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Aaron Swartz Memorial in SF - Our First Digital Liberties Martyr?
I attended the Aaron Swartz memorial Thursday evening at the Internet Archive building (above) in San Francisco where several hundred people gathered to mourn his passing.It was an excellent turnout...
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Sequoia's Moritz Defends Apple
Apple versus Virgin Megastore, San Francisco 2009.Michael Moritz is chairman of Sequoia Capital, one of Silicon Valley's oldest and most successful VC firms. He's also a former journalist and he...
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Tax-Time Means Good Times For Cyber-Criminals
We're a sophisticated lot in Silicon Valley but it's still easy to get caught out sometimes. ThreatMatrix in San Jose, warns that cyber criminals could get to your refund before you do, if you file...
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Advice To Marketeers And Others Not On Facebook And/Or Twitter
I meet a lot of people in my job, many of them are in communications, marketing, or media, some of them hate Facebook and/or Twitter with passion.They typically say that they won't join because they...
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Can Pictures Of Cute Animals Calm Legal Threats?
Here's a hilarious exchange between David Galbraith and the legal eagles representing Lockheed Martin, threatening him over the ownership of a domain name:I registered designskunkworks.com, thinking it...
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Intel: The Software Company - Interview With Software Head Doug Fisher
Intel is a giant software company as well as the world's largest chip maker. Here's an interview with Doug Fisher (above) head of Intel's Systems Software group.By Intel Free PressMaking sure the...
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Crunchies 2012: Techmeme Wins Award And So Do Other, Mostly Older Startups
It was good to see Techmeme, the news aggregator, win an award Thursday evening for "Best Bootstrapped Startup." Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera (below).
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The Future Of Aaron Swartz And The Mystery Of The Missing Activists
Last night, Hamish McKenzie attended a memorial for Aaron Swartz, the young activist who committed suicide while being prosecuted for downloading millions of academic papers.He writes:Berin Szoka, the...
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From Silicon Valley To Media Valley - A Giant Gutenberg Machine Of...
Watch Silicon Valley on PBS. See more from American Experience.The superb American Experience documentary series on PBS finally cast its focus on Silicon Valley yesterday evening in an 82 minute...
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SpiderOak: A Simple Best Solution To Privacy In The Cloud
I recently met with Ethan Oberman (above) CEO and co-founder of SpiderOak, a cloud based data storage service used for backups or syncing data. It promises a very high level of security because...
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Unreasonable Institute: Startup Life On The Good Ship Entrepreneurship
The Colorado based Unreasonable Institute has taken entrepreneurship literally and put together more than 1,000 people: the founders of 11 startups, representatives from SAP and Microsoft, several...
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HP Moves Towards 'Fair Trade' Electronics Manufacture
Hewlett-Packard has issued new rules to its China based suppliers that affect students working in their factories.Keith Bradsher and David Barboza, report in the New York Times: Hewlett-Packard Joins...
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Welcome to Friday Guest Posts!
Fridays is when I'll be publishing some of the guest posts people send me. If you'd like to participate send them to editors@siliconvalleywatcher.com with "Guest post" in subject line somewhere. I...
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Take A Look Into Topix - Mass Bullying Across Thousands Of Small US Towns
By Virginia HogeMy name is Virginia Olive Hoge and I am in the strange and fated position of being one of the first people who noticed that something very alarming was happening on Topix.com. Over...
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Silicon Valley Leadership Group: Anne Smart On The Importance Of Cap And Trade
Here is the first of regular weekly Friday posts from Amy Seidman's Noble Profit, which interviews executives at companies that are striving for a better way of building sustainable businesses.By Amy...
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Saturday Post: Corporate Media In The Bubble Of Content Inflation
My 2013 prediction warned of the continued fall in the value of online content which would lead to the production of ever more content as media companies tried to maintain ad revenues.You can think of...
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Richard Edelman At Churchill Club On Building Trust
Richard Edelman, the head of the world's largest privately held public relations firm, Edelman Public Relations, will be speaking at the Churchill Club this evening (February11) at the Computer History...
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Video: Edelman's Debate On 'Trust' At Churchill Club
Edelman PR sponsored a debate on "Trust" Monday evening at the Computer History Museum. Richard Edelman, CEO of Edelman PR discussed some of the findings of the 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer global...
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Edelman Global Survey Finds Lack Of Trust Has Become Contagious
From left: Peter Burrows, Eric Brown, Mary Dent, Richard Edelman, Jeffrey Pfeffer.Richard Edelman, the head of the world's largest privately held PR firm, said that the Edelman Trust Barometer, an...
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Say Hello To Visiting Ukrainian Startups - From Happy Farm
Danuta Pisarenko tells me there's a bunch of Ukrainian startups in town:I’m very excited to introduce Happy Farm, the only Ukrainian tech incubator where entrepreneurs live and work 24/7, that brings...
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