Dave McClure has fingerprints all over the social media map, so you have probably seen him on his blog, his Twitter account (which has 15,880 followers as of this writing), or Facebook. Dave is an angel investor who recently joined a VC fund (the Founders Fund).The accepted wisdom today is that angels have buried their [...]

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This year’s SXSW Interactive festival marks the one year anniversary of Guy Kawasaki’s official launch of Alltop, and since its debut the service has transformed from a site with just a few categories to a resource that now houses over 31,000 feeds on 550 different topics.
It wouldn’t be a monumental birthday if Alltop didn’t have [...]

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The Adamo’s only just come out, but it looks like we might already know what Dell’s next step is-an ultra-portable 9-inch Adamo and a 22-inch Studio One all-in-one PC.
References to an Adamo 9 and a Studio One 22 were found in Dell’s support documents, right next to the Adamo 13 and the Studio 1909 [...]

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This is the first in a weekly series of interviews with venture capitalists. We chose True Ventures to kick off the series because it closed a Series A deal for Syncplicity in the dark days of October 2008, earning it a spot on our A-Team. When it closed a second Series A with Loopfuse in [...]

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Google turned some heads this week when they announced behavior-based advertising - targeted ads based on browsing history. Although not as striking, Facebook made some headlines as well, announcing geo and language ad targeting. Both cases display the desire of advertisers to have as detailed and targeted advertising campaigns as possible, as well [...]

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If that headline didn’t grab your attention, I don’t know what will. A British 13-year-old smuggled a stun gun he bought on vacation into school, and proceeded to go a little zap-crazy.
The kid bought the gun for $15 while on vacation in Bulgaria, which makes Bulgaria sound like kind of a badass place to go [...]

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At SXSW Interactive yesterday, I met Curtis Spencer (@cruxlux) in the hall between panels. We sat down and spoke for a few minutes and he told me about an application he was developing called Cruxlux. The name describes what the application attempts to do: Lux for light and Crux for the decisive point. In essence, [...]

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Natasha Wescoat is an artist and illustrator with a passion for community and social media. She authors a blog at NatashasArtCandy.com.
Videoblogging isn’t just for teenyboppers with Flips. It’s a simple way professional creatives can make use of high traffic sites like YouTube to showcase their work and communicate with their audience in a fun and [...]

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It’s been interesting watching the CNBC’s bad habits come under fire by the mighty Jon Stewart. Gawker’s got a clip of Cramer as he appears on The Daily Show tonight, where Jim Cramer is quoted talking about manipulating Apple stock.
Cramer listens, and doesn’t defend himself too much, which is admirable. Watching this is especially interesting [...]

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On March 13th, 2009 the World Wide Web will turn 20 years old. Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented this world-changing layer on top of the Internet on this day in 1989. It’s hard to overstate the impact this young technology has had already and it’s even more exciting to think about where it’s going [...]

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