I’ll be speaking on a panel Monday at Digital Hollywood. Should be fast-moving and fun, given the wide scope of the topic: Personalized Media Platforms – Widgets, User Generated Media, News, Music, and Blogs When/Where: 3:45 pm at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel Panelists: Michael Spiegelmann, Senior Director, Yahoo! Music JD Lasica, Co-founder, OurMedia.org Chris […]
Web/Tech
High-speed Internet: the real deal
What’s your Internet connection speed? Here’s my story. Internet speeds abroad For years, many of us in Silicon Valley and elsewhere (like Dan Gillmor) have bemoaned the state of the broadband Internet in the United States. Here, for example, is a comparison of download speeds in various countries: Japan 61 megabits per secondSouth Korea 45.6 […]
Drupal: Open-source publishing
Drupal: open-source publishing from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I hung out Monday night with Dries Buytaert, founder and creator of Drupal, the open source content management system that is now powering tens of thousands of websites, including Ourmedia, The Onion, Sony Music artists (see myplay.com) and many others. Also spent time with Jay Batson, co-founder […]
Delver: A social search engine
The CEO of Delver discusses the new social search engine, which has some very interesting features you won’t find on other search engines, such as restaurant recommendations by your network of friends.
Blonde 2.0 on Silicon Valley and Israel
In this 9-minute video interview, Ayelet Noff talks about the tech and social media scenes in Israel and
Silicon Valley.