I don’t usually spend too much time on conference panels (I prefer to moderate them), but LAVA asked me to help out on a panel next month. On a completely unrelated note, it’s interesting to see how different the hours different parts of this technology community seems to keep — financiers have lots of these [...]
Despite living and breathing business every day, I’ve never been one to be swayed much by how the market is moving. Yes, lots of folks are seeing their portfolios down (again) in the markets today, and no one every likes to see the public markets in turmoil, but I think environments like this can actually [...]
When is too much “social” just too much? The announcement today by Google that it is starting to mix in “social” results in its searches might be considered a good thing, particularly to those who are really into social networks and are tuned into making sure they’re synchronized with their friends. The addition is just [...]
I’m usually on the other side of the interview (and not usually one who cares to have the limelight myself), so I was surprised when Frank Peters, who runs the Frank Peters Show podcast and is an active angel investor here in Southern California, asked me to do an interview with him about the site. [...]
For those of you who missed the TEDxUSC event in April, the school is now posting videos of the event online on YouTube. The latest videos are of Michael Yap, who heads up Singapore’s efforts to invest in digital technology, and of Peter Lee Johnson, a student at USC who combined guitar with digital technology [...]
In what (to me) is a fascinating story, Intel investor, and LA billionaire Max Palevsky died yesterday in Beverly Hills. Amazing and fascinating, because of his story (he sold his first firm, SDS, to Xerox in 1969 for $920M, and bankrolled Intel as an angel/venture investor along with Arthur Rock, of Venrock Associates) — and the fact that [...]
A couple of Tuesday links: Wiring Los Angeles (John Savageau) – a look into how downtown Los Angeles became a telecom hub, converting empty office space into one of the most densely connected telecom hubs in the world VC Funding Season Ends Next Week (Mark Suster) – Yes, there is such a thing as VC [...]
In a (someone dismal) case of science fiction becoming reality, the Washington Post has an article today about how hackers are using Voice-over-IP (VoIP) to “hack” the 911 system, and sending SWAT teams to the houses of people they don’t like (or randomly pick). Fans of William Gibson — who coined the term “cyberspace” in [...]
Great post today on ReadWriteWeb: Technology is Great, but Are We Forgetting To Live? In the gadget driven world of high tech companies, it sometimes seems like we’re driving toward “the Matrix”–where you’re always connected, plugged in, and spend more conscious hours connected via a screen to the “virtual world” than in the world around [...]
The launch this morning of Oblong Industries — a venture-backed company developing gesture-based user interfaces ala The Minority Report — is the latest in what appears to be a string of 3D and virtual interaction-related companies showing up here in Southern California. Other companies in the area include Total Immersion, which develops technology which allows [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
