Facebook Application Development

By now nearly everyone knows that China has emerged as an increasingly massive and very lucrative market — but because of major differences in culture, language, business practices, and the like, it is incredibly challenging for even the most well-capitalized of U.S. technology companies to break into the Chinese market. So for small U.S.-based startups, it’s nearly impossible. The same is true in reverse: Chinese startups have a very tough time entering into the U.S. market and gaining traction here.

That’s where a new startup incubator called Innospring is looking to help.

The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — turned off their minds, relaxed, and floated downstream on the push notification inbox of tomorrow. Borrowing a page from the Tibetan Book of Windows, the Gang debated the impossibility of multitasking, the existence of a new uber operating system, and the overall impact of surrendering to the void.

Revolver marked the exact center of the Beatles arc; everything before was prologue, everything after continues to expand as the media is transformed. A quarter of a million may seem like a lot of dollars for playing one song once on a TV show, just as we await the size of the Facebook IPO. Recorded first and sequenced last, Tomorrow Never Knows is the end of the beginning.

The Olympus OM-D E-M5 is arguably the best micro four-thirds camera Olympus has to offer. We’ve had issues with past m4/3 iterations like the EP1 and EP3, like awful color reproduction and slow auto-focus. The same problems don’t persist here, and anything that impresses John on the photography front is a rare gem certainly worth consideration.

“In the Studio” opens its doors this week to a technologist who grew up tinkering with old Macs, dropped out of college to begin a career in technology, founded a few companies, and wound up as the Chief Technical Officer of NASA, where he oversaw the development of the Open Stack Project and has now left found a company in Palo Alto that aims to commercialize that technology in new ways.

Chris Kemp co-founded Nebula to create an infrastructure and data systems solution for companies that, after reaching a certain scale, might want to offload some of their balance to a different solution and, in the process, save on those monthly Amazon Web Services bills. To hear Kemp describe it, Nebula looks similar to AWS and runs behind your own firewall in your own data center environment. For companies that reach a certain scale who can plan their growth with some reasonable certainty, a dependency on AWS can become costly.

Newfangled social and gaming apps are popular and all, but it turns out that some content dating back thousands of years can still hold its own in today’s tech landscape. YouVersion, a Bible reading app made by nationwide Christian megachurch LifeChurch.tv, has crossed the 50 million download mark across the variety of mobile devices on which it’s available.