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- Today's Debate: Are genetic tests a threat?
- The start-up 23andme, whose best-known board member is Esther Dyson (right, from their web site), has an interesting goal. They want your genome. The company wants to build a database of genomes and offer "private, secured" access to it. Jesse Reynolds of the Center for Genetics and Society writes...
- Tags: Genome, Esther Dyson, Biotechnology, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- Esther Dyson is posting her genome on the Web; Will you follow?
- Esther Dyson is posting her genome on the Web; Will you follow?Health Insurance was soon after unavailable for heryeah great way to market a bad idea
- Tags: Biotechnology, Channel management, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, genome, Esther Dyson, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
- Esther Dyson is posting her genome on the Web; Will you follow?
- In a Wall Street Journal editorial Esther Dyson outlines how she will post her genome, medical history and health questionnaire for the world to see on the Web. Will you follow?Dyson, an investor in genome information startup 23andMe, is participating in Harvard geneticist George Church's Personal Genome project. In the...
- Tags: General, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Are we our workers' keepers?
- Last week I had dinner with Omid Moghadam [below left] and Anne Chapman of Intel. They had just had an interesting day meeting with a variety of would-be supporters in Washington: The Wall Street Journal had just broken – a week early – the news of a new coalition...
- Tags: PHR, Uncategorized, health
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- End the heartbreak of repetitive registrations!
- I just had dinner with Dick Hardt of Sxip. He’s about to launch Sxipper, an open-source, "learning" version of those familiar adware wallet tools. This one will be a Firefox plug-in, coming out in a couple of weeks. Its free, but natch theres a charge for premium services.The basic idea...
- Tags: Sxipper, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- Seriosly interesting
- Helen Cheng of Seriosity spoke at PC Forum last March, but she said very little about her own company and talked mostly about her experiences as a level-60 World of Warcraft warrior. She fascinated the audience, especially with her persuasive assertion that “everything is so transparent; you...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Start-up
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- Trip report: Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan has probably had more Google hits in the last month than ever before in its short existence as a republic independent of the Soviet Union - since 1992 barely older than Google itself. Thats due to three things: the recent visit of Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstans autocratic ruler, who has...
- Tags: government, Kazakh
- Blog posts 2006-10-18
- What I really said at Office 2.0
- I just did an interview with Dan Farber at the Office 2.0 Conference, and surprised myself with what came out. What is Office 2.0? It's not shared spreadsheets; it's spreadsheets for processes.To be honest, I haven't been focusing much on Office 2.0... sounded pretty corporate and boring. So I hustled...
- Tags: Itensil, Office 2.0, tool, Microsoft Office
- Blog posts 2006-10-15
- Google - beyond the interview
- I recently interviewed Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, for a video series sponsored by British Telecom. You can see it either at BT.com registration required or at interview iTunes. Or you can read on for my unapproved speculations about Googles future. I think its clear Google needs to move more...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-02
- Trip report - Dubai
- Just to set the scene, Dubai is one of seven emirates comprising the United Arab Emirates, a sovereign state; the UAE is a federation of jurisdictions with some local laws and economic regulations, and some central ones. As everyone I met stressed, the UAE is...
- Tags: There&rsquo, s
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
- Click fraud - here we go again
- Yet another piece on click fraud, this time from Businessweek – which of course is an “old medium” itself. What amazes me is the elephant in the room: This is not an intractable problem. (Ask me about intractable: I just came back from the Middle East!) Wherever the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-09-23
- Don't write my obit just yet!
- Word has slowly gotten out that the PC Forum last March was the last ever. So let me interview myself: What happened? Well, with very few exceptions, each PC Forum would be better than the previous year's. ...
- Tags: PC Forum
- Blog posts 2006-09-16
- A quick tour of marketing magic
- A client of CNET’s recently asked me to do a presentation on “important events in marketing,” and I got to thinking about it in the pool this morning. Good marketing sings; it resonates with something that’s already in the recipient’s mind. And that’s why I love it: A...
- Tags: advertisement, Federal Express, marketing
- Blog posts 2006-09-12
- Worth your attention
- Michael Goldhaber is the real thinker behind the attention economy concept. Ironically, he hasn't really gotten the attention he deserves. He wrote an issue of Release 1.0 my newsletter way back in the early 90s, and he gave a stunning but mostly ignored talk at O'Reilly's Web 2.0 conference...
- Tags: Michael Goldhaber
- Blog posts 2006-09-10
- Cry the beloved country!
- I’m writing this as I leave South Africa – sitting in an airport lounge on WiFi (iPass via South Africa’s Internet Solutions) at the end of my fifth trip here over a span of six years. I’m a member of the President’s International Advisory Council PIAC on the Information...
- Tags: I&rsquo, m, President&rsquo, s International Advisory Council
- Blog posts 2006-09-07
- Do you see a pattern?
- “I’ve seen this movie before and it doesn’t end well,” mutters a VC whose start-up is short of cash. “We’ll always have Paris,” Rick tells Ilsa near the end of the movie “Casablanca.” Both these scenarios illustrate a favorite point of David Waltz, the natural-language expert whom I met...
- Tags: pattern recognition
- Blog posts 2006-08-28
- Welcome Esther Dyson and Denise Howell
- Welcome Esther Dyson and Denise HowellSuch Great NewsI was a fan of Esther's from the start, and the rare times I hear her on a panel via IT Conversations is a treat. She's clearly going to add value to an already-impressive collection of stars doing great work over in the...
- Tags: Web site development, Operational accounting, Web technology, Public Records, social security number, Social Security, redaction, Denise Howell, clerk, Web site, Esther Dyson
- Discussion threads 2006-08-26
- Welcome Esther Dyson and Denise Howell
- We have added two new bloggers to ZDNet in the last week--Esther Dyson and Denise Howell. Esther is Editor at Large at CNET Networks, which means she writes about whatever interests her in the technology arena. She describes the coverage of her ZDNet blog, Release 0.9, as follows:"I'll be covering...
- Tags: Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2006-08-25
- Zag steers new route to buying a car
- DISCLOSURE: I do not know how to drive a car. In fact, I have been weightless (on two Zero-G flights, for 16 minutes) longer than I have ever driven a car-like vehicle - twice, a golf cart in Florida long ago, and an electric car in Aspen this summer, for...
- Tags: INTERNET, CarsDirect
- Blog posts 2006-08-22
- Report from Foo Camp -- goodness!
- I spent the weekend at Science Foo Camp, cosponsored by O'Reilly and Google. Apart from the excellent food (of course!), there was also some excellent discussion in this mostly user-generated event. I personally generated a session on ethics; the users generating the content included Stewart Brand, Sol Katz,...
- Tags: morality, ethics
- Blog posts 2006-08-15
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