Month: September 2011

  • “What it means to be a school is now up for grabs.”

    Education, for me, is still the most exciting field that open source is opening up. It’s a vital part of any civilized society, and so it seems right that the software that helps participants teach and learn should be open. I have no qualms about charging private institutions like Stanford, say, the six figure license […]

  • latakoo in TechCrunch

    latakoo’s in TechCrunch today: Jon Orlin, who runs TechCrunch TV, was initially a skeptic. But he did some beta and real world testing and was very impressed. Orlin says “Latakoo solves a real problem for us. We recently had some large HD video files shot for our Keen On show in Aspen. Andrew Keen was […]

  • Some lessons from the startups at TechCrunch Disrupt

    Be clear. Know what you’re selling. Our backdrop set it out plainly: “Send video fast. Make video easy.” More than a few journalists said we had the best poster of the day. Build value. If your company allows other companies to build value more efficiently, you’re onto a winner. Mostly this has meant creating advertising […]

  • Day two at TechCrunch Disrupt

    With all of the inside baseball politics surrounding TechCrunch lately, what I hadn’t had time to consider was that Disrupt would turn out to be the most high energy, intensively productive conference I’ve attended for a really long time. It certainly helps that I’m here representing a product that wows people in thirty seconds flat […]