Who’s making money right now in the tech publications world? This BusinessWeek article by Sarah Lacy says it’s the “unsexy” email newsletter. Speaking of email newsletters, we find that a significant number of our readers have been getting our email newsletter for years. The earliest copy we still have around is from 1999 (has it [...]
Here’s an interesting, easy-to-understand, explanation of how we got into this whole economic mess, in a project from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Worth checking out.
For those who are regularly up at 1:30 am in the morning, Google’s Gmail went down (to lots of Twitter angst) for a few hours. What’s interesting, is a few minutes ago their team just posted an “everything is working” post on their blog, with a mysterious note that some users “may be asked to [...]
Here’s an interesting article on The Twenty Five Most Valuable Blogs. Interesting exercise in acquisition multiples. But, it seems like many of these “most valuable” blogs are still (like the publishers who might look to buy them) losing money, plus there’s not a whole lot of return for their venture backers. Examples: #2 on the [...]
Yes, that’s my photo. No, we don’t have a new content deal with VentureBeat (the technology publication of new DEMO conference organizer Matt Marshall). It’s just that (as happens quite a bit) in the world of the Internet, content — especially photos — are so easy to copy/paste that folks don’t think twice before using [...]
We’ve just released the results of our informal industry survey. More details on our news feed. I’ve also included a link to a PDF with a summary of the results. Thanks to the David James Agency for conducting this for us. My takeaways: folks are cost cutting all around; public companies seem to be more [...]
We’re (mostly) off for President’s Day today. We’ll continue on our regular schedule Tuesday. (credit: psilver on Flickr)
In what was a remarkable turnout–given the horrible economy we’re in–there were more than a thousand people at last night’s Twiistup 5 event. Twiistup 5–the brainchild of Mike Macadaan–lets startups show off their products to the crowd in a very non-conference setting (this time, a private hangar at the Santa Monica airport). Cogi, a service [...]
Good article in the Wall Street Journal about the carnage as more startups are shut down, or sold in fire sales. You know it’s bad news for private companies when you suddenly see Martin Pichinson — famous for his many deals selling off the carcasses of dead Dot Com firms — is again being quoted [...]
If you’re like me, you’re tired of hearing about layoffs, the huge number of job losses due to the economy, etc. So, it’s nice to hear that there seem to be a number of local companies squarely in hiring mode. One of those companies is Aerovironment, which has locations in Monrovia and Simi Valley–the firm [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
