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Blekko Slash Search – All Sizzle, No Steak
Blekko launched their much hyped about search engine this week. In classic super funded VC backed startup fashion they put tons of cash into their launch. It reminds me of the last search engine that claimed to be the next big thing in search. Remember Cuil? Cuil had the big splash hyping up their new ...
I’m Running for Twitter: My Randy Moss Style Press Conference (With Myself)
As we all know, tomorrow is election day here in America. So in the spirit of democracy, I have decided to campaign for the privilege of running Twitter. I will now present you with my platform, which will explain what Twitter needs to do to be successful. In the interest of expediency, I will do ...
Facebook to Make Mobile Announcement this Tuesday
Facebook just sent out a round of invites to a mysterious mobile announcement event they’ll be hosting on Tuesday morning, and we just got ours. The blogosphere seems to think it has something to do with the “long rumored Facebook phone,” as CNet’s Josh Lowensohn put it. The fact that Facebook has repeatedly and flatly ...
Twitter Analytics Lead Kevin Weil Inside theCube – An Interview at Hadoop World 2010
This is a transcription of analytics lead for Twitter Kevin Weil, at HadoopWorld 2010. conducted by Wikibon.com Co-Founder David Vellante and SiliconAngle Founder John Furrier live broadcast at Hadoop World on SiliconAngle.tv. Because this is a transcript and not intended as an article, speakers are identified by their initials. JF: So you gave a talk, ...
Christine Herron Leaves First Round Capital Joins Intel Capital
Christine Herron a venture capitalist at First Round Capital is leaving to join Intel Capital according to her tweets and blog post. She is moving on from her "first round" as a venture capitalist to her "second stint" at Intel Capital. Her main charter will be to drive the Intel consumer and Internet deals from ...
Cloud Collision – Trends in Storage Which Will Drive More Cloud & Mobile Adoption and Better User Experience
I’ve been deep in the storage and cloud world for the past year tracking some of the hottest trends with market leaders like EMC, Fusionio, Compellent, Falconstor, HP, IBM, and others. One thing is clear: storage is sexy and hot. Some recent news got my attention and prompted me to write about some of the ...
HP Slate and HP Converged Networks Poised For The Future
HP is not stopping it’s plans to be a leader in technology even among all the tainted press received from the tainted Mark Hurd era. HP is bringing the consumer and converged networking story together. HP has at last revealed its long-awaited Slate, an 8.9-inch tablet with capacitive multi-touch and running Windows 7. This is ...
President Obama Silicon Valley Visit – Obama Friends Marissa Mayer For Fundraiser – No Evil Please
Palo Alto streets will be closed tonight from 5-8pm in preparation for tonight’s scheduled fundraising visit by President Barack Obama to the home of Google executive Marissa Mayer. Marissa lives right around the corner from me so I might do a fly by. I’ve been to Marissa’s house before as she is known for throwing ...
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers KPCB $250 Million Social Venture Fund
Today, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) today announced the formation of their new sFund, a new $250 million initiative to invest in entrepreneurs inventing social applications and services. KPCB is flexing its muscle in Silicon Valley off the success of the $100 million iFund to finance iPhone application development, which was later increased to ...
Video Interview: Bank of America on Big Data and the second industrial revolution – Transcript
This is a transcription of an interview of Abhishek Mehta, managing director for big data and analytics for Bank of America on SiliconAngle.tv in which he discusses the disruptive nature of big data, which is 95% unstructured, the primacy of data in all businsses and how we are entering the second great industrial revolution with ...