Wade Roush

Hello and welcome to my author page. I'm Chief Correspondent at Xconomy. Since 2010 I've been editor of Xconomy San Francisco, and since April 2013 I've also been running Xperience, the consumer section of Xconomy. 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 VOX: The Voice of Xperience (the column was formerly called World Wide Wade). An up-to-date list of all of my Xconomy stories follows below.

I'm a longtime science and technology writer focused on digital media and Internet culture. I was a staff member at MIT’s Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, serving as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and 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.

I have a B.A. in the history of science from Harvard College and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT. I've published articles 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.

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Recent posts

Saying Farewell to World Wide Wade

They say it’s better to quit while you’re ahead, and I believe them. It’s easy to see what happens when you don’t. Remember season 7 of The West Wing? The... Read more »
Ex-Googlers Design an Algorithm for Investing in Young Entrepreneurs

“Venture capitalists have long said, ‘We invest in people, not ideas or businesses.’ Well, not really. We are the first people really doing it.”

So says Dave Girouard, the founder of... Read more »
Where Have All the Gadgets Gone?

A remarkable shift is taking place right under our noses. The universe of electronic devices in our homes and offices has stopped expanding, and has in fact begun to shrink. At... Read more »
In Post-CD Era, Gracenote Makes a Big Business of Content Recognition

For Gracenote, the media database company, Christmas used to be the busiest day of the year. They called it “iPod Day,” because that was when millions of people would be... Read more »
If You Like Jennifer Aniston, You Won’t Like This Article About Reverb

Erin McKean, the founder of the self-organizing online dictionary Wordnik, told me at the end of our first interview back in 2011 that she would like her company to become a... Read more »
What Makes an App Awesome? A Case Study with Mokriya Craigslist

If you were starting a Mobile App Design Hall of Fame, how would you decide which apps to nominate? Personally, I think I’d vote for the apps that keep me engaged... Read more »
HealthTap Positions Itself for Rush of Obamacare Patients in 2014

When you run into a Silicon Valley startup that’s been around for two or three years and has a popular, fast-growing product or service, but is earning little or no revenue,... Read more »
Guy Kawasaki, Citing Apple Parallel, Is Now Advising Motorola

Guy Kawasaki, the former Apple evangelist, startup founder, venture investor, and author, is famous in Silicon Valley for his entrepreneurial enthusiasm and verve. When Kawasaki decides he likes something, he really... Read more »
The Bay Lights: Video from An Improbable Art Project’s Debut

Thousands of San Franciscans braved the blustery rain Tuesday night to witness the official debut of the Bay Lights, an art installation that—every night for the next two years—will transform the... Read more »
WePay Joins the Fray in Mobile Payments

There’s a bit of news from WePay, a Palo Alto payments startup we’ve been following for years, that shows just how quickly everyone, small business owners included, is shifting... Read more »
In the Season of Ticketfly, Is It Ticketmaster’s Time to Die?

[Updated 3/7/13, further updated 3/20/13, see notes below] Ticketmaster has been called soul-crushingly evil and the most hated brand in America. If it had been included in this... Read more »
Facebook Killed My Blog

Travels With Rhody has reached the end of the road.

Don’t worry, Rhody himself is fine—he’ll turn 16 in a couple of months and his only problem in life is a... Read more »
Opponents of CA’s Retroactive Tax on Investors Win A Reprieve

[Updated 3/6/13, see below] In a bitter contest over tax changes that could hit California investors with bills for up to $120 million in unpaid taxes dating back to... Read more »
Byliner’s New Adventure in Publishing—A Talk with CEO John Tayman

In 1997, Outside magazine published a memorable non-fiction story by Peter Stark about what it feels like to freeze to death. The headline, awesomely, cribbed from Emily Dickinson: “As freezing... Read more »
Menlo Ventures Steps into the Spotlight

Venky Ganesan, the newest managing director at Menlo Ventures, likes to tell a story about one of his business idols, Sidney Weinberg. When Weinberg was building Goldman Sachs into a... Read more »
I Switched from Mint.com to Pageonce. Maybe You Should Too.

For more than a decade, I was a faithful user of Quicken, Intuit’s desktop personal finance program. I stopped using it in 2008 after Mint.com came along, giving me the ability... Read more »
National Science Foundation Scales Up Entrepreneurship Program

The National Science Foundation said today that it will fund a major expansion of its Innovation Corps program, an effort to teach NSF-funded university researchers how to build profitable startups around... Read more »
Meet the 14 New Rock Health Startups Innovating in Digital Health

San Francisco’s Rock Health startup accelerator held its fourth semi-annual Demo Day at UCSF’s Genentech Hall Wednesday afternoon. Investors and journalists heard pitches from 14 startups working to introduce new health-related... Read more »
Rod Brooks, Chris Anderson, Aldo Zini to Star at SRI Robotics Event

A couple of weeks ago we opened ticket sales for our second annual Silicon Valley robotics forum. It’s called Robots Remake the Workplace. But we could have just as easily... Read more »
Mindflash Zooms Ahead in Online Employee Training, Adds $3.5 Million

In the world of online training and education, personal video instruction sites like Udacity, Coursera, Khan Academy, and Lynda.com have been sucking up a lot of the oxygen. Certainly, that’s where... Read more »

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