Max Gladwell

Editor’s note: We’re pleased to welcome Arun Mathur of Smart Grid Citizen as a new guest blogger. This is an exciting space with tremendous opportunities for entrepreneurs. Thousands of smart meters are being installed and activated every day. We’ll see plenty of innovative approaches to utilizing them in the coming years. In the 20th century [...]

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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 [...]

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The distinction between the online and offline world is becoming less and less clear. Is the World Wide Web taking over the World? Or is it the other way around? “If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then ‘real’ is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.” –Morpheus The question boils [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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