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This isn’t just a story about the future according to Josh Harris. This is a story about Josh Harris according to Josh Harris. When I was first introduced to the Internet entrepreneur, I scheduled our interview for 2pm on a Friday afternoon at the offices of Morris & King on 5th Avenue. After I watchedWe Live in Public, a documentary about his life, I emailed him and changed it to the following Tuesday at 5pm, when I knew I wouldn’t have to worry about getting back to my desk....

The future of AI depends on 9 companies — if they fail, we’re doomed G-MAFIA vs BAT: The overlords of artificial intelligence The Big Nineis a reference to nine big tech companies who have the lion’s share of what is happening in artificial intelligence. Six of them are in the United States: Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and IBM. Webb collectively calls them the G-MAFIA and describes them as “a closed supernetwork of people with similar interests and backgrounds working within one field who have a controlling influence over our futures....

Last week I was lucky enough to be invited to a entrepreneurs/VC Kiteboarding camp in Hawaii called MaiTai. Over 200 entrepreneurs, VC’s and some of the world’s best kiteboarders gathered on the Island of Maui for a week of panels, networking and most importantly; kiteboarding -a sport that is the golf for geeks in Silicon Valley. Aside from learning to kiteboard, a sport that I am now obsessed about, what emerged from my time on the trip were relationships with people who also work in the technology industry -relationships so deep, many will be life-long friends....

Who usesEvernote? Anyone with a less than perfect memory who uses a computer, smartphone or tablet can appreciate Evernote. And for the luddites with the lined notepad, you can even use Evernote usingLivescribe. A priest uses Evernote to compose his weekly sermon while one man uses it to keep track of his weekly sins. A veteran suffering from traumatic brain injury uses it daily to literally remember everything and is showing other veterans with similar disabilities how to do the same....

We recentlycoveredDutch companyKalydo‘s technology which took a Massively Mulitplayer Online Roleplaying Game (MMORPG) and turned it into an instantly playable browser-based Facebook game. Now the firm has announced it’s performing an even bigger feat by squeezing all 7GB of successful Windows gameRunes of Magicinto a fast-loading browser-based game. The game, which currently requires a hefty download before play, will be accessible from within Facebook starting from Q2 2011. The idea of converting massively multiplayer online games like Runes of Magic to run within a browser through Facebook is smart one as it opens them up to a vast market of casual gamers who would baulk at the idea of multi-gigabyte downloads....