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According to a spate of tweets from its staffers and also confirmation from sources, iconic tech blog Gigaom is closing down. I reached out to the online publication’s high-profile creator Om Malik and he declined comment for the present. “Not now dude,” he texted me. Well, then, for now, here’s what I could glean: The…
Gigaom is winding down and its assets are now controlled by the company’s lenders. It is not how you want the story of a company you founded to end. Every founder starts on a path — hopeful and optimistic, full of desire to build something that helps change the world for the better, reshape an…
New Media Disrupted: GigaOm Web Sites Suddenly Stop Publishing Posted by Tom Foremski – March 9, 2015 Above, at the recent Crunchies Awards, Om Malik (right) is told by Mike Arrington, founder of news site Techcrunch, that there’s far more money in investing in startups than there is in publishing. The management of GigaOm, the…
Hillary Clinton seems to be preparing to run for president, and the former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina may yet enter the race on the Republican side. Whoever wins the White House in 2016, today it seems easily possible that within the next decade, the U.S. will follow Britain, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, India, Israel, Thailand, Norway and dozens of…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Years ago, when Steve Jobs decided that mice needed only one button, Apple had a problem. While Mac users were busy clicking on things all over the screen, PCs added a second button, the right click, in order add a second layer of interaction, a feature that eventually forced Cupertino’s hand…
In our project we focus on a single street in NYC: Broadway. Like a spine in a human body, Broadway runs through the middle of Manhattan Island curving along its way. We wanted to include a slightly wider area than the street itself so we can capture also the activities nearby. To define this area,…
It was October 2, 2000, and somewhere in the sub-basement of CNET’s popular website Gamecenter, two editors simultaneously inserted their keys into the doomsday machine. They looked at each other, a mix of pain and grim determination on their faces. One nodded. They turned their keys and pressed the glowing red button. It was done….
Credit: By ota_photos on Flickr. Some right reserved. To mark International Women’s Day this weekend here’s our pick of 10 of the top female journalists and tech innovators who’ve made an impact on the industry over the last year. We received a great number of nominations on Twitter for this list, which you can see…
A new study reports that white Christians, long understood to be the primary shapers of American politics and culture, are rapidly losing their majority status across the country — even in traditionally conservative states. Earlier this week, Jonathan Merritt of the Religion News Service dug into data from the American Values Atlas, a website unveiled late…
I think that all these stats have a point, but I’m also a little uncomfortable with how heavily focused on parents and marital status this is. It’s very easy to look at this coverage and say ‘ah, this is the decline of traditional family values hitting economic opportunity.’ At least that is how this author…