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"Streaming is an implausible and inefficient use of wireless bandwidth. … Hard problems can't be solved with technical denialism."

"this morning the Wall Street Journal is running the news that we've just closed a $7 million B round that gives us a financial platform for the next few years. But the most exciting part of the announcement is the participation of CNN, who are both investing in the round and adopting the outside.in platform for their local coverage on CNN.com." http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/12/hyperlocal-goes-mainstream-cnn-teams-up-with-outsidein.html

"Mobile devices straddle the intersection of three significant industry trends: computing (or Moore's Law), connectivity, and the cloud. Simply put: * Phones get more powerful and less expensive all the time * They're connected to the Internet more often, from more places; and * They tap into computational power that's available in datacenters around the world. These "Cs" aren't new: we've discussed them in isolation for over 40 years. But today's smartphones -- for the first time -- combine all three into a personal, handheld experience. We've only begun to appreciate the impact of these converged devices, but we're pretty sure about one thing: we've moved past the PC-only era, into a world where search is forever changed. Just think: with a sensor-rich phone that's connected to the cloud, users can now search by voice (using the microphone), by location (using GPS and the compass), and by sight (using the camera)."

"Want your Facebook updates to stay out of Google? If that's a concern, you needn't worry. Only people who have changed their privacy settings to Public will have their content show up in Google. Facebook would like you to change that setting, but you don't need to worry about your private content being sold to Google without your opting-in by changing your settings. If Facebook is able to prod more users into sharing more content publicly, then it could rival Twitter in importance among real-time sources. Facebook has approximately 10 times as many users as Twitter today, but the fact that its default privacy setting is private means far less content is available for indexing. In addition to a potential for greater quantity, Facebook also holds far more personal information about its users, meaning that search tactics like personalization and localization would have more data points to process."