TechNet organized an innovation summit at Google’s Mountain View Campus yesterday. The tech elite such as Bill Joy, John Chambers, Eric Schmidt, Paul Otellini, John Doerr, Terry Semel, Carly Fiorna, and more. Michael Beazley of the San Jose Mercury News covered the event. Charlie Rose moderated the panels and The Charlie Rose Show will air four episodes this from the event, starting with John Doerr, Bill Joy, and Jeff Taylor tonight. Eric Schmidt said “the next killer device is clearly a personal one” and he favors a data iPod holding the world’s information….
Category Archives: General news
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Mercury News interview
Matt Marshall of the San Jose Mercury News recently visited venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to interview partners John Doerr, Brook Byers and Ray Lane. Companies stay in stealth mode longer to discourage clone ventures. Most companies come out of stealth with about 100 employees. People like joining stealth projects, and companies already know who they want for their first 100 employees. Brook Byers: Network was a thing of the 1990s. I don’t know what it is now. John Doerr : It’s the blog….
F-16 fires on elementary school
Associated Press: “A National Guard F-16 fighter jet on a nighttime training mission strafed an elementary school with 25 rounds of ammunition.” The firing range is three and a half miles from the school….
Election Day
Today is election day in the United States. While the presidential election receives the most attention, I spent most of my time reviewing local and state propositions. 31 propositions ranging from a position on the war in Iraq to children’s hospital funding. Time to elect a President, Senator, House member, school board, and more. If George W. Bush wins today’s election I expect San Francisco to erupt in riots….
Suspicious package at Embarcadero station
A suspicious business envelope, standard overnight envelope size from on the street police information I could obtain, was found at the Embarcadero MUNI station late morning. By 11:45 a.m. the San Francisco police department had closed Market Street for two blocks from Main Street to Fremont Street as well as half a block to a full block for side streets. Not much known right now, but a lot of office workers are heading out for lunch to find Market Street cordoned off by police tape. Update: Bay City News reports a “white cylindrical container with black end caps, was found…
Terry Gross interview on Salon.com
David Talbot of Salon.com interviewed Terry Gross about her 29 years hosting Fresh Air and her views on the journalistic process. She talks about the difficulties of interviewing Bill O’Reilly, Paul McCartney, and Sean Penn. It is interesting the work that goes into preparing each show such as reading a guest’s book and knowing the right way to work yourself into a subject area they might not want to spend too much time addressing. Terry Gross is currently new book, “All I Did Was Ask.” I think of myself as being a member of the first generation of women who…
AlwaysOn the magazine
AlwaysOn will introduce a quarterly print magazine. Over “50 percent of the content in the issues come either from AO members or will be posts that our members considered the most valuable. In this way, our community is both transparent and plays an active editorial role in the content we publish.” AlwaysOn is the first weblog site to spin into a magazine….
The environmental savings of digital news
Researchers at UC Berkeley researched the environmental impact of reading a newspaper on a PDA versus in reading the paper form. [I]f just a quarter of newspaper readers around the country switched to reading the news on their PDA, they’d generate just two to three percent of the carbon dioxide that would have resulted from the 14 million print newspapers they no longer need. A good argument for syndicated feeds!…
Red Herring on Joyce Park’s Friendster firing
Red Herring has an article about Joyce Park’s termination by Friendster for blogging. In just five business days, Ms. Park estimates that at least two dozen Silicon Valley employers – including Friendster’s most prominent competitors – deluged her with job offers. Good to see things worked out well for Joyce. She definitely received a lot of help sending the word out to employers that she is looking for a new job….
Presidential brand association
The Presidential ImagePower study from branding company Landor Associates and research firm Penn, Schoen and Berland revealed the perceptions of George W. Bush and John Kerry by undecided voters. 1,262 Internet survey respondents associated brands with the candidates. George W. Bush was the unanimous choice for Ford, IBM, and Bud Light….