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TEDxGoldenGatePark 'Pursuit of Passion' Is Tommorow
I'm heading over to the wonderful De Young Museum Wednesday morning for TEDxGoldenGatePark in the Koret Auditorium.
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The Russians Are Coming To Silicon Valley- A Showcase Of Investment Ideas
About five years ago I met with a large Russian delegation on a fact-finding trip to Silicon Valley, hoping to learn from the region's success and build similar innovation centers in Russia.A key goal...
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LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman Awarded David Packard Lifetime Acheivement Medal
Reid Hoffman (above), one of Silicon Valley's most successful investors and innovators, has received the 54th David Packard Medal of Achievement Award from TechAmerica.Also:- Michael Fertik , Founder...
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8thBridge: Shopping With The Anti-Social
Social shopping has very little appeal to me and I don't see much of a business model, but maybe that's just me.However, if there are any social shopper enthusiasts among my readers, you'll be able to...
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Publishers Herding After 'Crazy' Techmeme Model
Jason Del Rey at Ad Age reports on Business Insider's "crazy new strategy" that it will start publishing content from advertisers (isn't that an ad?).Here's Business Insider's Crazy New Strategy to...
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Committee To Protect Journalists And Theil Foundation Celebrates Muckraking...
I popped into Harry Denton's Starlight room on top of the Sir Francis Drake for an event organized by the Committee to Protect Journalists and The Thiel Foundation honoring leading African journalists...
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Out&About: Eastwick's Social By Design; GAFFTA UP Festival
I popped into Eastwick Communications's stylish San Francisco office, (complete with white marble bathrooms and Italian lighting) for a panel organized to introduce Eastwick's SocialXDesign, a...
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Enterprise Ireland: Dublin's Rapidly Growing Web Summit - Europe's Largest...
Above, brief interview with Kevin Sherry and Nick Marmion of Enterprise Ireland at Disrupt in San Francisco, with Gene Murphy from the Irish start-up RedeamAndGet - shot by by Paul Mooney.I'm in Dublin...
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Dublin Web Summit - Ireland's Bright Spot In A Troubled Economy
Ireland's economy is retrenching from fast growth over the past decade when the "Celtic Tiger" produced one of the richest standards of living. While there is a lot of doom and gloom in Dublin, the...
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Big Exits Make Ireland's Serial Entrepreneurs - Pride In Irish Teams
My first night in Dublin for the Web Summit was to kick off with drinks, in advance of a pub crawl, which was to lead to a big dinner for attendees, and then after-hours drinks. Fortunately for my...
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Irish Entrepreneurs: Serial Founders And Flounders...
At the Dublin Web Summit there's an ever expanding group of successful entrepreneurs that have founded great companies and won very large exits. There's also many founders who have floundered but are...
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Dublin Web Summit - Some Notes And Images From Ireland's Tech Community
I met a lot of very impressive Irish entrepreneurs on my recent visit to the Dublin Web Summit. Here's some notes from our conversations (at least the ones I remember, due to a delicious local brew...
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Exclusive: NASDAQ Plans To Unify Private Shares Markets
NASDAQ has plans to unify US private shares markets and introduce set periodic trading periods in a bid to reduce volatility and improve liquidity in shares of startups.
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Can PR People Become Brand Journalists? What Is It?
I'm in Miami this week taking part in the Holmes Global PR Summit and the topic of "Brand Journalism." I know nothing about the subject but no one else does either because it's a made up term that is...
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Brand Journalism And The Unstoppable Rise Of Corporate Media
Last week's panel on brand journalism at the Holmes Report's Global PR Summit in Miami was fabulous. We lost control of the conversation and made so much noise in our room, people from other panels...
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Is Corporate Media The New Funding Model For Serious Journalism?
As the business models for serious journalism continue to erode where will we get the quality media we need as a society to make important decisions about our future?I've been warning people: "Special...
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Society For New Communications Research Awards Gala
I'm honored to be a Founding Fellow at the Palo Alto based think-tank the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) founded by the amazing Jen McClure. This evening SNCR hosts a gala awards dinner...
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Intel Itanium Will Merge With Xeon line, HP Announces Mission Critical Systems
The Intel Itanium microprocessor architecture will be merged with Xeon microprocessors sharing essential on-chip features but will remain a distinct product, in a bid to reduce development costs and...
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Viddy's 15-second Video "Tweets" - Video For The Mobile Age
"I think 100 percent of innovation is driven by your ability to fail quickly and your ability to learn [from it] and evolve," says JJ Aguhob, Viddy president and co-founder.Viddy President JJ Aguhob...
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Out&About: SNCR's 2012 Awards Gala
Katie Paine from KDPaine and Partners received three awards, with MC Paul Gillin.I recently attended the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) 2012 Awards event and conference. I love the...
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