Wade Roush
Hi, thanks for visiting my author page. I'm Chief Correspondent at Xconomy, and since June 2010 I've also been Editor of Xconomy San Francisco. You can reach me by e-mail at wroush@xconomy.com, or by phone at (415) 796-3024.
In addition to my regular news stories, I write an opinion/review column every Friday called
World Wide Wade. An up-to-date list of all of my Xconomy stories follows at the bottom of this page.
I'm a longtime science and technology writer focused on digital media and Internet culture, with a special interest in mobile, social, and location-aware computing and the creative applications of Web and mobile tools.
I was a staff member at MIT’s
Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, serving as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and (for a short while) executive editor of TechnologyReview.com. Before joining
TR, I was the Boston bureau reporter for
Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia, the company that made the Rocket eBook (like the Kindle, but way before its time).
I graduated Magna cum Laude in the history of science from Harvard College in 1989 and earned a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT in 1994. I've published my work in
Science,
Technology Review,
IEEE Spectrum,
Encyclopaedia Brittanica,
Technology and Culture,
Alaska Airlines Magazine, and
World Business, and I've been a guest of NPR, CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and the PBS NewsHour. I'm a frequent conference participant and enjoy opportunities to moderate panel discussions and on-stage chats.
I'm the author of an e-book compilation,
Pixel Nation: 80 Weeks of World Wide Wade, which is available as a
free PDF or a
$4.99 Kindle edition.
My social media coordinates:
Twitter:
@wroush,
@XconomySF
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YouTube:
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LinkedIn:
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My personal blog:
Travels with Rhody
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In short order, startup incubator Rock Health has become one of the Bay Area’s hubs for entrepreneurs working on technology ideas that could change healthcare delivery.
Formed last year to test... Read more »
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When Shawn Bercuson and his family went to Park City, UT, exactly one year ago, they may have been the only people not in town to attend the famous Sundance Film... Read more »
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Google is changing its mind about what’s relevant.
In a sweeping technical overhaul that will start to go into effect today, the search giant is altering the way it ranks search results to... Read more »
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If you tune your Twitter client to the hashtag #xcevernote this Friday at 11:00 am Pacific time / 2:00 pm Eastern time, you’ll be able to join me and Gary Little... Read more »
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Entrepreneurs in the crowdsourced-services niche must be feeling a lot like the knights battling the killer rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail these days. San Francisco service-networking site TaskRabbit,... Read more »
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Time for our first deals roundup of 2012. As usual, we’re gathering some of this week’s most interesting investment and M&A updates from around the San Francisco Bay Area, and arranging... Read more »
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How will the media habits of families, especially those with young kids, evolve in the era of the tablet computer?
I got an interesting perspective on that question over the holidays, which... Read more »
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Josh Felser has three kids. Dave Samuel has four. You won’t hear any highfalutin business-speak from these former tech entrepreneurs about why they started Freestyle Capital, their San Francisco-based seed-stage... Read more »
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After building a vast virtual world with a complex internal economy sustained by the labor of more than a million active users, what do you do for an encore?
For Philip Rosedale, the founder and... Read more »
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The challenge of writing a year-end “top stories” post is that a list of headlines is too particular to illustrate what really happened over the last year. Sometimes the outlines of the big... Read more »
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The iPad 2 won’t be the only tablet turning up as a holiday gift this year: it’s finally got some real competition in the form of the more affordable Kindle Fire. But let’s... Read more »
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Time for our data-driven roundup of the latest deals news from around the San Francisco Bay Area.
$17 to $18 billion—The approximate amount Yahoo could raise by selling off its stakes... Read more »
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Ask Scott Raskin to name the number-one innovation that changed the world of project management and business collaboration, and he has a surprising answer: the whiteboard.
It’s not that the answer is nonsensical—Raskin... Read more »
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The United States seems stuck with a two-party political system. We don’t always have the same two parties—the Whigs were replaced by the Republicans in the 1850s, for example—but there doesn’t seem... Read more »
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Time for our roundup of the latest deals news from Bay Area technology companies, from biggest to smallest. And today’s biggest numbers are pretty big.
$1 billion—The approximate amount raised by... Read more »
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In a grand test of whether the Silicon Valley startup accelerator model can help university scientists get promising new technologies to market faster, 21 teams hand-picked for the National Science Foundation’s new... Read more »
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In Silicon Valley, there is no more pejorative term than “lifestyle business.” It’s usually applied to companies that do well enough to earn their founders and employees a living—sometimes a very good living—but... Read more »
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Time for our irregular, data-driven roundup of recent deals news from around San Francisco Bay. From biggest to smallest:
$50 million—The amount that Sunnyvale, CA-based Proofpoint hopes to raise in an... Read more »
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For about six months now, I’ve been trying to get Kris Duggan to change the name of his company. To me, “Badgeville” manages to be both faddish and inaccurate:... Read more »
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If you’re a technology company, it’s painful to bury an obsolete product before it’s well and truly dead. Most established companies can’t bring themselves to do it, choosing instead to keep limping... Read more »
