Just for fun, we’ve begun encoding our RSS story feed with the latitude and longitude of the companies mentioned in the stories. So, you can now see our RSS feed geographically on, for example, Google maps (go to: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.socaltech.com/news/news.rss). You will see each of our stories overlaid on a map, updated in real time.
Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch40 conference is happening today up in San Francisco, here’s the local startups I’ve seen so far on the list: mEgo (Los Angeles, social networking) DocStoc (Los Angeles, document sharing) App2You (La Jolla, hosted software) (Updated) Metaplace, aka Areae (San Diego, massively multiplayer software) (Updated) Orgoo (Los Angeles, mobile webmail) Elsewhere on the [...]
When you start to see a venture capitalist and an Internet publisher debate about an “API” and its importance to a company, you suddenly realize that there’s some silliness afoot in the world when an “API”– short for Application Programming Interface — is the latest buzzword. Perhaps it’s all been driven by the hype over [...]
Santa Monica’s ThisNext has just put up a new real-time activity map on their web site, which shows what people are shopping/browsing for on Google Maps. Sort of interesting to watch. (as most people who read socalTECH know, we have our own map mashup of recent venture deals on our web site–though our map mashup [...]
John Dvorak has an interesting post on his thoughts on Bubble 2.0; and, a new site has launched which makes it obvious why I haven’t got what it takes to do a tech news videoblog.
I’ve been fairly amused to watch an entire economy (bubble?) build in manufactured scarcity over the last few months, based on invitations to beta releases of Web 2.0 services. This week, it seems to be the currency of trade is Pownce and Ooma; a few months ago it was Joost; there seems to be a [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
