Tom Foremski
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We Live in The Age of Conversation Overload
I can deal with information overload — if I didn’t get to read that special article everyone is sharing then no big deal. But conversation overload is an entirely different thing. As a journalist I have trouble keeping up with the conversations in my email, yet today I have conversations everywhere and in new places. ...
Color And Cuil Headline FailCon Event
Coming up October 24 in San Francisco is the next FailCon— a conference that celebrates failure and its lessons — much like Silicon Valley where more than 90% of ventures fail. The organizers Cass Phillipps and Diane Loviglio just added Bill Nguyen, (above) founder of Color – (A $41m Bet On A Radical Social Mobile ...
RDIO CEO: “Spotify is a Unicorn.”
As Spotify, the hugely popular European online music service prepares for its imminent US launch, RDIO, a relatively new online music service, recently hosted a media roundtable at the swanky Boulevard Restaurant, in San Francisco, with top journalists from Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Financial Times, CNET, Forbes, Business Insider, Technologizer, and The Next Web. It ...
Matt Mullenweg On The Future Of Wordress
Named as one of the 25 most influential people on the web, Matt Mullenweg founded and runs an open source web platform that has revolutionized website publishing. WordPress began its life as free, open-source blogging software which quickly evolved into a general-purpose CMS used by millions of sites on the web. The success of WordPress ...
Interview With Vannesa Camones: It Pays To Out Silicon Valley Bullies
I recently spoke with Vanessa Camones, a Silicon Valley PR veteran and founder of theMIX agency about the reaction to her recent article about Mike Arrington, Editor of TechCrunch: DIGIDAY:DAILY – Entrepreneurs Should Say No to Silicon Valley’s Bully. One of my readers suggested that Vanessa’s surname become “Cojones” because of her bold position in ...
Leaving Silicon Valley…
Leaving Silicon Valley — I highly recommend it. I just got back from a week in London, speaking at an Omnicom conference and then a week in Warsaw (which was excellent). And I’m finding it difficult to get back into the swing of things. The problem is that every time I leave Silicon Valley for ...
Cisco Criticized for China Surveillance Project
Cisco Systems is helping the Chinese government build a massive surveillance system that will include more than 500,000 cameras. The Wall Street Journal reported that the “Peaceful Chongqing” project gets around US restrictions on US companies helping repressive foreign governments because it is billed as an “anti-crime” network. TechEye reported that several other companies had ...
Startup Launch: MyTab Offers Simple Group Travel Gifting
I’ve been consulting with Heddi Cundle and her new startup MyTab, which offers a very simple way friends and family can help fund travel for each other. MyTab takes the pain away from finding birthday, graduation, or anniversary gifts. The site is very much focused on gifting – “Put it on MyTab.” It also makes ...
It’s Time for the PR Community to Grow Some Cojones and Out Silicon Valley Bullies
Vanessa Camones is a veteran PR professional. She is the founder of theMIX agency and today she did a very bold thing: she outed one of Silicon Valley’s leading personalities, Mike Arrington, the editor of Techcrunch as a bully. In her post titled: DIGIDAY:DAILY – Entrepreneurs Should Say No to Silicon Valley’s Bully, she writes ...
Biz Stone’s Departure From Twitter Was Predictable
Earlier this year I predicted that Twitter co-founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone wouldn’t be around for long. How did I do this? It was simple: I looked at how much each of them used Twitter. The answer was not a lot, just one or two Tweets a day. Also, when I saw them speak ...