Voices

Glass Grovels (Comic)

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
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Look Ma, No Hands! How to Post Your Google Glass Videos to YouTube.

“Are you doing video right now?”
“Yeah, dude.”
“You should stop.”
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Viral Video: “Lucky Ones” Tech Mashup for Hurricane Sandy

Sing it, Silicon Valley.
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Klout Revises Its Algorithm — But Fear Not, It Says Most Scores Will Go Up

The controversial Klout is making an effort to address some critics by improving the accuracy and relevancy of its scores.
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How Will Facebook’s Zuckerberg Adapt to Working in the Public Eye?

Brandee Barker, Anil Dash, Jason Hirschhorn and Robert Scoble reflect on how Facebook’s shy wunderkind will perform as the head of a publicly traded company.
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Professor Frank Quattrone Talks History of Tech IPOs

Frank Quattrone admonished would-be public CEOs, “Don’t go public before you can be public,” and, “Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.”
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Greylock Goes Hollywood, Adds to WhoSay Funding

A start-up that counts megastars like Tom Hanks, Steven Tyler and Ellen DeGeneres among its active users now has a high-profile Silicon Valley investor: Greylock Partners.
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It’s Called Google Propeller and It’s Aimed at Flipboard (and Facebook, Too, Natch)

Whhhheeeeeeeee! Up, up in the sky, its Google’s Flipboard killer, which also might strafe Facebook, too!
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News Byte

Scooby-Don’t Doesn’t Need Your Stinkin’ Help, Google+

Robert Scoble, a.k.a. my favorite wacky character in Silicon Valley, is asking Google+ to take him off its suggested user list. In a post on the search giant’s social networking effort — on which he is a popular figure — the man I have nicknamed Scooby-Don’t wrote, among other reasons: “Any list that has Paris Hilton but not so many other deserving people on it isn’t a list I want to be on.” Rut-roh!

QOTD: If Palm Could, Then Maybe HP Couldn’t?

“Palm did what Nokia, RIM, and Microsoft couldn’t: Build a better experience than Apple.”

Robert Scoble, January 8, 2009

IPad Bandit Terrorizes Gotham!