Is The Government Telling The Truth When It Says Your Data Is Secure?
(David previously published this at Techcrunch.) Modern encryption systems are, in theory, exceptionally secure. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), for example, is so sophisticated that all known attacks are considered computationally infeasible. It is no surprise then, that the NSA considers 256-bit AES safe for storing top-secret data. What is ...
Okay..I Said it: This Time it's Different, or How The Bubble WILL Come About
This Time It's different [Source www.500px.com] We are entering a new era. A time when great wealth is being created, and old fortunes destroyed (but not let us dwell there). A time of convergence and disruption that has not been seen in anyone's lifetime. In the late 90's it was ...
Social Privacy
I was watching Mark Suster and Tom McInerney on This Week in Venture Capital mainly for fun, though Tom is a good friend. If you have not watched it you should as it is highly engaging. Well into the discussion Tom and Mark delve into privacy and Tom mentions that ...
There is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
I really did not want to post about the Yuri Milner/Y Combinator/SV Angel announcement, but felt that there was something lacking in the debate. Like Roger Ehrenberg I think this is a "ho-hum" announcement, but time will tell. There are various surveys and analyses out there, and all the numbers ...
The Future of Computing
Now that I have your attention with a grandiose title, I am going to share with you an iPad tech support story: I am in London and had to switch out my iPad - I could not get the O2 sim card working for UK wireless connectivity, so Steve at ...
Current Tech Destroys Newspapers, Future Tech Supports Them
There is increased discussion about the imminent end to newspapers, such as the quote by the publisher of the New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr: Asked about his response to the suggestion that the NYT might print its last edition in 2015, Sulzberger said he saw no point in making ...
Feature or Product or Business or Defensible Business?
Sanjay Anandaram posted a great article in Plugged.in, and I suggest that you read the full article, though to get his full perspective. The money quote for me is: Today I know that a feature doesn’t make a product. A product doesn’t make a business; And most importantly, a business ...
Life Mechanics
As a child I read books about Transactional Analysis and OneUpmanship, probably at the prompting of my mother. I found these interesting in the way they described bow people play games in life and expect a reaction for every action. Have you never been in a crowd and someone waived ...
Raising Money? Easy? Investing? Easy? - Why Not?
A few days ago Dave McClure posed this: This was the consummation of a heated debate on Twitter regarding a blog posting by Niki Scevak entitled Angel Index Funding Bullshit. Niki argues that Ron Conway and Dave McClure by investing in a large number of startups leads to them being ...
My Love Hate Relationship with Google Docs, and by Extension Google
I have been a strong proponent of using Google Docs to create off-line storage of your important files. No more. What happened? Simply put: it worked until it stopped. I do not know if that is because I reached 96% usage of the 1 GB of non Google Docs formatted ...
