I don’t know about you, but the creeping “let’s make everything social” trend disappoints me. I was reminded on how everyone wants to make everything social today by both Google and Facebook–first, with Google jamming Google+ into its Google Contacts and Gmail services, and Facebook adding a “Subscribe” button so that readers of websites can [...]
(Image courtesy carterse @ flickr) There’s been a lot of navel gazing lately about whether or not we’re in a bubble. Based on valuations and hype, we might be, but there are a few areas where this bubble is seriously lacking. What’s different this time? Well, at least here in SoCal, we’re missing: 1. Free [...]
From a mass email from Reid Hoffman at LinkedIn: “I want to personally thank you because you were one of LinkedIn’s first 100,000 members (member number 20212 in fact!*). In any technology adoption lifecycle, there are the innovators, those who help lead the way. That was you.” Actually, I must have been slow on that [...]
For the stupid PR trick of the day: Having some clueless junior staffer cold call the editor of a publication, and asking them what kind of news they cover. I spoke with this very clueless staffer of a firm (which pitches me all the time, even!) which asked me some very basic, obvious questions they [...]
At the risk of offending everyone I know or have ever met at networking events here, here’s a lighthearted pre-holiday blog post to decoding some of the characters you’ll meet networking with people at Los Angeles technology events. (Apologies in advance!) The Producer – The Producer works in Hollywood, know entertainment, and has heard this [...]
One of the advantages (or disadvantages, depending on how you look at it) of running an email newsletter as part of our site, is you get a very direct feel for how many people are in or out of the office on any given day. Because we send out our newsletter every day to email [...]
Completely unrelated to Southern California’s technology industry, but one of the things which happens when you publish an online news site, is you get random press releases by the hundreds. Every once in awhile, you get one where you go “what were they thinking?!?!” Today’s prize for “what were they thinking” is a real estate [...]
I’m not much one for tattoos, but why it is we’ve run across the third high tech-meets tattoo story in the last month?!? (See: Darwin Dimensions, a developer of 3D avatar technology, powers a tattoo preview site).
Completely off the topic of technology/high tech, and venture capital, but is anyone else confused as if today is a holiday or not? It’s Columbus Day, officially a Federal Holiday. But, California recently decided that Columbus Day is NOT a holiday, spurring a clash with the SEIU, which represents thousands of state workers. The union [...]
I love this survey question that TechCrunch asked their readers, undoubtedly prepping a proposal for their advertisers (you have to answer ONE of those, at least, to get to the next question, btw). I think we’ll have to add it to our own list (substitute our pubs for TechCrunch in the appropriate places). Q.15 Why [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
