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Interesting investment by Google Ventures in a company called Recorded Future, a wonderful play on verb tenses and words. The company is a "temporal and predictive analysis engine." That just sounds cool. Google is co-investing with the CIA's investment arm. That's interesting, no?...

Every day I spend an hour or two curating a set of links that I find provocative, useful, or important, adding a few lines of commentary to boot. It's called Signal, and you can consume it in three ways - as an email newsletter (sign up on the Signal Home...

I'm proud of the team that put the CM Summit together, and this reel. Well done folks!...

For all 186K of you loverly RSS readers, here are the past five Signals: Friday Signal: Is Apple Evil? Is the Web Over? Is Privacy Dead? Is This Thing On?! Thursday Signal: Why I Love My Job, Again. Weds. Signal: The Numbers Tell The Story Tuesday Signal: I Got Yer...

I thought it meant to search! Apparently, in this context, it means "to drop Microsoft Office and use our software!" I almost feel like a relic pointing out the obvious, but when I got my latest paper-based Fortune magazine (yes, I do subscribe to a few still), I found...

Tomorrow I will be at the Geo Loco conference in SF, interviewing Fred Wilson, partner at Union Square Ventures, investor in Twitter, Zynga, Etsy, Tumblr, Foursquare, and many others, and general good guy. Fred is great on stage, and we have a lot to talk about, given our mutual interests....

Who remembers the utter gold rush that was the Facebook Platform back in 2007, back when everyone, and honestly, really, EVERYONE, in the industry was busy answering the question "What's Your Facebook Platform strategy?" Well I sure do. At FM, we had meetings to address this question, meetings driven...

The media really, really, really loves to write about Apple and the iPhone these days. It reminds me of Google in 2004, when the media fell in love with the concept of search. Besides the antennae story, which I find hopelessly over reported, the latest iPhone rhapsody has been...

In this overwraught essay, a novelist yearns for a time before addiction to technology slowly drained us of our humanity. I don't buy it. We can both be connected and be fulfilled. We can stop, disconnect, read a book, make love without checking our devices for updates. And we can...

I've written before about my relationship with Foursquare, and I'm sure I will again. I've tweeted my complaint that the "friend" mechanism is poorly instrumented (in various ways), and I should note that this is certainly not just a Foursquare problem (more on "Friendstrimentation" shortly). But today I wanted to...

For all 185K of you RSS readers out there, here are the past week or so of Signals: Monday Signal: Finally, a Slow Weekend. Sort Of. Friday Signal: Who Needs Basketball? We Have Signal. Thursday Signal: Mogul Mania Weds. Signal: More Noise, Same Signal Tuesday Signal: A Fourth of News...

(image ) I just reviewed this presentation from Paul Adams, research lead for social at Google (embedded below). He works on Buzz and YouTube, and presumably, whatever is next from Google, including the rumored "Google Me." His presentation is good, and worthy of your time if you are interested...

I'm sure you've noticed, but there's a major battle underway for the hearts and minds of what we, in this industry, broadly call "developers." Often the term is used quite strictly, to mean actual coders who build actual software-driven applications, services, or websites. Other times the term is more loosely...

....for those of you reading Searchblog in RSS and not watching ze Tweets....here are the Signals that I do over at FM's site. Weds. Signal: It’s a Good Day to Read The News Tuesday Signal: Location, Location, Location Monday Signal: Welcome to Summer, Now Get to Work You can sign...

Last weekend the news was conjecture about Facebook doing web search, today, the news is conjecture about Google doing social networks. All of this has been sparked by two well known Valley guys opining on samesaid...Kevin Rose, CEO of Digg, tweeted that Google was working on a "Google Me"...