Max Gladwell

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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