Benjamin Kuo’s Blog

I spent most of the morning/part of the afternoon at AlwaysOn Hollywood. AlwaysOn is Tony Perkin’s (former Red Herring founder) new venture, and his AlwaysOn Hollywood event focuses in on some of the trends bringing the technology world together with media/Hollywood.

What I find interesting is the difference in crowd you get attending an event like this–primarily a Northern California crowd, with a few folks from Hollywood mixed in, and a few (but very few) people from the technology/startup side of Southern California.

I spent a few minutes talking with Justin Kan, of Justin.tv (for those not familiar with Justin.tv, Justin is wearing a web camera 24/7 broadcasting basically his entire life) and Kevin Rose of Digg addressed the user revolt the company is facing after trying to remove a HD-DVD hack from the popular user-generated news site.

Some of the local executives on upcoming panels: Adam Lilling, CEO of Biggerboat is on a panel later today; Dmitry Shapiro of Veoh is scheduled for a session tonight;  Greg Kostello of VMIX Media is on a session Thursday, as is Steven Starr, of Revver. Frank Creer of Zone Ventures, and Richard Rosenblatt of Demand Media were also on panels at the conference earlier.

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