6 posts and columns on Royal Society

Copiers vs. Innovators

What’s happening is that we might, in fact, be at a time in our history where we’re being domesticated by these great big societal things, such as Facebook and the Internet. We’re being domesticated by them, because fewer and fewer and fewer of us have to be innovators to get by. And so, in the cold calculus of evolution by natural selection, at no greater time in history than ever before, copiers are probably doing better than innovators. Because innovation is extraordinarily hard.

– Mark Pagel, fellow of the Royal Society and professor of evolutionary biology, in conversation with Edge.org

Burkle to Leave Yahoo Board–Is Bartz Solidifying Control (And Is Bostock Next)?

in News on February 16, 2010 at 1:53 pm PT

Like victims in the thriller, “Ten Little Indians,” the directors of Yahoo involved in its Microsoft takeover debacle are moving off its board. Today, it’s billionaire businessman Ron Burkle doing the leaving, after serving since 2001, when he was brought onto the Internet giant’s board by former CEO Terry Semel. He’s the third director to depart since CEO Carol Bartz took over a little more than a year ago.

Europe Redux

in News on November 21, 2007 at 6:03 pm PT

For your Thanksgiving entertainment, don’t be so American! Go abroad! See the world! BoomTown did! Here are links to the posts I have done from BoomTown’s trip to Europe–with glamorous stops in England, France and Monaco (and all the videos are below too!)–in chronological order going backward: Kara Visits the Royal Society in London Kara [...]

Kara Visits the Royal Society in London

in News on November 20, 2007 at 10:41 am PT

On the last leg of my trip to Europe to check out Web 2.0 companies, BoomTown spent the day at the Royal Society in the tony environs of St. James’s Park and Pall Mall, for some more lively discussions with more students, academics and entrepreneurs in England. The Royal Society, by the way, is an [...]

Kara Visits Cambridge University

in News on November 19, 2007 at 12:02 am PT

It’s been a successful and very interesting few days at Cambridge University, where a group of entrepreneurs, academics, execs and venture capitalists from Silicon Valley have been mingling with Cambridge students, academics and entrepreneurs. Here’s a video about the visit to Cambridge, including interviews with three cool locally based start-ups–one mobile content play called Bango; [...]