Okay, we are crying uncle. We have added back the “Google+” button on our news posts. Anyone who wants to go back and +1 all the articles on their favorite companies, please do. (Apparently, Google’s ranking algorithms are now heavily weighting search relevancy towards pages which have been +1′d and shared — and is ignoring [...]
Just a quick heads up, I’m speaking on a panel in Pasadena later today, Venture Capital in Southern California: Catching Up and Going Beyond, being run by 89.3 KPCC at the Crawford Family Forum. We’ll be discussing Southern California’s technology industry, the state of startups and venture capital, and more. Hope to see you there! [...]
Although anyone reading this feed is most likely getting their news via RSS or Twitter, rather than email: yes, that email you saw this morning was much later than usual. We actually send it manually in the morning (I like to make sure we get the breaking morning news) and I have to hit “approve” [...]
Well, that was quick. We’re dropping our Google+ buttons on our news stories, for the meantime (we just added them in July), because we found that including the Google+ button was actually decreasing the amount of social commenting on other sites–such as Facebook–on our stories, even as it failed to gain any interest in Google+. [...]
Just a reminder to folks who want to follow us on their feed reader, this is the direct link to our RSS feed. You can also find us on Twitter and Facebook. We were reminded today by a user that our feed is getting “borrowed” by some aggregators, so you might just make sure you’re [...]
For the few of you who had used our Subscribed Links feature (which highlighted our articles in your Google search results), we’ve just dropped support after Google announced (in typical, pre-Labor day afternoon Friday fashion) that it is discontinuing the service. It appears that not many web sites had implemented the feature over the years, [...]
Welcome to our latest sponsor, Siemer & Associates, an investment banking firm focused on Internet and digital media advisory services! Siemer joins our other sponsors in making what we do at socalTECH possible, and helping to build Southern California’s technology community. You can get more information about Siemer & Associates on their web site, at [...]
Just a quick administrative note, we’ve added Google Plus buttons to all of our stories. What is Google Plus? It’s the new social networking site (think supercharged Facebook) Google just launched. It’s invite-only (email me if you need an invite), and very focused on sharing content with others, in a slightly more filtered way than [...]
Every year, Deloitte (one of our sponsors) highlights rapidly growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 rankings. This year, their Los Angeles program is also looking to find “rising stars” within that group, who have the highest growth rates between 2008 to 2010. Interested companies can get the details below: Deloitte’s Technology Fast [...]
Is RSS dead? Not so, based on how many people have asked me where the RSS link for this blog is recently (obscured in some past page design update ). The direct RSS feed is right here. We’ll fix that, and you should be able to just point your reader at blog.socaltech.com for auto discovery [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
