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Stanford Summit: Data questions

Bambi Francisco is moderating this panel about data... what is the data telling us? The panelists are from a number of search companies. Usama Fayyad of Yahoo!…

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Stanford Summit: What can't a phone do?

Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm, is describing the future of what the mobile phone will do. Based on what he's saying, I think there's nothing it can't…

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Stanford Summit: Is China a friend or foe?

Joe Schoendorf recently got to speak at Tsinghua University to discuss innovation. His talk here incorporates some of the same things he said to the students th…

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Stanford Summit

After a little treacherous time finding the physical location of the Summit this morning at Stanford University (note to AlwaysOn: please put specific location…

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Nice rats, nasty rats

From an article by Nicholas Wade in yesterday's Times: '{Mr. Albert} hopes to identify 200 sites along the genome at which the tame and ferocious rats…

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Pandora connects with listeners

I enjoyed attending Pandora's Town Hall meeting last night at Swig in SF. The event was sponsored/co-organized by AMP3. Being an early (and continuing) fan…

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Friends at work...

I recently had a chance to hit a few campuses and meet up with a few of the people I've enjoyed working with over the past year. A few weeks ago I met up w…

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Caricaturing your opponent’s stances

From a review entitled "Manic Progressives" by Tobin Harshaw in the New York Times Book Review: 'According to Lakoff, conservatives believe that…

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The myth of Evil

A recent article by Edward Rothstein in the New York Times discusses the book “Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History” by Dav…