10 posts and columns on behavior

Roadshow: CEO Pincus Not Selling Shares in Upcoming Zynga IPO

in News on November 29, 2011 at 10:01 pm PT

While he has recently been portrayed as Mr. Potter of Silicon Valley, it looks like the online gaming leader will not get greedy in the IPO.
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Videogames as Free-Speech Issue

in News on November 1, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Videogame designers at ZeniMax Media Inc.’s Bethesda Softworks destroyed a virtual U.S. Capitol, Jefferson Memorial and other landmarks in the Mature-rated “Fallout 3,” which depicts the ruins of post-apocalyptic Washington. They didn’t bother to obliterate the U.S. Supreme Court. But in the real world, that’s where the $10.5 billion videogame industry faces its greatest threat.

VC Ben Horowitz Takes Aim at HP Critics (Are You Listening, Larry and Jack?)

in News on October 8, 2010 at 4:32 pm PT

Today, in a sharply worded post titled “In Defense of Standards, Ethics, and Honest Financial Reporting at Hewlett-Packard,” prominent venture capitalist Ben Horowitz took to his blog to shoot back at the plethora of critics of the Hewlett-Packard board for their conduct related to the controversial jettisoning of CEO Mark Hurd. Let us just say, the longtime business partner of HP board member Marc Andreessen did not mince words.

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In Defense of Standards, Ethics, and Honest Financial Reporting at Hewlett-Packard

in News on October 8, 2010 at 4:22 pm PT

Recently, my old company Hewlett-Packard has been in the news–and not in a good way. I’ve been watching the coverage from the sidelines up to this point, but felt increasingly compelled to join the conversation and share my point of view. So here goes.

Analyst: IPad a Want, Then a Need

in News on October 2, 2010 at 8:52 am PT

If netbook sales are in decline, Apple’s iPad isn’t to blame–not yet, anyway. According to a new survey from NPD, only 13 percent of iPad owners bought the device in lieu of a PC. For the other 87 percent, it was an incremental purchase, a luxury purchase.

So Much for OpenID–Google Friend Connect Gets Twitter, Facebook Connect Gets Yahoo

in News on December 3, 2009 at 5:01 am PT

Ever use Google Friend Connect? No? Every heard of it? No? Well, you may soon. If you use Twitter. This morning, Google said it is integrating the microblogging service with Friend Connect, a federated identity platform that allows credentials from social networks to be used on nonsocial sites.
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Microsoft’s Bing Problem: Google Is Just Fine

in Media on July 14, 2009 at 4:33 am PT

JP Morgan has good news for Microsoft: Its massive ad campaign for Bing is working just fine. The bad news for Microsoft: For most people, Google is already working just fine.
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Congress Readies an “Opt-In” Privacy Bill, and the Web Industry Cringes

in Media on June 23, 2009 at 1:41 pm PT

Here comes the battle the online ad business has been dreading: Congress is drawing up a bill that would require users to sign up to let advertisers track their online behavior–and, if you believe online publishers, more or less destroy the online ad business.
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Behind Sexting Survey, Debate Over How to Poll Teens

in News on April 8, 2009 at 10:34 am PT

It seemed like more troubling evidence that kids these days engage in behavior they wouldn’t want to write home about. Researchers recently found that one in five teenagers have shared nude or seminude photos of themselves by cellphone or online. That statistic has become a fixture in articles about “sexting” and its social and legal implications. But that number may be inflated, because the same teenagers who have engaged in such behavior could be the ones most likely to say they have done so in an online poll.