I briefly mentioned in my previous post here (and the one from yesterday on SiliconANGLE) that the new “like” functionality from Facebook isn’t going to be useful for small to mid-sized content producers. I saw my first “like” implementation in the wild just now.  Over at Techmeme. This may not be the best example, but I think it illustrates my issue with the Like button: it’s not that useful from either a publisher...

Run, don’t walk, to your GMail account and add me. Click here, in fact, and follow me. Do you really want Pete Cashmore and Robert Scoble to be the only power users on the system? Yeah, I didn’t think...

I read a story a long time ago (I forget the author or even the title) that talked about a world that evolved on one of the moons of Jupiter – it was an entire ecosystem that mirrored our own consisting entirely of robots.  I’ll refrain from synopsizing the entire plot here, but it sparked my imagination at the time, because it made it seem entirely plausible. Things like these robots only do more to solidify that belief. I for one...

In other robot news, Optimus Prime does the top 10 on Letterman. [h/t: Deadline Hollywood via...

I’ve always wanted a robot that makes coffee.  As a short film, this is fascinating. Something tells me that this requires a bit of supervision to make sure the task is completed properly,...