John Furrier

John Furrier is founder, co-CEO, and Editor-in-Chief of SiliconANGLE Media, a new media company covering the intersection of computer science and social science. Furrier's vision is of a future that uses technology and data to create quality content and user experiences while creating and growing quality communities. Simply put: To extract the signal from the noise! Our motto: we cover everything "where Computer Science meets Social Science". Furrier lives in Palo Alto, California with his wife and four children.

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Blackberry Developer Conference – They Want to Friend Everyone

NEWS - BY JOHN FURRIER - 14 YEARS AGO

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Update from event: The points below are NOT quotes. They are paraphrased and/or my own personal liberal interpretations. I cannot emphasize this point enough; nobody from RIM actually said these words. 1. We are the carrier’s friend. Bandwidth is extremely constrained, and upgrading networks costs tens or hundreds of billions of dollars. All-you-can-eat data plans ...

Blekko and The Google Killer Jinx

NEWS - BY JOHN FURRIER - 14 YEARS AGO

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The worst thing that any startup can do is say that they are a Google killer. It is natural for Rich Skrenta the founder of Blekko – a search engine – messaging the opposite. Rich writes: “…there is no such thing as a Google killer. No company is going to play David to their Goliath ...

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