This week is shaping up to be one of the busiest tech-event weeks so far this year yet, making me think again that a clone would help to actually get to all of these. Among the events happening this week are: Oversee.net‘s DOMAINfest, a huge, annual event catering to the domain name business and domainers; [...]
Okay, maybe not exactly fun, but sure better than the drive (swim?) into the office this morning for some of you, and bound to be better than the wet drive home later today through the torrential downpour and occasional flashes of lighting out there: the socalTECH Annual Industry Survey! Last year we kicked off an [...]
One of the interesting trends I’ve been watching emerge out of the new, social web has been the push toward user-generated and user-directed contests — for user-created advertising, user-driven voting, and even user-directed charity donations. The social medium seems ideally tuned towards reaching out to people based on their interests, and where their friends and [...]
In case you missed it, the organizers of the upcoming Twiistup technology showcase and conference have launched a new way to get your company to present at the event (and also, a good way for them to attract more attendees) — they just announced a “Wildcard Demo” where attendees can vote via text messaging for [...]
We’re looking for a few MBA or business students, who wouldn’t mind interning with us for some experience and exposure to the world of high tech startups and venture capital. As an intern, you would research and verify information in our venture capital database, do competitive research, analyze companies, and other tasks which are highly [...]
Last year, in the midst of a market collapse and recession, we kicked off an effort to survey the opinions of people in the high tech industry here in Southern California to get a better idea of people’s opinions and attitudes on the economy. As a followup, working with the David James Agency, we’re doing [...]
Happy New Year everyone, and welcome back (to those who took some well deserved time off over the holidays). We’re back into full coverage now, as people gear up for the new year!
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
