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About Alex Iskold

Alex Iskold is a Feature Writer for ReadWriteWeb and a Business Advisor. 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.


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07/16/09: The Future of Search: Social Relevancy Rank (30)
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)
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