Google+'s Much Needed Shot in the Arm

bloomfield knoble has been watching Google+ with a skeptical eye since its launch last summer. As we stated at the time, where do people have room in their lives for another social network? We still stand behind that statement. It’s not like Facebook is doing anything wrong. They’re not driving away the masses, making them

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Upstaging CES

Isn’t really that hard to do anymore, mostly because of the need to get product announcements out quickly.  Anyway, if you’re heading to CES this week, one of the most common products you’ll see will be ultra books – super thin computers and yet even smaller digital devices.  As cool as many of these products

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The wisdom of crowds

I’ve written about crowd dynamics before, but I saw an article that I thought really brought it together.  So, courtesy of The Economist, “The strange but extremely valuable science of how pedestrians behave.” IMAGINE that you are French. You are walking along a busy pavement in Paris and another pedestrian is approaching from the opposite

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Hacking – Morse Code Style

I was listening to a news report this morning about a recent hack of a security firm in Texas.  Then, by coincidence, I read this article in New Scientist.  The article struck me as funny – not just because of the article, but because the news story I had heard earlier was making a big

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Top 10 breakthroughs for 2011 (Physics World style)

It seems that everybody is doing end-of-the-year lists, so I thought I would do one too (courtesy of Physics World).  I am always the first to admit that much of the science-related stuff I blog about doesn’t have a direct correlation to marketing (although I try to make it seem so), but sometimes science just

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MIT Expands Free Online Courses

I wish I would have gone to MIT.  I love everything about MIT, except maybe their lack of D1 sports.  Unfortunately, my complete disregard for high school academics apparently outweighed my disdain for social interaction (which I thought would enable me to fit in perfectly with fellow Asperger sufferers).  Anyway, over the last 10 years

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