Tech

Stalking Your Friends with Facebook Messenger

Edit: At Facebook’s request I have again deactivated the *official* version of the extension. Furthermore, Facebook has deactivated location sharing from the desktop webpage so the extension will not work.

Part 3/8: From Idea to Prototype

Turning a Hardware Idea into Hardware

Talent Hunt

Lessons learned about finding the right people, from >80 hires in startups.

Wrangling Gigantic Tables in MySQL — Universal Language

The Biggest Opportunities in Virtual Reality

Stop what you’re doing and start one of these companies.

Making By Breaking: Why Taking Things Apart Is Essential to Making Them Work

What I learned Seeing Mark Cuban — his top 3 Business Tips for Success

Your apps could (should) be smarter.

It’s no secret our world is exploding with data at an…

Look Mom, No Hands!

What about that feeling when someone else is driving for you?! Or no-one is driving for you?!

Customer Interface Evolution

As technology has evolved during the past decades, it has greatly affected the way we interact with our media. In fact, media and technology tend to have a tight relationship based on mutual needs: technology needs media to evolve in order to create new interactive models, and…

FORMER SFIST EDITOR, BROCK KEELING, THINKS THE WORD ‘DIGITAL JOURNALISM’ IS SILLY

So What After the Mobile Era? (Mobile in Focus #3)

Looking backwards it seems relatively easy to spot the trend that pushed us towards mobile, with 3 strong drivers: a dramatic fall in communication…

Is (was) Facebook ready for its IPO? or Too Late?

As Facebook prepares its final run into its IPO (the company is looking at a 90–100 Bn dollar valuation at a $28-$35 value per share), the prospectus let us into some of their very interesting and well-kept numbers. Inevitably their impact is…

High-Tech Companies and Stock Performance

It’s becoming very common to speak wonders of a company because of its short-term stock…

Are We (where we) in the Middle of a Social Media Bubble (in 2012)?

I feel this is going to be a tough sell for everybody. The two things I read most about are technology and social media, and it might be the combination of both that explain this phenomenon we are seeing in social…

iOS: Racing towards 1Bn devices

The tech wars for our attention — and our pockets — have silently begun without our noticing it. Companies have different strategies based on their relative strengths and overall intent. Microsoft, for instance, has realised that PCs have become largely commoditised and…

This Week In Tech: Me & My Shadow Edition

Obvious Ventures makes a not-so-obvious joke, Jeff Bezos…

Interesting Times — No.16

Innovations & techs on the web this week, filtered through an enterprise services lens.

Capabilities and approaches

It weighs less than a MacBook Pro, thinnest TV ever.

2012 is the Year of Mobile Explosion (Mobile in Focus #1)

Last year (2011), and for the first time ever, shipments of smartphones overtook shipments of PCs. As smartphones become more powerful and mimic…

Relaxation Aid — Guided Meditation Video

If you work in tech, or if you simply own a mobile device with a data connection, you may find the daily information deluge overwhelming. When the anxiety-provoking stress from constant personal and professional digital feeds mounts enough to produce moments…

My first post

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