You may have heard of Akimbo by now. The San Mateo, Calif., startup has been quietly making programming alliances over the past year and fine-tuning its Internet television service. I hadn’t planned on getting an Akimbo box to add to my TiVo and DVD recorder setup, chiefly because I didn’t want to have to call […]
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GoingOn and Innovation Summit wrapup
Just uploaded to Ourmedia this video of the smart, amazing, terrifically talented Valerie Cunningham talking yesterday about the announcement of the coming launch of the new social networking site GoingOn. Following are my notes from yesterday’s AlwaysOn Innovation Summit at Stanford University. Tony Perkins and Marc Canter announced what I believe is a major step […]
Highlights from the Innovation Summit
I’m here on Day 3 of the AlwaysOn Innovation Summit at Stanford. Like last year, I’m concentrating on photos (see below and later above), and adding some video (on Ourmedia in a week or two) as well. Some nice coverage at TechCrunch. Much more at Technorati and at Feedster. Here are some of the best […]
Sandy Berger, Jerry Brown open AO Innovation Summit
Here are a handful of photos I took tonight at the AlwaysOn Innovation Summit at Stanford University. First, former national security advisory Sandy Berger: Next, Oakland Mayor, former governor and candidate for California attorney general Jerry Brown: I spoke with Brown at the reception afterward and reminded him of the previous time we’d met nearly […]
When we’re Internet consumers, not producers
Disappointing piece in today’s San Jose Mercury News Business section: “Internet speed battle heats up.” The article talks throughout about connection speeds. Notice how the media has adopted the language of Hollywood and the cable companies, which provide us with “content” for “surfing” the Web. Connection speeds, not download speeds. Not a single mention of […]