Twitter’s latest geolocation feature, Local Trends, starts us in the direction of geospatial awareness. How relevant or useful are Twitter’s trending topics to you? There was a time when the Twitter ecosystem was more contained and trending topics was generally useful or at least interesting. As this screenshot shows, it’s become useless. The mainstreaming of [...]
Entries from January 2010
Twitter Local Trends: The Dawn of Geospatial Awareness
January 23rd, 2010 by Max Gladwell · 6 Comments
Tags: Geolocation · Lifestreaming
Reflections on the Decade III: Dawn of the 2.0 Era
January 7th, 2010 by Max Gladwell · 3 Comments
The first decade of the new millennium ushered in new versions of just about everything. Long ago the software industry established a simple versioning protocol to mark the progress and development of its products. These are expressed as versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.1, etc. Over the past decade, the world borrowed this successive, numeric method [...]
Tags: Politics · Technology
Fox News Features Zumbox in San Francisco
January 5th, 2010 by Max Gladwell · 1 Comment
Fox News recently did a feature story on Zumbox, the paperless postal system. The story was syndicated nationally and internationally through Fox television affiliates (TV and Web). The piece focuses on municipal adoption of Zumbox in San Francisco, which was spearheaded by the City’s forward-thinking Mayor, Gavin Newsom, and its Department of the Environment. The [...]
Tags: Max Gladwell · Media
Reflections on the Decade II: Biofuel Boom and Bust
January 5th, 2010 by Max Gladwell · 5 Comments
The biofuel industry went through a boom and bust not unlike the dot-com era. Can Biofuels 2.0 revitalize the broken industry in the twenty-teens? The previous decade will be remembered for giving birth to the clean tech movement and more specifically the business opportunity in green technology. When we look back, the 2000s will be [...]
Tags: Alternative Energy
