Entrepreneurship, Current Affairs and Tech

I'm always looking for projects for the summer, especially ones I can do in Half Moon Bay, so when I heard about my friend's friend writing for Demand Media, I decided to apply. ( In case you don't know me yet, I've been a writer for thirty-five years, published four books, contribute regularly to four […]

To find out how i finally got clued in to Facebook’s assault on privacy, you must stop by Tyler Romeo’s blog (http://parent5446.blogspot.com) to see why he deactivated his Facebook account. Normally I don’t care much about privacy The essentials of my life are already known — the five marriages, four careers, multiple love affairs, hip […]

See this chart? This is the work of some brilliant people trying to tackle a big business question: does social marketing really work?  And its corollaries: if it does, how does it work, how can I measure it, and how much time/talent/treasure should I spend on it? Jeremiah Owyang, a good friend of mine who […]

If anyone owns the cloud, it is Mark Benioff. And yet, as recently as 2003, Benioff was begging Tony Perkins to let him  come to the very first AlwaysOn conference. According to Tony, Benioff showed up wearing  a button that read “No Software.” Less than a decade later, he is the CEO of a  publicly traded company with […]