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What happens when a warm front and cold front collide? Usually, extremely violent weather, which could include, torrential rain, lightning and thunder, hail, and tornadoes. Steve Jobs is back at the helm. In addition to getting down and dirty on the product stuff we are now seeing him take care of some looming issues around people. [...]

I have taken some time off from blogging here to work on the SiliconANGLE project.  siliconANGLE has been a big success in only three months.  Next week I’ll be announcing new news on SiliconANGLE. I will use this blog to post my personal observations and random notes about my family, friends, and work.  SiliconANGLE will cover [...]

I’m really happy with the recent activity around what was launched as a side project of mine - siliconANGLE.com.  As of today we have 3 editors: me, Mark Rizzn Hopkins, and Rex Dixon.  Even more exciting is that we have 24 contributors signed up to blog with us. With the growth of siliconANGLE going strong, I [...]

Google launching GrandCentral tomorrow.  SiliconAngle is my new group blog one edited by myself  and community of contributors. Apparently this story might be under embargo or so I am hearing – well what can I say I am not under embargo.  I have never broken an embargo ever.  So if this was under embargo then [...]

The new open project called siliconANGLE.com is a few days old and their is an interesting stat.  As expected mostly tech insiders are reading the blog early on – the firefox stats speaks to that.  I’m sure the mainstream sites are the opposite with IE at the top.  Interesting to see Chrome on there at [...]

Thanks Kara for noticing the new blog yesterday and writing a post. We all at siliconANGLE look forward to diving deeper into the stories that you report. siliconANGLE.com a new blog that is a collaboration between me and my friends.  A new model in blogging and developing stories and analysis. SiliconANGLE.com [...]

Introducing my new group blog  siliconANGLE.com.  Here is a post that explains why I’m moving my Furrier.org blog to SiliconAngle.com. I’ve been thinking for sometime now about starting a new blog that is different than the current blogs out there today – one that adds something new, different, and interesting to the conversation. I’m launching this new [...]

I’m launching a new group blog tonight. Look for info here and on twitter..

This is a teaser post. I am waiting to talk about this further, but to tease out the future of blogging economics I wanted to point out a great post worth reading. Blogging and social media is changing and is very relevant. Advertisers just don’t know how to engage with it. Example quote [...]

My friends Randy Adams and Nicole Adams over as Searchme.com are running a\”Share the Love\” contest where the first prize is an all expense paid trip for two to see Britney Spears in LA if you create the \”most romantic\” playlist from their music search. Although it escapes me why anyone would ever want to see Britney try to [...]

Enjoy this interview Sheryl Sandberg the Facebook COO at Davos. Mike Arrington grabbed her for a 9 min interview. One thing that I would ask Sheryl is how they are handling the policy for kids. As Linda Furrier posted last week, she has an opinion on Facebook for Kids. Full transcript: Michael Arrington: I [...]

This is my fav from the Super Bowl 2009

My cousin Tom Furrier is featured in the Boston Globe today with his business as a typewriter repairman.  Who said blogging killed the typewriter.  Maybe he should go into blog repair Here is the link http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185071465http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=16988910 There is still a demand for typewriter repairs, from those, young and old, who love the sound and feel of the [...]

I ran into this post by Cisco’s James Erquhart on Infra20.com titled – Is the Intercloud History Repeated? James writes:  definitely some of the same elements are appearing in the Cloud Computing ecosphere that once helped build the Internet. Specifically, I see three key initiatives that have an analog in the Internet’s past: 1.  The rising [...]

The article today about Apple iPhone having video capabilities made me think about the scale of the net.  We have to see full scale global video by 2015.  However, first things first, we need an infrastructure revamp – Infrastructure 2.0. We need to handle the traffic explosion. Here is a great deep review of the coming [...]