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Stanford Summit: Woz!

A very fast-paced Q&A with Steve Wozniak left me with these points of interest: tetris video, Segway Polo, iWoz, the diamond rio500.…

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Stanford Summit: wacky search info.

An audience member asked a great question: What are the crazy/wacky things that they've learned from the search data? Jim: "How can I tell if I'm…

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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…