6,000 or so people have congregated at the Rio hotel in Las Vegas for this year’s World Series of Poker to fight for $50 million or so that will be split among the last 10% of players left standing. Among them are a number of tech startup entrepreneurs. We’re tracking four of them, plus any others t ...
It seems rather counter-intuitive to the modern concept that the wired world connects more people than ever before, that it could also be one of the most disconnecting links to our humanity. As written by Jason Calacanis in his article, The End of Empathy, the emotional cues of face-to-face interact ...
Does the world need another gadget site? Yes, say two of the gadget world’s biggest stars, who are launching gdgt.com today. The site is the work of Peter Rojas, who helped build Gizmodo then Engadget, and Ryan Block, who took the torch from Rojas after he moved on. Gizmodo and Engadget are the best ...
A quick glance at our Twitter feed yesterday revealed that Gawker’s Nick Denton was a panelist at this year’s Apsen Institute Ideas Festival. It was a double glance actually — Nick Denton and the old guard Aspen Institute are not the likeliest of bedfellows. A Google and Twitter search proved us cor ...
It’s easy to to adopt the policy of avoiding risk at all costs, that whenever possible, the products you launch or the engagements you have should be flawless and without downside. Here’s the problem: in most endeavors, a small increase in risk can double the reward. It’s the second doubling of rewa ...
The deaths of Michael Jackson, Farah Fawcett and Ed McMahon were catastropic... to Tyler Florence's publicity efforts. Also apparently tragic: having to ride to a resort town on a private jet, and...
The TV Addict has a secret. I’ve been cheating on Homer Simpson with Kevin Pollak. What’s worse is we met online, it’s happened more than once and oh yeah… did I mention I can’t stop? Our relationship started a few Sundays back when word got out (via twitter, naturally) that an old friend, Matthew P ...
CNN (1), CNBC (1), Bloomberg (1) Bloomberg BLOOMBERG TV COVERS THE ASPEN IDEAS CONFERENCE StartingTuesday, BLOOMBERG TELEVISION’s® Erik Schatzker reports live from the Aspen Ideas Conference. Interviews include: * Felix Rohatyn – President of Rohatyn Associates, former Managing Director at Lazard Fr ...
Of course you would! It's been two hours since TMZ got ahold of the call to 911 reporting Michael Jackson's heart attack and we haven't posted it. Dereliction of duty! Anyway, the link is here. In...
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