I know I (and everyone else) has beaten the “twitter is down” horse to death, but I’ve been watching with interest to see if that old adage–that it takes two weeks to break a habit– will come true for users of twitter. It’s now approaching the two week mark for the latest round of instability [...]
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I usually avoid covering the (hundreds) of awards and recognition people hand out to companies, because there are simply too many. However, AlwaysOn — which is running their conference, AlwaysOn Hollywood in a couple of weeks — just announced their list of their top 100 private companies in the digital entertainment area, and I thought [...]
I’ve noticed an alarming trend (at least to me) lately, which is the number of folks who have been approaching me offering “pay for play” on their startups or events. Pay-for-play — for those not familiar with it — is the use of either advertising dollars or outright payments to get positive writeups or mentions [...]
That is, if you’re a bankrupt MVNO. Cowan Alexander — the auction house which rose upon the carcass of the dot com era — has some of the assets of ill-fated Amp’d Mobile up for auction next month in Canoga Park. Alas, nothing juicy in this auction except your own rat’s nest of cables (Lot [...]
I got this very amusing email from the San Jose Mercury News today, promoting their new “e-Edition” (demo here) — an online version of their “dead tree” newspaper — complete with paper layout, photos, advertisements, frozen as they were in the print edition. I seriously wonder how a paper — which lives in the ultra-competitive [...]
I’ve been having the same discussions with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, service providers, and others recently about the successful companies in Southern California. Namely, folks always talk about how there has been a lot of recent venture activity, but they’re curious as to what the next wave of successes from startups will be. I was mulling [...]
One thing Web 2.0 companies have done well, is figure out new ways to get both new media/blogs and the mainstream media to cover their companies, by manufacturing news. In most cases, it’s for “exclusive invites” to join their beta sites. On that note, It looks like angel backed, Los Angeles firm Orgoo managed to [...]
I came across this interesting description of pre-1800′s, early American newspapers reading a book on the newspaper publishing industry last night, and couldn’t help but chuckling on how it pretty much describes the blogging world today: News in early American newspapers..was written in a literary or letter style far different from the style found in [...]
There’s been more than enough random speculation (and complaining) on the various blogs on why the popular Twitter instant messaging service has been crashing (it seems like it’s been down more than it’s been up, and the site’s technical team has even said that they’re not sure what’s happening.) I don’t have any insights into [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
