 10 Concepts That Every Software Engineer Should Know July 22, 2008 8:21 PM
- The Future of Computer Applications: Help Me or Entertain Me July 17, 2008 5:00 AM
- Facebook Platform: The Fanfare Revisited July 15, 2008 11:35 AM
- iPhone: The New Personal Computer July 14, 2008 1:39 AM
- Can Browser Add-ons Be Businesses? July 9, 2008 2:14 AM
- Does Microsoft + Powerset Beat Google? July 3, 2008 1:39 AM
- Is Email In Danger? July 1, 2008 11:13 PM
- People in Tech: Mike Dunn, VP Interactive Media, Hearst June 26, 2008 6:50 PM
- People in Tech: Brad Feld, Foundry Group June 17, 2008 10:00 PM
- Skydeck: Will It Be The First Billion Dollar Social Graph Company? June 11, 2008 5:40 PM
- People in Tech: Andraz Tori, CTO/Co-Founder of Zemanta June 2, 2008 9:29 PM
- Semantic Search: The Myth and Reality May 29, 2008 2:15 PM
- Freebase: Dispelling The Skepticism May 28, 2008 10:10 PM
- Making the Web Searchable: The Story of SearchMonkey May 27, 2008 8:29 PM
- SemTech Panel: Investor Opportunities and Pitfalls May 22, 2008 2:27 PM
- SemTech Panel: Taking Semantic Technology to the Masses May 20, 2008 8:27 PM
- The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces May 14, 2008 11:23 PM
- Twitter and the Architectural Challenges of Life Streaming Applications May 12, 2008 4:00 PM
- Faster - Why Constant Stress is Part of Our Future April 24, 2008 9:01 PM
- The American Dream: 17 Years of Engineering Software April 13, 2008 4:23 PM
- A Guide to Business Development 2.0 April 10, 2008 2:22 AM
- Top 10 Traits of a Rockstar Software Engineer April 8, 2008 12:50 AM
- Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies March 25, 2008 3:20 PM
- 5 Ways To Have Fun with Twitter When You're Bored March 19, 2008 12:38 AM
- 12 Future Apps For Your iPhone March 12, 2008 10:08 PM
- Why Apple Will Dominate Next Gen Computing March 9, 2008 9:00 PM
- The Coming Death of Paper as an Information Storage Medium March 6, 2008 2:40 AM
- Beware of Freeconomics February 26, 2008 1:43 PM
- Rethinking Recommendation Engines February 25, 2008 1:37 AM
- Are YOU Replaceable? February 19, 2008 8:45 PM
- Reaching for the Sky Through The Compute Clouds February 18, 2008 1:20 PM
- Reuters Wants The World To Be Tagged February 6, 2008 1:47 AM
- How YOU Can Make the Web More Structured January 30, 2008 10:48 PM
- The "Work From Home" Generation January 24, 2008 10:27 AM
- The Danger of Free January 16, 2008 5:19 AM
- Semantic Web: What Is The Killer App? January 9, 2008 10:22 PM
- 15 Questions for an Early Facebook User January 7, 2008 3:20 AM
- 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More! December 27, 2007 12:05 AM
- Good Things Take Time: New Tech Doesn't Go Mainstream Overnight December 12, 2007 8:02 AM
- The Evolution of Personal Publishing December 11, 2007 12:00 AM
- The Digg Effect December 6, 2007 1:45 AM
- Facebook and The Myth Of Contextual Advertising December 4, 2007 2:07 AM
- There's No Money In The Long Tail of the Blogosphere November 28, 2007 1:05 AM
- R/WW Thanksgiving: Thank You Google for Open Social (Or, Why Open Social Really Matters) November 22, 2007 8:39 AM
- The Rise Of Hyperlocal Information November 21, 2007 1:20 AM
- Who is Blogging and Why? Is the Blogosphere in a Digestion Phase? November 15, 2007 12:00 AM
- The Social Enterprise - What Works, and What Doesn't November 6, 2007 12:40 AM
- Amazon Dynamo: The Next Generation Of Virtual Distributed Storage October 30, 2007 10:50 PM
- Should Google Be Afraid Of Facebook? October 25, 2007 5:01 AM
- Java: A Retrospective October 19, 2007 12:00 AM
- The Future of Software Development October 16, 2007 1:28 PM
- The Structured Web - A Primer October 10, 2007 11:35 AM
- Adam vs. Eve: Does The Blogosphere Have A Gender? October 9, 2007 8:41 AM
- The New Rules Of Technology VC October 4, 2007 1:16 PM
- Wired vs Wired: Evolution of a Technology Magazine October 2, 2007 5:03 PM
- Facebook: What If More Is Less? September 27, 2007 7:53 PM
- Social Bookmarking Faceoff Reloaded September 26, 2007 4:00 AM
- Top-Down: A New Approach to the Semantic Web September 20, 2007 4:22 PM
- Semantic Web: Difficulties with the Classic Approach September 19, 2007 8:20 PM
- Social Graph: Concepts and Issues September 12, 2007 2:05 AM
- Google Custom Search: Setting The Bar For Vertical Search Engines September 6, 2007 11:27 AM
- MySpace: Hot or Not? September 4, 2007 1:13 PM
- Technorati: Can The Good Guys Still Finish First? August 30, 2007 2:27 AM
- Will Podcasting Survive? August 28, 2007 10:02 AM
- The Digestion Phase: How We Got Here And Where We Are Going Next August 22, 2007 9:45 AM
- Text and Banner Ads on Amazon: Has the World Gone Mad? August 20, 2007 9:56 AM
- How JavaScript is Slowing Down the Web (And What To Do About It) August 15, 2007 1:18 AM
- Privacy and Personalization: From Clickstream to Targeted Advertising August 10, 2007 1:41 PM
- Rethinking 'Crossing The Chasm' August 6, 2007 10:19 PM
- Wine.com Offers RSS-based API July 31, 2007 11:57 AM
- Towards the Attention Economy: Will Attention Silos Ever Open Up? July 30, 2007 6:35 AM
- The Top 10 Things I Wish My iPhone Had Today July 26, 2007 5:23 AM
- The Top 10 Things I Love About My iPhone July 24, 2007 11:15 AM
- How Apple Can Win The PC Battle July 16, 2007 3:59 PM
- The Evolution of Web Widgets: From Self-Expression to Media Companies July 11, 2007 12:44 PM
- The Physics of iPhone July 9, 2007 2:46 AM
- Digital Life vs Life Digital: Our Inevitable Digital Future July 5, 2007 4:00 AM
- Why iPhone May Really Matter July 2, 2007 2:30 AM
- Standard URLs - Proposal for a Web with Less Search June 28, 2007 7:23 PM
- Spock - Vertical Search Done Right June 26, 2007 6:10 AM
- Continuous Partial Attention: Software & Solutions June 20, 2007 7:34 PM
- Random House - Widgets and Web Services Done Right June 18, 2007 2:24 AM
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