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
Facebook:
www.facebook.com/wade.roush
Google+ :
https://plus.google.com/112058474141856164031/posts//p/pub
YouTube:
www.youtube.com/wroush1967
Flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/wroush/
LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/in/waderoush
My personal blog:
Travels with Rhody
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Start your week off right with our data-driven roundup of deals and M&A news from San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
$18 million—New venture funding for solar photovoltaic module manufacturer Tigo... Read more »
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Will the startup accelerator model that’s proved so popular and successful in the Web and mobile sectors also help to boost entrepreneurship in other industries, such as healthcare and cleantech? In... Read more »
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If you’ve already bought someone a gift card for the holidays, don’t read the rest of this article. It’ll just make you feel bad.
Okay, still with me? It turns out most gift... Read more »
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Here’s your one-stop, data-driven roundup of deals news around the San Francisco Bay Area in the last few days.
$110 million—The cash price fetched by Jobs2Web, the San Mateo, CA-based... Read more »
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Any iPad owner who uses Flipboard a lot knows the familiar disappointed feeling: You left your iPad at home, you’re waiting in line at the grocery store, and you just want to... Read more »
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Some Silicon Valley CEOs moonlight as racecar drivers, others as winemakers. Gary Bloom, the outgoing CEO of San Mateo, CA-based eMeter, is probably the only one who spends... Read more »
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I’m a power user of Evernote, the Web-based notekeeping service used by more than 16 million people around the world. I’ve got Evernote’s applications and extensions installed on my Mac, my... Read more »
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Time for our irregular, data-driven review of recent Bay Area funding and M&A news and other developments. From biggest to smallest:
$3.4 billion—The amount German business software giant SAP (NYSE: SAP... Read more »
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Video editing software is way too hard to use.
At least, that seems to be what most consumers think. It explains why most of the videos you’ll find on YouTube and other... Read more »
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It’s been a while since our last data-driven news roundup of Bay Area business and technology news. Here are some of the choicest tidbits from the last few days, from biggest to smallest:... Read more »
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“Marcus Welby is dead.”
So says West Shell, the CEO of San Francisco-based Healthline. Not that Dr. Welby was ever actually alive—the fictional physician, played by Robert Young, made house calls... Read more »
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Get Satisfaction, the San Francisco-based builder of freemium online customer support communities, has one of those longest-overnight-success-ever stories. Founded in 2007 by Thor Muller, Amy Muller, and Lane Becker, the... Read more »
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If you had to boil down Autodesk‘s business to a few simple words, it might be “helping people create new realities”—whether that means constructing new objects or structures first envisioned on... Read more »
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Let’s face it: Your whole Thanksgiving weekend is going to be about food. So you might as well start a day early by watching the video below, which captures the entirety of... Read more »
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In a segment featured Tuesday night on the PBS NewsHour, correspondent Hari Sreenivasan brings an outsider’s curiosity to the strange, wonderful world of startup accelerators. The eight-minute report features Sreenivasan’s... Read more »
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Apple’s iPhone and iPad may be the hottest, most stylish gadgets out there—in fact, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has already enshrined the iPad 2 in an exhibit on industrial... Read more »
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Box, the Palo Alto file-sharing startup that recently snagged another $81 million in venture funding, has started to throw around the “E” word: ecosystem. At a media event in San Francisco... Read more »
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It’s roundup time. From biggest to smallest, here are the major deals and developments around the Bay Area since our last roundup on November 17.
$100 million—The amount San Francisco-based Yelp... Read more »
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If you’re a hammer, you just want to smash nails; if you’re a programmer, you just want to build features. But features do not a successful product make. This is the central myopia that... Read more »
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Time for our rundown of recent deals and other key biztech news around the Bay Area, from biggest to smallest.
$50 million—Series D venture financing announced yesterday for Marketo, the San... Read more »
