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Bradley

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Big Tech Voices

Seriously Google? This Is Obnoxious

You know what I’m talking about. Your intrusive over the top new ad policy. REALLY??? You want to put people’s names and pics in ads without their permission? People of common sense, if you want out of this, do…

Start Ups

Meet Pebble, a Kickstarter Success

Neighborhood watch time: Precursor to the iWatch? different? better? I don’t know but it’s here now: Meet Pebble Check emails, texts, lots more..go to the site and check them out. But do look at reviews – they go from bad…

General

Signs of the Times

And here at Philz, downtown Palo Alto, an invite to female engineers for a meetup at Wealthfront It is a presentation to develop street cred. Interesting topic – the equalization of gender power. How come 30 years of women’s…

General

Secret Mountain Lab

Sometimes it is so much fun to sit at Cafe Venetia in Palo Alto besides the good coffee and veggie quiche. This is one of them. A Palo Alto institution as much as Cafe Venetia.…

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Start Ups

Palantir Gets more big money for more Big Data

Palantir, the Palo Alto based big data, CIA funded start up that still hasn’t invited me to dinner announced Friday another round of financing. $196.5 million. Thanks to The Daily News, September 28th edition for this news.…

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General Voices

Facebook stop spamming me with your bots

just a few – there are many, many more. This is not normal – this spamming is crashing servers of others.  Facebook – stop this or tell me how to. Apparently it has to do with made up facebook…

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Government & Technology

Big Data, Big Brother, and Small Returns for Some

I said it before: Big money follows big data follows big disruption. The Silicon Valley Business Journal recently wrote about Sequoia Capital Investor Michael Moritz arguing the position that collectively we are creating a massive data factory by our willingness…