Google announced a new program Wednesday to fund developers who create gadgets for the firm’s personal desktop and home page. For those who haven’t played around with Google’s personal home pages, gadgets are little software widgets which allow you to display custom content–news, games, weather, etc. We’ve had a Google gadget available for socalTECH since [...]
MySpace is set to launch MySpaceTV (NyTimes); more on Santa Ana-based Ingram Micro’s deal to distribute Google Search appliances; Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson reportedly are asking for huge executive compensation deals from News Corp.
Two of Southern California’s entrepreneurs, Matt Coffin of LowermyBills.com and Lawrence Ng of Oversee.net, were among the set of entrepreneurs honored at the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year event last night at the Beverly Hilton. Other technology industry notables who were finalists at the event were Robert Howard-Anderson at Occam Networks, Mark DiPaola [...]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that Business.com is up for sale, for between $300M and $400M. I interviewed Jake Winebaum, the CEO of Business.com, back in February. Also, former Intermix founder Brad Greenspan is continuing his vendetta against News Corp., with his own bid for Dow Jones. For those not familiar with [...]
Here’s an interesting item I just ran across: the U.S. Patent and Trademark office has just launched a new program that allows anyone evaluate software patents. The new site, at www.peertopatent.org allow anyone to join and review and discuss patent applications, including suggesting prior art, annotation of applications, and interacting with the USPTO. More details [...]
The news today that venture capital firm Benchmark Capital has snagged two early Google employees (behind Google’s popular Maps product) is not surprising; there’s a fair number of Googlers who have done extremely well due to Google’s rapid climb to the top of the technology food chain. I’m surprised, however, that there hasn’t been more [...]
A UK newspaper is reporting that News Corp. is exploring swapping a piece of MySpace for a part of Yahoo. TechCrunch looks at CrazyEgg (click here for my interview with Hiten Shah of CrazyEgg in April). VentureBeat reviews VeohTV, Veoh’s new streaming video site.
I spent the weekend up in Palo Alto, attending Stanford’s graduation, and had the occasion to hear Dana Gioia, head of the National Endowment for the Arts, speak at the graduation ceremony. Gioia, a poet and a Stanford MBA, talked about his view that America’s popular culture has suffered a decline–with a focus only on [...]
Maybe it’s just a strange coincidence, but I was amused today reading yesterday’s post from Michael Arrington about TechCrunch’s second birthday, and the same day, Rafat Ali’s post about how he started his blog site, PaidContent June 12th, five years ago. If you’re in the market to create a popular, technology/business focused blog, looks like [...]
Peter Adderton is finally out at Amp’d Mobile, after it filed for bankruptcy.
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
