NSFW: Colo(u)r Me Done – I’m Going To Vegas, For Starters

After having been a tech executive for many years, I needed to take a break, and I wanted to give back to society. Duke University engineering dean Kristina Johnson gave me a great spiel about how the schools Masters of Engineering Management program churns out great engineers, and how engineers solve the worlds problems. She said that I could make a big impact by teaching engineering students about the real world and encouraging them to become entrepreneurs. I felt so excited that I joined the university without even asking for a proper salary. That was in 2005.
As we just broke the news on, Google has a secret group messaging project that was built from within their confines: Disco. Slide, which Google bought last year, are the ones responsible for the app. And since word is that they’re allowed to run autonomously within the company as their own startup of sorts, the app probably doesn’t have anything to do with Google’s broader social strategy.
Palo Alto, Calif. - Facebook has tweaked its Facebook
Questions service, integrating the feature more tightly with users’ feeds, CNET
reported. The service now offers the ability to create brief polls, in addition
to soliciting long-form answers. Additionally, if a user answers a friend’s
question or participates in a friend’s poll, that question/poll may then be
further distributed to that person’s contacts via the News Feed.
AngelList, a sort of social network that brings entrepreneurs and investors together to talk about and fund deals, is more controversial than the average Joe might think. But one thing’s clear, top tier venture capitalists are using the site to find companies.