Steve Thomas - IT Consultant

Gillmor Gang Artcard Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Kevin MArks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session at 1pmPT today. Gillmor Gang LIVE chatroom powered by ChatCenter Gillmor Gang on Facebook HERE Our sister show, G3, on Facebook HERE Archives of all G3 shows Read More
espn-youtube The fallout from YouTube Red, its forthcoming ad-free subscription service, is already underway. Today, the majority of ESPN’s video content has been pulled off of YouTube in the US, as the sports network currently can’t participate in the YouTube Red service due to rights issues surrounding its content. Though TechCrunch can now confirm that parent company Disney does have a… Read More
Makerbot 2015 Factory Floor It’s been an eventful year for 3D printing company MakerBot: it got a new CEO, opened a new factory in Brooklyn’s Industry City and announced multiple rounds of layoffs. We visited the Industry City facility back in September and spoke to CEO Jonathan Jaglom (previously an executive at Stratasys, which acquired MakerBot in 2013) about where he sees MakerBot going from here. Read More
Notifications Summit The Notifications Summit was recorded live October 1, 2015 @ betaworks in New York. Gathered were a group of technologists, developers, and thought leaders. Media as the First Instance, Alerts (Cont’d): 5 minute High Order Bit — News and Notifications with Stacy-Marie Ishmael (Buzzfeed) Different approaches to event detection for notifications, a data perspective Gilad Lotan… Read More
Notifications Summit Media as the First Instance, Alerts: Media as a case study, how media is using the notifications as an alert infrastructure: Jon Steinberg (Daily Mail), Andrew Mclaughlin (Digg), Alex Danco (Share the bus) How do you think about the notification stream? How do media companies develop notifications beyond simple alerts? How do you think about other contextual signals, interest graph, location… Read More
Notifications Summit The Notifications Summit was recorded live October 1, 2015 @ betaworks in New York. The Notification stream eats Apps, becoming the meta app. Matthew Panzarino (Techcrunch), Or Arbel (Yo!), Peter Rojas (betaworks) In a world where the only death sentence is noise what will be the relationship between notifications and the current smartphone UI with its field of app icons? Read More
GG test pattern sepia3 The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Peter Rojas, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Wednesday, September 30, 2015. This Gang immediately preceded the Notification Summit at betaworks in New York. It also starts the flow of sessions of the Summit, as summarized by John Borthwick’s post on Medium. Plus, the latest G3: Kristie Wells, Rebecca Woodcock, Francine Hardaway,… Read More
YouTube Kids Screenshot When YouTube first launched its dedicated “Kids” app earlier this year, parents welcomed the opportunity to be able to keep their children away from the more adult content found on the larger YouTube network, thanks to the new app’s curated selection of kid-friendly videos. But the app soon came under fire from consumer watchdog groups who claimed YouTube was not doing enough… Read More
Gillmor Gang Artcard The Firesign Theatre A conversation with David Ossman and Philip Proctor The two surviving members of the Firesign Theatre took to Skype to remember their late colleagues Phil Austin and Peter Bergman. The group’s final show was in 2011, and Peter Bergman died in 2012. Phil Austin died June 18 at his home on Fox Island, Washington; he was 74. Read More
robinhood This might not seem like the best time to be running a startup focused on stock market trading, but Vlad Tenev, co-founder of Robinhood, still sees plenty of opportunities. “There’s always companies and products that are doing well, and there’s always comapnies and products that aren’t doing so well,” he said. “In addition to that, short-term fluctuations… Read More
Another September, another Disrupt SF. And with any Disrupt comes the Disrupt Hackathon, where more than 700 hackers have gathered to build a product in under 24 hours. They’re given food, beverage, and booze in the hopes that some combination of alcohol, caffeine and camaraderie will yield a stellar hack. We also equip the hackers with various APIs from our lovely sponsors, giving them… Read More
Harrison Barnes, Golden State Warrior and NBA Finals Champion, has interests that vary far beyond the world of basketball. In fact, Barnes has a true passion for technology, with plans to potentially enter the world of angel investing when he’s finished playing. Read More