Archive for May, 2007

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Reporter’s Notebook: At the D conference, D is for digital dons

Om Malik, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 11:40 PM PT Comments (6)

Carlsbad, California: Every year for past five years, Wall Street Journal columnists Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher put on the swankest show in tech, the D conference. It is a carefully curated gathering of some of the most famous (infamous) and the powerful names from the world of technology, finance and media.
The conference, now in [...]

EveryScape attempts to create the 3D Web

Wagner James Au, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 11:09 PM PT Comments (3)

Nicely timed to compete with Google’s Street Views, a Massachusetts-based company working in stealth mode just launched a demo of their technology. Right now, going to EveryScape offers you an immersive, 3D exploration of San Francisco’s Union Square, though a spokeswoman tells me they intend to have the full city available in September, followed [...]

Open Thread: Now what would you do with bandwidth, if you had it

Om Malik, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 10:30 AM PT Comments (38)

It is not the first time I have indulged in navel gazing about what is broadband, how much bandwidth is enough, and what are you really going to do with it. Business Week is having a similar moment, wondering what will you do with all that bandwidth folks like Verizon are promising.
Will it be gaming [...]

How to Build Your Personal Brand Online?

Om Malik, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 10:22 AM PT Comments (4)

Whether you are an employee or a freelancer, you need to manage your personal brand. Of course you’ll think of using the web to do so. But does that mean shelling out money for search engine optimization, for pay-per-click ads that drive potential customers or employers to your website, for a professionally-designed website? Continue Reading.

Crib Sheet for Co-founder Finding

xavier, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 10:12 AM PT Comments (0)

We’ve posted a few pieces addressing the challenges of picking your co-founder. Other posts have taken a stab at the best methods for finding a partner — can founders be matched to one another? Below is a crib sheet with tips for what to look for, as well as what to avoid, when selecting a […]

Google Maps Goes Streetside

Katie Fehrenbacher, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 9:28 AM PT Comments (22)

Update: Google launched a street view mapping feature for several cities this morning at the Where 2.0 conference, and GigaTeam is pretty excited about checking out the views around our own San Francisco digs. We just chatted with John Hanke, Google’s Director of Google Earth and Google Maps, after his presentation at the conference and […]

Is it OK for investors to demand an annual dividend on their investment?

thechef, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 8:33 AM PT Comments (0)

My privately-held software services company was offered $1.5 million by an investor for a straight percentage of the firm. It’s our first round of outside investment and it is designed to help us expand our marketing to really lock up the sectors we operate in and expand into some new ones.

We can grok most of […]

Avaya, bit by IP, maybe up for sale

Om Malik, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 7:49 AM PT Comments (2)

Avaya, the stock (AV), has been range bound, trading between $10-and-$15 a share, for nearly two years, indicating a general apathy investors have for the enterprise telephony company, that as part of AT&T, was at the pinnacle of telecom mountain. It is hardly a surprise that Avaya reportedly is on the block – looking to […]

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