An interesting debate has been bouncing around the Internet over the last week about “Killing Hollywood”–where not a few folks in Silicon Valley (spurred by SOPA) have called for Silicon Valley doing its best to put “Hollywood” out of business. The problem, I think, is that there is a clear delineation between “Hollywood”–the old business [...]
The folks over at the Technology Council of Southern California (TCOSC) have passed on a discount to their upcoming, January 31st event for anyone reading this blog. If you use the code BOD12, you’ll gain entry to the event for $35, a $20 discount from the normal registration fee. Info below, and you can register [...]
For any entrepreneurs looking to get some visibility for their company, the folks over at DOMAINfest Global, the domain name conference run by Oversee.net, have extended the deadline for their PitchFest competition. The PitchFest competition will be judged by such folks as John Morris of the Tech Coast Angels, Jeff Cohn (DeadCellZones.com,PhotoEnforced.com) Scott Jarus (j2 [...]
It sounds like the National Venture Capital Association is looking to start a campaign to try to straighten out the mess which has come out as Republican candidate Mitt Romney has started to be referred to as a venture capitalist (or to his fellow Republican candidates, “vulture capitalist”). All politics aside, for anyone who regularly covers [...]
There’s an infographic floating around this morning where the folks in New York (Silicon Alley) compare and contrast their list of startups with Silicon Valley. (yeah, we’ve been there before). It is, with great amusement, that I see one of the highly touted “Silicon Valley” companies on the infographic: Hulu I suppose, to those East [...]
“You will be assimilated. “ The Borg, Star Trek It fascinated me to see the move Google made today — announced in their blog — to further cram Google+, the firm’s social networking service, into its mainline search results. Google said that it would start using information from Google+ posts from your friends and circles [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
