As most of you know, it’s a combination of our premium members and our sponsors who make it possible for us to produce our newsletter and cover Southern California’s technology industry. (Alas, you’ve got to pay for creating Internet content somehow!). So, we’re very grateful to the many sponsors who have stepped up to help [...]
Today’s quick roundup of some interesting technology news: Is venture capital “broken”? A significant number of VCs apparently think so. Is Santa Monica’s Userplane–the startup sold by Mike Jones to AOL–now in the deadpool? Is Clear–which used to, until recently, run those express security screening lines at LAX etc.–looking to sell your personal data? ParAccel [...]
This is a bit off topic, but for the geeks in the room, it’s worth following the folks over at iSuppli (in El Segundo) — turned into an analyst firm some time ago, and is now regularly tearing apart new electronic items and figuring out how much they cost, what components they use, etc. Their [...]
Ryan Born, CEO and founder of AudioMicro, which is creating an online marketplace for stock audio clips (for use in online videos, etc.) passes on that he’s giving readers of socalTECH free music downloads if they join the site. He said that readers of socalTECH who want two free download credits (worth $8.99) can join [...]
Last night, the Los Angeles area Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards were given at the Beverly Hilton, with two technology entrepreneurs are among the winners. Jeff Tinsley, who is CEO of MyLife.com, and Deepak Chopra, of OSI Systems in Hawthorne, were among the winners of the prize, which is one of several [...]
Here’s a fascinating one. Jason Calacanis — founder of Santa Monica-based Mahalo (and Internet celebrity)–just pointed out that a user on Mahalo has asked someone to figure out the correlation of BMI (body mass index) of startup founders versus startup outcome. Sounds to me like the old statistical game of trying to correlate women’s hemlines [...]
Twiistup, the Los Angeles networking and technology showcase event, just announced that Brad Feld — a widely followed venture capitalist from the Foundry Group — and David Sacks, founder of Geni/Yammer and formerly COO of PayPal, will be speaking at the event.
The software architect spends a ton of time thinking stuff through when designing their software systems, to avoid problems like Twitter rolling over on its “unique IDs” for twitter messages (aka the “Twitpocalypse”?!), and the programmer just pounds out whatever works at the time without thinking things through. My advice: hire a better software architect. [...]
Thanks to our newest sponsor, NeoHire, which is sponsoring our “Executive Moves” section. NeoHire is a Southern California recruiting agency, specializing in online media and technology properties. The firm’s current clients include Zag.com, Vantage Media, Buzz Media, and other firms. The company also has recently launched a new consulting division, providing web and product development, [...]
Frank Addante, Nicole Jordan, and the rest at Rubicon Project: file this little tidbit from Valleywag under “any press is good press”. Valleywag took its trademark swipe at Frank’s recent tour of Rubicon’s offices (yes, the original set for “24″): The office is built on the set of 24, which is a great idea if [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
