I woke up this morning to Northeastern sues Google over patent. Northeasten University and Jarg Corp have sued Google over a patent granted Professor Kenneth Baclawski in 1997. According t

You hear a lot about successful companies on most VC blogs. It’s a lot easier to talk about success than it is to talk about failure. Several weeks ago, The Enthusiast

Even though I thought Season 6 of 24 was a dud, I am still devastated by the news that 24 is on hold this season due to the writers strike.

If you have been following Defrag from a distance, Sean Ammirati at Read/WriteWeb has an awesome summary up titled Five Themes From the Defrag Conference. The Attention Economy Next-Level Discovery [&

That got your attention, right? Actually I am in a place called “The Palace” – a hotel on New Montgomery Street that I always think of as “the Sheraton Commander” [

Every now and then I read a book that is so delicious that I savor it. Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union was one of those books. I finished it over

If you aren’t at Defrag but want to follow along at home, there are two solid summaries up on the web. Jeff Nolan (NewsGator): Live From Defrag! Dan Farber (ZDNet):

Debbie Weil grabbed me at the New New Internet show and made me answer a question about blogging. Even though it is only 60 seconds long, I did manage to

I’ve often said in the past that I’m not a conference guy so I recognize the irony of me helping organize a conference. Eric Norlin did all the work and

On the way up the elevator this morning to the Defrag conference, Alex Iskold of Adaptive Blue and I were talking about Open Social. Or rather – we were whining