Steve Rosenbaum

These groups of thought leaders are blogging, tweeting, meeting, and plugging in to social media with innovation and enthusiasm that in many ways surpasses many of the media organizations that I know well.

One thing is certain. Politicians throughout the democratic world are pushing for stronger censorship and surveillance by Internet companies to stop the theft of intellectual property.

It used to be that company communication was all top down. Today, things are changing fast -- as the tools and networks for communication are broken wide open.

The idea of SXSW as a metaphor for the growth and overwhelming abundance of the web is more than apt. No matter how you cut it, the volume of panels, talks, conversations, parties, gatherings, bands, and food trucks is hard to manage.

Each year at TED, there is a theme that emerges in the four day conference in Long Beach. This year -- I came away with a clear picture of a change that is about to burst out of the labs and into our daily lives. Get ready, we're about to arrive in the world of Robots.

You know that feeling on a clear blue sky day. The air is crisp, the sun is shining. Everything seems right in the world. Well, on the Web - it isn't...

There are pages and pages of these. I'm not going to name the chain, because I hope that as a careful customer you're searching Yelp, CitySearch, Google Reviews -- or any of the many sites that invite consumer feedback.

Over the past three years New York has shifted from being a sleepy backwater of tech innovation to a red hot center of startup activity.

For as long as anyone can remember, Google's video personality has been deeply bipolar. On one hand, there's YouTube, the massive consumer video stor...

Honestly, I've seen a lot of cool video stuff in the past year. Amazing social software. Cool new ad solutions. And content creators who are breaking ...

For as long as I can remember, anyone with a passion for building a tech company from the ground up would have to head west. Silicon Valley was where the money, talent, and exits were. But what do startup founders really need?

The thing Mary Meeker's Web 2.0 presentation nailed was just where the U.S. is on the world stage -- knocking us down from our self-serving perch of being at the cutting edge. In fact, we're lagging behind.

Millennials have grown up with a 24/7 news cycle and reality TV. They know the power of branding and publicity. Every day they act as their own digital publicists, curating and monitoring the 'me' brand.

While we weren't paying much attention, Steve Jobs may well have left behind as his most world-changing legacy -- the very first consumer robot. And chances are, you've got one of Jobs' newfangled robots in your pocket right now.

As the web has gone from the edge of our world to the electronic center of how we live, spammers have taken up new evil ways clog not just our inboxes, but our lives.

It used to be the stuff of science fiction, the idea that we could 'cheat death' and live well past what we now think of as a natural human lifespan. ...

Sao Paulo's Latin motto is Non dvcor, dvco, which translates as "I am not led, I lead." Leading in digital seems very much part of the culture of the place.

I've been reading all the various polls and news reports. Everyone seems to agree that 'it's the economy stupid' to borrow a phrase, but I can't help ...

Rather than a book or a film, I made the somewhat controversial decision to create an App for the iPad to commemorate 9/11.

After almost a decade, Google is somewhat sheepishly admitting that humans are, well, useful after all.