Tweet Rocky Barbanica and I visited Facebook’s headquarters today and interviewed a bunch of people for the book “Age of Context” that I’m writing with Shel Israel. What’s the age of context? Five radically expanding technologies/data types. 1. Sensors. 2. Wearable computing. 3. Big Databases. 4. Social network behavior. 5. Location. What will that bring [...]

Tweet Yesterday I went through hundreds of startups’ Facebook pages. Why? I built a new list of hundreds of startups. You should subscribe to it. I also added a lot of investors onto my startup investor list. Subscribe to that one, too, and you’ll know what the money in the industry is thinking. Finally I [...]

Tweet Six companies. If the other 80 companies that will be born on Tuesday are anything like these six, we are in for quite a week in Silicon Valley startup land. Here’s a look at the four companies, two of which visited me in my Half Moon Bay, California, house on Friday to talk about [...]

Tweet First, the short version of today’s news. Shel Israel and I are collaborating on a book, titled, The Age of Context: How it Will Change Your Life and Work. The long version: A new world is coming. It’s scary. Freaky. Over the freaky line, if you will. But it is coming. Investors like Ron [...]

Tweet Tonight I’m getting message after message that friend after friend has joined Highlight (the photo above is of Paul Davison showing it off to some of its first users back in December on the day it launched into a closed beta). What is Highlight? Well, two weeks ago, in the Next Web, I named [...]

Tweet I might as well have titled this “Hacker News vs Marketers.” Or “Hacker News vs Bloggers.” Or “jerks vs nice people.” But I never participate in Hacker News for a few reasons and I just was faced with these reasons again when I read the responses there to my blog post yesterday. 1. Programmers [...]