Password Mania

We can solve the problems of the internet but creating a credible and reliable and rememberable password is beyond us. I could create a system of course but every place is different. I feel less human than i should because i cant remember a bloody password. You?

Steve Jobs and the art of the curt email

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New details from a court case show he was indeed the master. FORTUNE — Steve Jobs’ emails. Direct, pithy, and rare, they came to take on an oracular quality during his tenure as Apple’s chief executive. His responses to users’ requests and complaints about everything from the poor reception on some iPhone models to waterlogged…

Is Twitter heading toward a future in video?

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Everybody and their mother has attempted to create “Instagram for video,” and it’s possible Twitter is joining the club. CEO Dick Costolo sent a tweet Wednesday morning that included a short video that auto-plays when you click to expand his tweet, raising some questions about the company’s intended future in relation to video: Steak tartare…

Facebook’s first intern leads small-business revolution

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Whether they mean to or not, all small businesses from tech startups in the center of Silicon Valley to quaint cupcake shops in South Carolina create digital ripples. Radius has raised $12.4 million to measure these ripples and turn them into actionable sales insights. Radius crawls the Internet for information about small businesses. The engine…

Love the SMB focus. Key clients understand this. Not sure if i agree whole hog on the ripple affect. what say you?

Futureful’s smart content discovery app hits the iPad in the U.S.

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Back in November we told you about Futureful, a Finnish startup that’s trying to create a semantically-driven content discovery tool — kind of like StumbleUpon but smarter. Well, as of now, iPad users in the U.S. can try it out for themselves. The company, which describes itself as “a group of humanists and computer scientists,”…

Super important for any publisher, content type and so on. Huge problem for great quality new brands. I’m going to check this out.

Hey, Twitter, Hawaii Five-0 wants you to pick the killer

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Much has been made in the last few years of how social media has affected the television experience — specifically, how Twitter and other networks have created incentive for real-time viewing in a world where 45 percent of American households have DVRs. But not every person is live-tweeting every show; hence, gimmicks like the upcoming…

These smells of bad tv promotion. That said, give em a little credit for trying. Twitter is a media company huh?!!

Pay TV will shrink for first time in history, study says cable watching peaked in 2011

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It’s finally happening. The number of Americans who pay for cable-like TV products is declining, says a research forecast that claims subscriptions peaked at nearly 101 million in 2011 but will decline to less than 95 million by 2017. The stats come by way of research group TDG which presented the findings in this chart:…

OHHHHH…very interesting. What say you almighty cable TV?

The Moneyball strategy is the future for venture capital firms

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This is a guest post by venture capitalist Matt Oguz Traditional venture capital invests with a “gut” feeling approach, and as VentureBeat’s Christina Farr recently put it, “Relying on gut feeling simply isn’t good enough anymore”. Investors suffer from a number of cognitive biases. The biggest, most powerful and most dangerous bias in Silicon Valley…

Trent Reznor’s music service ‘Daisy’ gets a CEO and should launch in late 2013

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Iconic music man Trent Reznor’s new Beats By Dre-backed streaming music service should launch sometime late this year. The music service, which has the girlie-sounding name Daisy, is the first attempt by Reznor to reinvent the streaming music marketplace, which Pandora, Spotify, Rdio, and a few others dominate. Reznor has a good track record when…

Yeah, congrats to Ian Rogers. Rockstar!

Why I want Aereo’s gutsy streaming TV service to succeed

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Aereo lets you watch free, over-the-air local TV streamed on the Internet. It also lets you record content for later viewing, like a DVR in the cloud. The Barry Diller-backed company, which is already operational in New York City, announced yesterday that it had raised an additional $38 million to expand its Internet-based TV service…

This would break the model eh’ use a real internet provider for streaming and netflix, amazon, etc for your content, over the air for local broadcast and then you let go of those monolithic cable providers? who is in?