The world is full of promise. There are a lot of talented individuals waiting to produce the next Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Foursquare. It is the understanding that investors and people who want companies to succeed will pick the ones that will show promise and that people will understand. And here in Silicon Valley, we must be cognizant about what is being produced here that the mainstream audience will eventually come and embrace.
With that being said, one quandary that has somehow plagued the Valley in the past 24 hours comes from Color. …

Just when you thought the Twitter desktop application marketplace couldn’t get any more cluttered, another “competitor” enters the ring to rival that of app powerhouses, Seesmic Desktop and Tweetdeck (among others). But while you might think it’s just another desktop application to download, it throws in a unique twist – it throws in some more context with the links that you get. And it’s also from a startup you might already be familiar with: LazyFeed.
The power behind RSS and Twitter
Just introduced a few days ago, LazyFeed’s new product Lazyscope focuses …

We’re all in a crisis now…economically speaking, of course. Budgets are as tight as they possibly could be, but things just aren’t getting any better. As a result of this budgetary crisis, businesses and even government agencies are resigning themselves to cut services to their constituents. One such organization that has affected me is the San Francisco Metropolitan Transit Authority (SFMTA) – this agency is responsible for management of the public buses, light rail and cable car operations in the city. I wrote a post about what SFMTA could do …

There’s been a lot of talk lately surrounding privacy and social networks like Facebook and geo-location services (FourSquare, Gowalla, Google Latitude, etc.) and I have been meaning to write a post about this issue for a while now. In light of the recent f8 conference and how reports surface that founder Mark Zuckerberg feels that privacy is overrated, it’s only appropo to look at how your data and, quite frankly, your life, is viewed online, both from a security standpoint and one of common decency.
Before you read any further, let …