Aaron Greenspan, 10.05.2009
CEO, Think Computer Corporation
There is no cliché I hear more, and that I hate more, than the vague, poorly-defined and generally ill-conceived notion that "execution" is more important than "the idea."
Jose Antonio Vargas, 11.10.2009
Technology and Innovations editor, Huffington Post
It's time for young journalists and, just as important, young technologists to show how news is expanding and being re-defined in a world under Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
Shelly Palmer, 09.26.2009
President, National Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences, NY
Computer security company McAfee announced that searches for Jessica Biel led to more cases of spyware, malware and viruses being added t...
Shelly Palmer, 09.25.2009
President, National Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences, NY
The Pirate Bay was taken offline. The torrent sharing network was shut down yesterday by local Swedish authorities yesterday, as Global ...
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler, 08.23.2009
Entertainment lawyer; Professor of American Studies at Cornell
The soft pornmeister of yuppy nonfiction, Ben Mezrich, author of Bringing Down the House, is back to tell the story of the founding of the hugely successful social network, Facebook.
Disgrasian, 08.16.2009
Diana Nguyen and Jen Wang are the creators of DISGRASIAN.com
Other than getting laid by an Asian chick in a bathroom stall at a "nice club in Cambridge.." -- Zuckerberg's life comes across as a rather joyless verging on meaningless grind.
Shelly Palmer, 06.21.2009
President, National Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences, NY
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he plans to take his case with the Entertainment Software Alliance over the sal...
Aisha Tyler, 05.09.2009
Actress, comedian, and author
Thankfully for recovering childhood nerds like me, geeks have recently, finally, come into vogue. Witness the ambivalent, doughy sexiness of a Seth Rogen, or the oddly attractive post-pubescent cool of a Michael Cera
Michael Wolff, 05.02.2009
Author of Newser.com's Off the Grid column
There is one incontrovertible indicator at technology companies that need cash and have no business plan: the departure of the CFO.
Raymond Leon Roker, 04.29.2009
Publisher and co-founder of URB
Sunday's NY Times piece reminds us that in this ever connected and status obsessed online ecosystem, you have to constantly be vigilant about your connections and information.
Chris Goldberg, 04.24.2009
Now that Facebook's latest incarnation has had a chance to sink in it's clear the overwhelming majority disapprove. I hate to say it, but I agree with them this time. The new layout does suck.
Charles Warner, 03.28.2009
Charles Warner is an active blogger at Media Curmudgeon.com and teaches at The New School
The current issue of FORTUNE (March 2) has a smiling Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's 24-year-old founder, on the cover. The business magazine obviously g...
Daniel Sinker, 03.20.2009
Journalism faculty member at Columbia College, Chicago
What's got billionare Mark Zuckerberg so blue? Just that his service is claiming perpetual rights to all its 175 million users' content, even if you kill your account.
Shelly Palmer, 01.05.2009
President, National Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences, NY
AT&T plans to layoff 12,000 employees. The telco giant claims that a decline in landlines and a lack of growth in broadband subscribers ha...
Nick Revell, 01.12.2009
Don't know if anyone else has Facebook friends in Darfur. But you send that invitation out to them, and do any of them join? Not one. Instead it's "Who will OD first? Amy, Britney, Lindsay or Paris."
Aaron Greenspan, 05.20.2008
CEO, Think Computer Corporation
What I found in the Time 100 list was another manifestation of an insulated editorial mindset that pervades many media outlets today: that consumers are dumb.
Yvette Kantrow, 03.28.2008
Executive editor for The Deal.
Last week's first sign of the apocalypse: The New York Times' decision to tease, on the front page of its business section, a tiny story inside on a m...
Ari Melber, 03.28.2008
Correspondent for The Nation, Politico contributor, www.arimelber.com
Growing up online, young people assume their inner circle knows their business. The "new privacy" is about controlling how many people know--not if anyone knows.
Shana Ting Lipton, 03.28.2008
L.A. scribe
On Facebook, I felt like Hester Prynn in cyberia; my scarlet letters branding me with my political proclivities.
Shelly Palmer, 03.28.2008
President, National Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences, NY
It's one thing to ask someone to join your promotional army. Conscripting them without their consent is something else entirely.