Max Gladwell

Peering into the crystal ball that is Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Bryers
Silicon Valley VC firm Keiner Perkins’ prescient ways led them to back Amazon, Sun Microsystems, and Google to name a few. Its success is practically unrivaled in the tech space. While the firm’s portfolio is diverse, it is placing increased emphasis on green energy, […]

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We’re sensing a very positive trend: smart, connected, powerful people are calling for solutions
From Fortune:
As president of Google, Larry Page has pushed his people to take risks that have led to hot new applications like Gmail and Google Maps. Lately he has been thinking far outside the walls of his company. Page sees a world […]

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It’s a solution to global warming, dependence on fossil fuels, air pollution, urban congestion, parking, and obesity. That’s what we call a mega solution.

From YouTube:
The concept vehicle in the animation is a human-electric hybrid. You power the generator and the electric motor drives the vehicle. You can also drive it as an electric vehicle if […]

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A celebration of one of the foundations of social media. Plus, a great YouTube RSS tip

Evidently, May 1st is “RSS Awareness Day.” And why not? It’s one of the greatest and most efficient ways to stay informed and manage news. It so dramatically streamlines the process of finding the information that’s important and relevant to […]

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Umair Haque wants to help you and your startup make the world a better place.

When we look around at the Web 2.0 landscape, we see a lot of promise. We’re looking at the glass half-full when it comes to the nexus of social media and green living and their combined potential to change the world. The […]

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From Earth2Tech:
Can Twitter help you turn your lights off? IBM’s “Master Inventor” Andy Stanford-Clark has rigged up his home to twitter its energy use, and if you follow the tweets you can see in real time when Stanford-Clark has turned his lights and fountain off or on and whether he has an “unusually high electricity […]

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“There is this amazing confluence of technology and opportunity at a time where we really can change the world. And there are some big problems that need to be solved.” –Tim O’Reilly
The Web 2.0 Expo took place this week in San Francisco. We attended virtually through Twitter, blogs, and Blip.tv. The keynote from Tim O’Reilly […]

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The other search giant announces a new developer platform and the socialization of its entire web infrastructure. But don’t call it another social network.
From TechCrunch: “Yahoo wants to turn itself into one big social network-driven site, and simultaneously open many of its core services to get users and developers thinking of Yahoo as their Internet […]

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The nexus of green living and lifestreaming…brought to you by Twitter, FriendFeed, MySocial 24/7, Alert Thingy, Seesmic, Deepak Chopra, and more.
Lifestreaming is “an online record of a person’s daily activities, either via direct video feed or via aggregating the person’s online content such as blog posts, social network updates, and online photos.” This is the […]

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As Stephen Colbert would say, “This is a Threat Down!”
Net neutrality is the basis of the social web. It’s like our right to vote. Granted, companies and wealthy individuals can exert undue political influence through lobbyists and donations, but an election i.e. democracy still comes down to one person, one vote. The Net and social […]

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