Hello, I'm Wade Roush. By day I'm chief correspondent and San Francisco editor for Xconomy, covering startups, innovation, and digital life. The buttons at left map to the places I hang out online. This blog is named after my intrepid dog Rhody.
Apple, Altius, Hipmunk, Thrutu, Transphorm, Room 77, & More Xconomy News
Time for the twice-monthly roundup of the major stories I’ve been pursuing for Xconomy San Francisco. While I was personally intrigued by the iPad 2 debut this week, there was so much other big stuff happening — including some interesting company and product launches and funding rounds — that I hardly had time to attend [...]
Crocodoc, Astia, Coworking Spaces, 7 Big Questions about Mobile, & More Xconomy News
It’s Presidents’ Day, which means one less story to write, which means I have a few extra moments to catch up on other things like this twice-monthly story roundup. Following are summaries of my major stories from the last two weeks, in reverse chronological order as usual:
* As a way of prepping for my emcee [...]
Obama’s Incubator Nation, a Rash of Startup Uncloakings, Inside Engine Yard and Eventbrite & More Xconomy News
There was an amazing rush of news affecting tech entrepreneurs and in the Bay Area and nationally over the last two weeks — starting with President Obama’s tech-heavy State of the Union address and continuing with the developments at Y Combinator (where every startup won a $150,000 lottery), the unveiling of the White House’s Startup [...]
iPad Superbooks, the Google Triumverate, Q&As Galore, and More Xconomy News
After the epic update from two weeks ago, I’ve got a more compact list of things to tell you about this time. In reverse chron order:
* For my January 21 column, I reviewed a couple of e-book titles for the iPad that the New York Timespraised recently as “superbooks”: Alice for the iPad and Why the Net Matters. [...]
Google’s Vision of “Augmented Humanity,” StumbleUpon, Path, the iPad 2, & More Xconomy News
It’s amazing how time accelerates around the end of the year. I didn’t mean to let eight weeks go after my last Xconomy update, but there you have it.
My biggest recent project was a three-part series, published last week, about Google’s vision for an “Age of Augmented Humanity” when our mobile devices will find what [...]
RockMelt, ShopWell, Drinking & Partying, & More Xconomy News
I missed my intended window for posting a news summary a couple of weeks ago (for good reason), so there’s even more than usual to talk this time around. The reason was my vacation week in Fairbanks, Alaska, where I have a brand-new niece and a three-year-old nephew. Baby picture fans can check out the adorable [...]
Mark Zuckerberg, Aneesh Chopra, Apps for Runners & More Xconomy News
My mini journalistic coup this month was scoring an interview with Aneesh Chopra, the CTO of the United States. We talked about healthcare IT policy, and how Chopra is trying to create new opportunities for entrepreneurs by opening up government data that they can deploy in Web and mobile apps.
The recently overhauled Facebook Groups feature is [...]
Telepresence Bots, Software for Solar, & More Xconomy News
Time for my second update on the big technology and business stories that have been keeping me busy lately.
It’s been an incredible privilege to get to know so many of the founder-entrepreneurs from this summer’s class of Y Combinator companies. Continuing myseries of YC profiles, I wrote a story on September 20 about Whereoscope, which [...]
#NewTwitter, Google Instant, iTunes 10, & More Xconomy News
This is the first in a series of roughly semi-monthly summaries of my major articles in Xconomy.
At this point, Google has all but confirmed that it’s working on a social networking play, though it’s not clear yet whether “Google Me” is going to be a coherent service comparable to Facebook or just a set of [...]
Social Media Mega Update
I’ve been making an effort to use today’s social media channels more effectively to spread the word about all the great stories we’re putting out at Xconomy. This blog is part of that strategy — I picked the so-called “Antisocial” Wordpress theme because of the cool social-media buttons on the left side of the screen. [...]
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