Ever since I/O and the unveiling of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the blogosphere has been measuring Google’s new Nexus 7 tablet. The verdict in almost every case is good, including our very own iPad lover’s take. John and I thus found it only fitting to bring the little 7-inch tablet into the studio for Fly or Die. The tablet, with a 7-inch IPS 1280×800 display, a Tegra 3 quad-core processor, and the l

Surprisingly Good Evidence That Real Name Policies Fail To Improve Comments YouTube has joined a growing list of social media companies who think that forcing users to use their real names will make comment sections less of a trolling wasteland, but there’s surprisingly good evidence from South Korea that real name policies fail at cleaning up comments. In 2007, South Korea temporarily mandated th

No office is a monoculture. Here’s how to bring together the personalities that will make your business thrive. Assembling your team is like putting together a puzzle. To succeed, you need to find the proper combination of complementary talents. A desire to change the world, think creatively, and to work in a culture of innovation, are all reasons people pursue careers in startups over big compani

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From Information to Understanding: Moving Beyond Search In The Age Of Siri Editor’s note: Nadav Gur is the founder and CEO of Desti, a virtual personal assistant for travel incubated by SRI. Previously, he was founder and CEO of Worldmate, the first mobile travel app. “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” –Albert Einstein Since the launch of Siri on the iPhone 4S last year, the media ha

Vertical Is The New Horizontal: How The Cloud Makes Domain Expertise More Valuable In The Enterprise Editor’s note: Gordon Ritter is a founder and general partner at Emergence Capital, focused on cloud companies. In the days before the cloud, on-premise software providers that focused on selling into a vertical market were considered second-class citizens to the “big guns” selling into the broader

Spoiler alert: Phelps and Lochte raced today. The results are all over Twitter. But the race won’t air on TV in America until tonight. This is 2012, not 1996. NBC has put all of the events live online, provided you have a cable subscription, but won’t have them available recorded online and won’t air many events, including the most high-profile ones, until a primetime tape delay. This isn’t a new

Spoiler alert: Phelps and Lochte raced today. The results are all over Twitter. But the race won’t air on TV in America until tonight. This is 2012, not 1996. NBC has put all of the events live online, provided you have a cable subscription, but won’t have them available recorded online and won’t air many events, including the most high-profile ones, until a primetime tape delay. This isn’t a new

Move Over, Pebble: MetaWatch’s New ‘Strata’ Aims To Make A Splash On Kickstarter Too Sure, the Pebble has nabbed its share of headlines and accolades lately, but that doesn’t mean it’s got the nascent smart watch market all sewed up. Case in point: veteran MetaWatch recently pulled back the curtains on its new Strata smart watch, and it’s already picking up plenty of steam on (where else?) Kicksta

BlogFrog Shows The Power of Women Bloggers But Trust Critical As Influencer Marketing Programs Rise In Popularity BlogFrog has developed a platform that would not be possible without women bloggers. The platform, which the company is unveiling this week, is based upon a network of 100,000 women that BlogFrog markets to brands that use it to develop social marketing campaigns that connect blogs, br

Bitly Announces Realtime, A Search Engine For Trending Links Today Bitly announced a new Bitly Labs project called Realtime, a service for finding the most clicked on Bitly links. Realtime, now in private beta, allows users to filter searches by social network, keyword, subject and more. For example, here are the results for a search for the keyword “startups” in technology on Twitter: As you can

Kickstarter: Meet The Vers 1Q, A Stunning 2-inch Battery-Powered Bluetooth Speaker I’m in absolute love. From the gorgeous wood cabinet to the technical capabilities, the little Vers’ 1Q is simply perfect. The $120 price ($99 for Kickstarters) is just icing on the cake. It’s rather refreshing to see a warm, nearly alive device in our world that’s generally filled with modeled plastic and faux chro

Apple's latest ads premiered Friday in support of the Olympics. The three commercials show a "Genius," someone you would encounter at your Genius Bar appointment, in other settings where his savvy comes to the rescue. The Genius helps technologically inept acquaintances understand how simple it is to use the product they've recently purchased -- but the humor misses the mark. Instead of showing th

Beyond Meat’s chicken strips taste just like real chicken but aren’t widely available yet. Photograph courtesy Beyond Meats The first time a vegetarian tastes Beyond Meat’s ersatz animal flesh, he’ll feel delighted and queasy at the same time. There’s something about the way these fake chicken strips break on your teeth, the way they initially resist and then yield to your chew, the faint fatty re

We’re very lucky that the creator of the Cerevellum is even alive. Evan Solida was a competitive cyclist until a major accident in 2007 left him unable to ride. After years of plastic surgery and physical therapy, he was able to get back onto his bike and now builds unique cycle designs, does contract work, and just released his first product, the Hindsight 35. This unique device is essentially a