We are at the cusp of a new phase of robotics, where some of what has been promised to us for decades will come to fruition. An example of this is the iCub , a humanoid baby robot that can learn, emulating human cognition and development. Our main goal is to study cognition through the implementation of a humanoid robot the size of a 3.5 MORE >>

A couple of days ago I was speaking with Reuters reporter Connie Loizos, who's been covering the Internet space since the days of the Industry Standard (she worked at the Red Herring). You can find that story here , on PEHub. But that's not the interesting part of our conversation. So let's break it down. First off, what is "the press"? MORE >>

Recently, I’ve been thinking about how the wave of new enterprise social tools have the potential to change the structure of the businesses that use them. In theory, tools like Yammer , tibbr and present.ly have the potential to flatten an organization’s structure and reduce hierarchy. Adoption. Effects. Best Practices. MORE >>

The escalating unrest in North Africa and other parts of the world continues to make us wonder about the fundamental levers of control of the entire internet, and its uses for mass interactions and broadcasts. Bit.ly, the uniform resource locator (web site url address) shortener widely used by marketers and Twitter users relies on.ly, the MORE >>

The very dynamic Adam Franklin and Toby Jenkins of Bluewire Media recently did a video interview of me, asking me about the trends driving how the web will shape business. Here is the video, with a summary of my headline points below. Also see Bluewire Media’s original post of the video , which has my comments written up in greater detail.). MORE >>