Former Valleywag editor Owen Thomas is joining a web-based media startup called The Daily Dot, co-founded by Nova Spivack and Valley PR guy Josh Jones-Dilworth. Details about what the site will do are vague, Thomas admitted in an interview, but it will be about online communities. Read more »
Is the emergence of the real-time web a sign of a society obsessed with the present? From Twitter to Facebook, signs indicate as much, and this is redefining the idea of Now and how it impacts everything from innovation to how we live. Read more »
The web is now host to many live events — streaming video, virtual worlds meetings, online sample sales — but there’s no grid to tell us where it all lives and what’s on at any one time. That’s what Live Matrix wants to do. Read more »
