Tom Foremski
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Stellar Lineup For Churchill Club’s WikiLeaks Panel
This will be very interesting: on Wednesday Silicon Valley’s Churchill Club is hosting: WikiLeaks: Why it Matters. Why it Doesn’t? A stellar panel: – Daniel Ellsberg, Former State and Defense Dept. Official prosecuted for releasing the Pentagon Papers. – Clay Shirky, Independent Internet Professional; Adjunct Professor, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University. – Neville Roy ...
Is Curation The Answer To Search Spam?
Much has been written lately about the lower quality of Google’s search results. A poll by Lifehacker found that 77% agreed that Google search results had “become less useful to you lately.” If search is becoming less useful then how will we navigate the web? The answer is by curation, by using the recommendations of ...
“Silicon Valley” Turns 40 – Do We Need it?
David Laws writes at the Examiner: January 11, 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of the first appearance of the name Silicon Valley in print. Under the headline SILICON VALLEY USA, journalist Don C. Hoefler wrote the first of a three-part series on the history of the semiconductor industry in the Bay Area. His behind the ...
Facebook: How To Raise Money Without Raising Oversight
There are some similarities between Google’s IPO (Initial Public Offering) and Facebook’s attempts at an Initial Private Offering with its recent Goldman deal. The similarity is that Google didn’t want too much oversight or influence on its management by outsiders, and clearly, Facebook wants the same deal. When Google filed for its IPO in 2004 ...
Financial Times Launches Tilt
The Financial Times today launched “FT Tilt” a subscription based site focused on emerging markets. Paul Murphy, editor-in-chief of FT Tilt explained the name of the new site: Recent years have seen economic power shift—or tilt—south and east. This trend is accelerating rather than diminishing and we see strong demand from our core professional readers ...
Facebook Valuation Shows Conditions For IPOs Are Ripe
The high valuation of Facebook on secondary share markets might be out of line with its revenues but it does show one thing: a large investor appetite for investing in leading Silicon Valley companies. The fact that the investors are making large bets without having access to the underlying financial information is similar to the ...
VC Interview: Bob Ackerman Warns On Secondary Market Excess
I spoke with Bob Ackerman, managing director of Allegis Capital and a veteran Silicon Valley venture capitalist about some of the trends and issues in VC. He spoke about his concerns about the secondary market, and that innovation in the US is being constrained by bad regulations, taxation and poor education. Here are some notes ...
iPad Magazine Sales Drop Steeply As iPad Sales Soar
Laura June at Engadget reports: According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, which collects magazine circulation data from companies willing to furnish numbers, all iPad magazines have seen fall offs in downloads over the past few months. Wired was averaging 31,000 downloads from July through September, had 22,000 and 23,000 respectively in October and November. ...
MIT Sloan MBA Students Head To Silicon Valley
They call themselves “Tech Treckkers” – the group of MIT Sloan MBA students making an annual trip to Silicon Valley to look for jobs and network with alumni. About 120 MIT Sloan students will arrive in Silicon Valley in the first week of 2011 with a reception at the Computer History Museum on Jan 3rd ...
PRwatch: No More Links
I used to be puzzled about why PR people are so miserly about including links into their news releases and emails. Even those PR people that know that they should…often don’t. Yet links are a key Internet currency. Why don’t they understand this?! And I’m fed up of adding links to my posts about their ...