It’s been a crazy weekend. One of the highlights came Friday night when I was invited to Michael (TechCrunch) Arrington’s place for one of his vaunted tech gatherings. This one was a book release party for Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, authors of “Naked Conversations,” about how businesses can better understand the blog world. A […]
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Report from Under the Radar
Had a grand time at last night’s Under the Radar event at Fenwick West in Mountain View, where four startup founders showcased their video and vlogging technologies. Snapped these three photos with my Nokia N90 smart phone. I happened to know all four presenters: Mary Hodder of Bloqx gave the first public showing of Dabble, […]
SXSW fever rising
Got back a little while ago from tonight’s first West Coast pre-conference party for South by Southwest, at the Minna Gallery in San Francisco. I’ll be leading a panel on darknets there on March 13. The Minna was packed tonight with 200 geeks and geek sympathizers. Among those I chatted up: Hugh Forrest, Kevin Smokler, […]
Macworld 2006 photos and highlights
I attended the annual Macworld convention in San Francisco today for the fourth time — and took 27 photos so far. The only sour note of the day came in the morning, when Apple’s PR execs prevented Henrik, Carla and me from handing out 800 Ourmedia flyers to Macworld attendees in front of the Moscone […]
Top 10 Tech Transformations of 2005
Everyone else is making Best of 2005 top 10 lists, so here’s a quick list of Top 10 ways in which technology has impacted our culture during 2005, in no particular order. I didn’t check any other writer’s lists, so I probably missed some big ones. 1. The edges gain power. From the video and […]