Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

Wow, I couldn't believe that this is a real word. Automagically. I thought my colleague was using it as a gag.  But when I asked...

So I read in the Wall Street Journal yesterday that 3 major technology companies get over 80% of their revenue from advertising: These ...

Well first of all, let me say that I really liked this image on Google the other day.  Beautiful to see the diversity and brotherhood (a...

[Please only read this with a sense of political humor.] Here are some funny ideas for domestic and foreign picks for a fantasy Cabinet ...

So I did it and took the plunge into a smartwatch.  For over a year, I thought the technology just wasn't there yet.  Too clu...

As per my previous blogs on the mystical number 613 (corresponding to the G-d's commandments in the Torah), today we have a technologi...

So I don't know how I feel about this or maybe I do.  The Wall Street Journal reports today that from the 10 largest companies by m...

I love my Apple iPhone, but this core product debuted in January 2007. We're going on almost 9 years!!! Don't get me wrong, th...

There is a definite rhythm to our lives.  And by analyzing the peak times of Google search terms, we can get a good picture of what i...

So apparently data mining can be used for all sorts of research... In the New York Times today, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz tries his ha...

I took this photo in downtown Washington, D.C.  Unlike the Google Car, which is purported to drive itself...this one let's the rid...

I read with great interest this week in BBC about 2 mysterious barges off the East and West coasts of the U.S. One barge is by San Fran...

Google, which touts itself as the one that "organize[s] the world's information and make[s] it universally accessible and usable,...

The Atlantic (21 June 2013) has a startling article about hiring at Google--"It's a complete random mess." With all the Go...

Apple which is under competitive pressure to come up with something new—since Steve Jobs, their chief and master innovator passe...

I can only say that my fascination with Google continues to grow daily.  Years ago, I used to joke, "What is this G-O-O-G-L-E?...

Two interesting recent articles discuss the importance of building in simplicity to product design to make things more useful to people. ...

One of the things that I love about the Intelligence Community (IC) is that they think future and they think big.  Noah Schactman in  ...

Today, Facebook announced it's new search tool called Graph Search for locating information on people, places, interests, photos, m...

The autocomplete feature in search engines can tell us a lot about what people are thinking and asking about. According to the N...