Skyrider, a commercial peer-to-peer startup, has taken a bridge round of financing and undergone an executive shakeup. CEO Ed Kozel has given up his role to co-founder Ori Cohen, and COO Katie Mitic (formerly VP of marketing) has left the company. Mountain View-based Skyrider has raised […] Read more »
I am very happy to report that a special delivery arrived this evening! Welcome to the world my second grandson, Bo Douglas Hemmingson, born this evening in South Dakota. Mother Misty and father Kurt are doing well as is young Bo who weighed in at 7 […] Read more »
Even though my company, Altos Research, isn’t actively seeking capital, I had breakfast the other day with a venture guy at Buck’s in Woodside, Calif. VCs can be very useful for strategic advice even if — or, especially when — you don’t want their money. Interestingly, […] Read more »
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It is still not clear what is going to happen to Xohm, Sprint’s planned WiMAX service. Will it be put on ice, or will it become part of a new company with backing from Silicon Valley giants like Intel? One thing is becoming increasingly clear: Unlike […] Read more »
I have now been playing with Netfront 3.5 from Access for a day and want to share my impressions of how well it works on the HTC Advantage. The Advantage has a 5 inch VGA screen that screams for a good browser and so far Netfront […] Read more »
The Everex CloudBook sub-notebook might be delayed, but if you want the gOS experience it will offer, why not take a CloudBook competitor and load it up? The installation steps appear to be fairly straightforward for the Asus Eee PC based on this list at Cheap […] Read more »
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One of the first places we stopped last night was the Celio booth to see the Redfly device. We showed you a quick pic right from the booth in near real-time, and based on reader comments, it sounds like there’s some interest in the unit. We […] Read more »
We already knew that A-Data was planning a 2.5-inch, 128-GB Solid State Disk, but the company just announced an SSD drive for the 1.8-inch market as well. The smaller drive will be available in 32- and 64-GB capacities in a standard SATA or PATA interface, along […] Read more »
It was only last month that we questioned whether HD online mattered, and Om asked last summer if web video was ready for an upgrade. From the flurry of recent announcements, it looks like the answer to both question is “yes.” Forget HD being the hot […] Read more »
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Harry Potter fans can perform a little magic of their own tomorrow when they purchase the Order of the Phoenix DVD, as it comes with a downloadable version of the movie that can be transferred to a PC or portable device. And Harry isn’t alone. Last […] Read more »
Marc Orchant- 1957 – 2007 I first came in contact with Marc Orchant about four years ago. I had followed his writings on his blog, Marc’s Outlook on Productivity and realized he was a very bright guy that I would probably like to know. It was […] Read more »
From Oliver Starr: UPDATE: 8:18AM Pacific Time, December 9th, 2007 From Sue Orchant: If the outpouring of love, support andcaring could heal Marc, he would be with us telling stories right now.Today we are going to make Marc more comfortable. Friends came by allday yesterday with […] Read more »
WebWorkerDaily: Our first WWD contest. Answer the question – What role will the web worker play in global economy in 2008 – and win a keyboard-mouse set. Earth2Tech: Tesla Musical Chairs: Who’s In, Who’s Out. What its all about. Earth2tech: Vinod Khosla, caught on tape saying, […] Read more »
New Chip Promises Low-Cost Satellite Set-Top Boxes; the new single-chip Broadcom BCM7325, made using the 65-nanometer process, helps reduce the number of components needed for set-top boxes. (release) Nielsen Gets Into Anti-Piracy; ratings company rolling out a new online video policing service which it hopes to […] Read more »
Although the online video experience would appear to be this mythical, multilateral, interactive video utopia, the reality is, in fact, quite different. Because while it’s certainly possible for a network of collaborative video artists to work together, online, to piece together a long-term video mosaic of […] Read more »
We do a lot of videos on jkOnTheRun but only this year started posting them on YouTube to see what would happen. What happened is that today we’ll pass over 260,000 views on YouTube which is just phenomenal and hard for Kevin and I to believe. […] Read more »
Over Thanksgiving weekend, Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke exclusively hosted Speechless, a series of short videos starring A-list talent that was produced and conceived by B-list talent and designed to promote United Hollywood‘s position by dramatizing the impact of the writers’ strike on the art form. “For […] Read more »
DigiTimes recently interviewed Jonney Shih, CEO of Asustek and Jonathan Tseng, president of Asustek on the Asus Eee PC and there’s some interesting viewpoints in there, not to mention some aggressive sales numbers. The whole interview is here for your reading pleasure; see if you have […] Read more »
This post has been written and posted from my iPod Touch. I haven’t seen anyone else make this claim so I’m calling this the first blog post from an iPod. :) Read more »
Advertising tries to wrap its mind around web video. Moderator: Jeremy Liew, Lightspeed Venture Partners Speakers: Jayant Kadambi, YuMe; Tod Sacerdoti, BrightRoll; Matt Sanchez, VideoEgg; Matt Wasserlauf, Broadband Enterprises. JEREMY: Not so much *if* money in the long tail, but *how*? (They’re all doing haikus, will […] Read more »
I never quite understood Apple’s decision to include RSS support in Safari, but not in Apple Mail. Other mail clients such as Thunderbird have offered this support for years, but I just couldn’t bring myself to use them. They had never offered the power Mail did, […] Read more »
Silicon Valley’s electric car startup Tesla has a roster of celebrity customers that have signed up to buy the $100,000 eye-candy feel-good vehicle — George Clooney, Matt Damon, Gavin Newsom. The latest star customer to blog about a recent test drive is everybody’s favorite Red Hot […] Read more »
The entire suite of NBC Universal’s (GE) media properties is going on a green offensive this week with the tagline “Green is Universal.” The campaign is designed to raise environmental awareness and will highlight things viewers can do to live greener. Green will be seen all […] Read more »
I’m not the biggest fan of Apple’s ear buds, or headphones of any kind for that matter, so when I received JLab’s MiniBlaster to review, I was pretty stoked, but, I was pretty sure I’d be disappointed. These speakers are small (about the size of 4 […] Read more »
If you live in a hermetically-sealed, media-free bubble, then you might not be aware that the Writers Guild of America (WGA) made good on its threat and went on strike this morning. We’ve followed the story extensively, but here’s a quick roundup of other coverage currently […] Read more »
I am off to the Web 2.0 Summit and my video panel today and won’t get a chance to write anything till much later. Meanwhile, here are a handful of picks from our network that might be worth your time: * Earth2Tech: Crash testing Teslas is […] Read more »
NewTeeVee is just about 10 months old, and it’s time for us to bring it to the next level. We’re hosting a one-day live-action conference in San Francisco on November 14: NewTeeVee Live. We’re not quite ready to release the final schedule yet, but we have […] Read more »
Saturday Night Live online video star Andy Samberg had one of his famous digital shorts run during the show’s season opener this weekend, a ditty referencing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent visit to New York in which the leader made a public remark attesting to the […] Read more »
In a move that could herald a new age in online content production, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) announced that the actors in the new online series Quarterlife, are covered by the Union’s contract. This means that performers in the highly-anticipated series will be eligible for […] Read more »
Time Warner Investments has joined the Series A round of video advertising startup ScanScout. The amount of the investment was not disclosed, though the round had originally netted $7 million in May from General Catalyst Parters, Ron Conway, and First Round Capital. We spoke with ScanScout […] Read more »
Listen here ( MP3, 17.7 MB, 51 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link (RSS) Marc Orchant and James Kendrickare back with show #40, yes, Marc is back for this show! Our hostshave a typically far-ranging discussion that covers diverse topicsrelating to the Tabletscape. […] Read more »
If you’re a fan of the San Francisco Giants and iTunes, you should know that sfgiants.com — the official online store for the San Francisco Giants — is offering five free iTunes downloads to the first 1,000 customers to spend $75 or more on select back […] Read more »
The CookBook application which was one of the 3 top spots in the My Dream App competition has some updated details. The pictures sure are pretty, and it looks like things are really coming together nicely. From the post, it sounds like it’s nearly decided to […] Read more »
Happy Independence Day to all out US readers. To our international friends, since it is a national holiday, we are taking the day off. I am flying back from Israel, and will be offline for most of today, and regular programming will resume tomorrow afternoon, if […] Read more »
It shouldn’t come as a surprise: Sean Parker, co-founder of Project Agape is launching a limited edition version of his activist tool on Facebook, the last start-up he was affiliated with as founding president. The new tool is called, Causes for Facebook, and is seamlessly integrated […] Read more »
A few days ago I had breakfast with Peter Levinsohn, President of Fox Interactive Media, days after Rupert Murdoch made a $5 billion bid for Dow Jones. We chatted about a variety of topics, but most of them were off the record. One bit I got […] Read more »
Most of us in Silicon Valley dream of founding a company, but few of us will succeed. Statistics long-ago established that most businesses fail—and it is a tribute to entrepreneurs that this does not dissuade us. There are many well-known explanations for failure: market timing; product […] Read more »
Your foray into web work may have started something like this: You were too valuable to lose, and your manager went to bat to allow you to work remotely. Or maybe your work was well-suited to web work styles, so there wasn’t any question of you […] Read more »
Cinequest, an annual film festival currently showing in San Jose, California, has signed up with Azureus’ content portal, Zudeo, to feature content from the festival online. While Cinequest has featured content on the web since 2004, using a P2P model has the potential to reduce considerable […] Read more »
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