May
20
As he does every year Adam Savage of Mythbuster fame made his grand appearance at the Maker Faire Bay Area, the great gathering of inventors, engineers, artists and other people who love to make things. This year Savage tackled why he and the 50,000 or so people who showed up at the faire spend time, …
May
18
As of yesterday afternoon, the Talk That “TED Won’t Show You” had about 300 views on YouTube. Today it is up to more than 164,000–such is the power of the real new media: passionate viewers who have no trouble taking ownership of content and speaking up if they disagree with the media maker. In March …
May
18
If you’re anywhere in Japan, the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, or on the West Coast of the United States, you may be in for a visual treat on May 20th (or May 21st in the Eastern Hemisphere.) Residents on the West Coast in particular will enjoy the first solar eclipse since 1994 and the last …
May
17
You’d expect a poor person to say: When the rich take credit for creating jobs, they are like “squirrels taking credit for evolution.” But, in fact, it’s out of the mouth of venture capitalist Nick Hanauer, who was an early investor in Amazon and is a rich, very rich man. In March he gave a …
May
17
On the eve of Facebook’s much anticipated IPO, we can’t help but look ahead and wonder which technology firm will invent the next transformative platform. That’s why we’re excited about the 14th Annual Top 10 Tech Trends on May 22, hosted by the Churchill Club– Silicon Valley’s premier business and technology forum. At last year’s event, technology …
May
17
How important are small businesses to the economy of the United States? Consider these figures from the U.S. Small Business Administration: not only do they represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms, they employ half of all private sector employees, pay 44 percent of the total U.S. private payroll, and have generated 65 percent of …
May
16
Silicon Valley never seems to learn. It’s always looking for the next big thing that will change the world and everyone’s bank accounts. The latest? Facebook and its Friday IPO, which is expected to value the social media company at $16 billion, making it one of the largest IPOs in history. Investors want in on …
May
16
This weekend on FORA.tv, we present one of our most popular live events: the Maker Faire Bay Area 2012. There really isn’t anything quite like it: Put together a bunch of mind-bending inventors, erudite, but slightly crazy, engineers, arts-and-crafts creative geniuses and people who consume technology the way the rest of us eat snacks, and …
May
16
A few weeks ago we covered the story of Chen Guangcheng, the blind human rights activist who became embroiled in a cat-and-mouse game with Chinese authorities and created a minor diplomatic incident when he sought refuge at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. The good news from that story is Chen was eventually granted permission to …
May
15
Is the United States system of higher education among best in the world? The answer is a resounding yes, at least according to a recent analysis by Universitas 21 (via GOOD), which gave the American system the top ranking in the world ahead of Sweden, Canada, Finland and Denmark. Universitas 21, a global network for research …