June was a hectic month for me. I attended no less than three “conference-type” events, that had me either in transit or altogether outside of my fair city for 18 days. I learned a lot about what I needed to have along with me for the ride, and I also learned that my iPad (while far better at handling what I needed this time than last year), wasn’t entirely up to the task....
Take off your jackets and buy some flip flops because summer is officially upon us. The season of white wine, bike rides, trips to the beach and rooftop BBQs means you need sunglasses, wireless tunage and cameras to capture all the fun, not to mention robotic lawnmowners and sweet new pinball machines. Without a new iPhone announced this June, we’ve rounded up an epic list of must-have, rad gadgets for summer 2011....
There are lots of misconceptions about Twitter, Facebook, and social networking in general. I tend to get involved in discussions with old (media) folks who always seem to look for reasons to make it easier to just ignore the whole thing. I don’t shy away fromthese discussions, of course, but sometimes the arguments these people use start to sound repetitive. Here are a few misconceptions I regularly hear: On Twitter everybody talks about what they had for lunch or how they are taking a shitThis is one of the most persistent misconceptions you hear from people who haven’t actually looked at it....
Do you read every single “Terms of Service” you come across before clicking “I Agree” to? If you’re anything like me, the answer is no. In fact, I’ve agreed to hundreds since I first started using AOL 14 years ago, but I haven’t read one. Should we be more careful? I try to align myself with respectable websites — using services that many others use. And this leaves me with a sort of “someone else will catch it if something’s wrong” mentality....
Yesterday saw twenty tech startups pitch their products to assembled press and investors from around Europe and beyond at theSeedcamp Weekdemo day. It was an event that followed the announcement ofbig newsabout the future of the investment fund and mentoring program. Partnerships with Dave McClure’s 500 Startups and AngelList were unveiled among a bevvy of other partnerships and expansions. I was at the Demo Day, which took place at at Imperial College, London, to watch the presentations ....
