As attendees struggled to send SMS messages and use the web to navigate the world's largest trade show, FCC Chairman Genachowski pointed out that the problem threatens more than conventioneers.
By the time my Google TV arrived, I was prepared to hate it. I powered it up expecting a digital disaster. Instead, I found a remarkably workable hardware/software combination that did everything that was promised.
Each year, as the world begins to sort out what the next 12 months will look like, the largest convention in the world gathers in Las Vegas to feast in an orgy of consumer electronics known as CES.
In 2011, it all comes together. Devices, bandwidth and consumer demand. People are moving away from old sources and passive technology, and embracing social media and social content in way that couldn't have been imagined just five years ago.
As we approach the end of the first decade of the new millennium, I took a moment to look back at 2010 to catalog the changes that have be meaningful to Web content and what will continue to influence our understanding and approach to technology over the next ten years.
What Assange is saying is that the era of secrets is over... What the Groupon decision means is that Google, for all its power and influence, isn't the only path to a successful business with a strong revenue stream and a bright future.
Ran Harnevo smiles when he tells you he isn't the "new" head of AOL Video, he's the first person to have that job. As he sees it -- it's a sign of the times that big web players see video as core to their future.
A generation of kids is growing up hardly knowing what cable is. So, I thought I might find a willing subject to talk about the world's largest "TV" service. Of course, I mean YouTube.
At first glance, David Caruso hardly seems like a micro-celebrity. After all, he's the star of the CBS hit series CSI Miami. He's got instant recognit...
A few years back - I was trying to get my Amtrak ticket out of what was then a new computer ATM ticket kiosk. For some reason, it wasn't working - and...
Today -- YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, second behind Google. And it's the third most visited website on the net, behind Google and Facebook. Chad Hurely is 33 years old.
There's a battle under way for the new living room 'box' and Apple had the early lead and a sexy price point with Apple TV 2.0. Sure critics could sa...
What's happening to journalism?
Is it "over" -- or just evolving?
One thing is certain -- many of the subjects of mainstream journalism are taking t...
Video is two distinctly different things: it's the network, and it's the software that operates on and organizes the software on the network. One is mature, the other is just arriving.
There's always been an odd disconnect between music videos and the web.
The web is interactive, personal, programmable... providing a unique experien...
In just 12 months, the first phase of the 9/11 Memorial will open -- and New Yorkers, Americans, and visitors from around the world will be able to see the Memorial pools.
If you've added data to the web, positive or negative, about a book, a movie, a restaurant, or an airline, then you've added your curatorial '2 cents' to the wisdom of the web.
The world goes through cycles. Chapters. We've just come out of the industrial age. We're peering around the corner of the digital age. And we face large problems. Energy. Poverty. Inequality. Healthcare.
From his chair as the Managing Editor of The Harvard Business Review, Alan Webber could see that there was something changing in the business world. S...