Advertising. Businss. Capital. Hopestreetgroup. Events. Search. Youtube. Om Malik on Broadband : » The New Office Space. After reading my rant about Starbucks and some of the comments on that post, Jackson sent in this guest column about how many are using indi-cafes in San Francisco as mobile office space. (Ritual is my favorite….) If you are not in San Francisco and have names of entrepreneur friendly locations you want others to know, leave the details/links to their location in the comments. If anyone wants to build a Google Map of all this, drop me a note. – Om By Jackson West.
Forget Palo Alto garages — San Francisco coffee shops are where to get your startup off the ground. Internet cafes are emerging as an important place to get work done, hold meetings and network. On Charter Street, Greg Olsen writes about “Going Bedouin.” My own experience helping to organize the WebZine conference pretty much echoed this. Of course, the business of coffee shops is to sell food and coffee, not to take the place of VC-run incubator offices. Ritual Coffee Roasters 1026 Valencia Street [map | site | yelp]
Tins ::: Rick Klau’s weblog » Direct Marketing conference. Shannon Whitley » SFWIN Recap. I approached the event tonight with a little bit of hesitation. I’ve been sick and didn’t really feel up to talking with a bunch of strangers. However, it turned out to be a good time, and I got to meet a lot of cool new people. My phobia of catered food was reinforced this evening. The little crackers and cucumber wedges didn’t make for much of a meal. Why can’t caterers just make regular food? I don’t want a mishmash of hominy, raisins, and chickpeas. I spoke with several very interesting people, and these are some of the companies they represented: Kosmix – Search Engine that has been getting great press from the Wall Street Journal and did well at DEMO.
I also watched a couple of demos. I really liked MindRetrieve. I’ll look forward to attending the next one of these. Technorati Tags: Bay Area , Networking , food , SFWIN , San Francisco , Kosmix , MeshForum , SuperViva , EarthCode. A Question about P2P Technologies - Blog Maverick. Peer to Peer technologies are getting more and more press lately. Verisign and Adobe signed a deal, The Venice Project, BIttorrent.com is announcing content deals, and of course there is the ever present treasure trove of illegal content available online via torrents.
The reason there has been excitement about P2P technologies built around BitTorrent type technology is simple. It saves bandwidth on file distribution and it creates the opportunity to speed the delivery of files, large or small. If it were able to live up to the hype, the notion is that how multimedia is distributed on the net, and its economics would change. I’m not as sure it will as some others are. The premise of the technically is to break up files into pieces and distribute those pieces on to the PCs of end users who have downloaded the BitTorrent type client. All good, right ? For people creating content. P2P technology expects the end user to contribute bandwidth, hard drive storage and processing power. 1. 2. 3. 4. Blog Archive » First Big Partner for Zudeo: BBC. Zudeo, the new “100% legal” content sharing site launched by popular BitTorrent company Azureus two weeks ago, just nailed a distribution deal with the BBC. That just took them from a theoretically cool product to a player in the online video space.
Under the agreement, BBC will license a number of television shows to U.S. users, including Red Dwarf, Strange and Invasion Earth, Little Britain, Doctor Who, Fawlty Towers, Coupling, Keeping Up Appearances, League of Gentlemen and Ideal. It is a tragedy that they didn’t include the only BBC show worth watching, The Office. Of course, that show is readily available on Azureus’ BitTorent client. The benefits of Zudeo are pretty clear to publishers, who can leverage P2P networks to substantially decrease bandwidth costs and speed downloads for users. This spells trouble for Pando and Red Swoosh, which offer competing products to publishers.
Smart person’s debate of OSX vs. Windows Vista « Scobleizer - Te. Un-Tech Gathering: Oh So Hard. « Video: Just Pure Fun | Main | US Venture Partners: Why PodTech? » April 06, 2006 Un-Tech Gathering: Oh So Hard A friend of mine wrote about an Un-Tech Gathering I had recently. I decided not to blog about it because nearly everyone who reads this blog is in the 'tech business.' He summarized it well however in a post called Luddite for a Night. I threw a bunch of non-technology related questions in a hat to help people stay on track. A few of the questions: If you could change genders for one week, what would be the first thing you would do? If you could have lunch with anyone living or dead, male and female, who would it be and what would you ask? If your could participate in any event in history, what would it be, and what role would you play? When you were a child, what did a parent or teacher say to you to change the course of your life? More on this concept in a future post.
April 6, 2006 in Events, On People & Life, On Technology | Permalink TrackBack Comments 4: "Goodbye" 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. Naked Conversations: Wells Fargo Starts a Blog. Very recently I wrote about corporate toe-dipping into the vast blogging ocean. I implied that most corporate bloggers, particularly those targeting mass markets had not yet found their paths, but they will.
Now comes Wells Fargo with Guided by History, a blog that brings the bank at least to ankle depth in the blogosphere. As I recall, Wells Fargo was the first bank to have a website, so I am impressed that they are a leader in the financial services pack to embracing important new technologies. This is a serious effort and clearly more than a little thinking has gone into this undertaking.
While other bloggers, Steve Rubel and Debbie Weil have been quick to embrace the Wells effort, I'm not quite there yet. But I am willing to hold their hand, or at least caress a fingertip or two. What I like about this blog is that it is written by a group of apparently approachable humans--at least the ones who have weighed in so far. All things considered, I think this is a good initial effort.
Joi Ito's Web: Joi TV. MX TV and Digital Garage approached me about hosting a TV show on MX TV's new terrestrial digital high definition broadcast channel. The market is quite small, covering only Tokyo and only viewable by people who have terrestrial digital tuners, but the good thing is that I'd be free to do just about anything I want. Starting July, they will broadcast to mobile phones with the proper tuners as well. Originally, the plan was to start in April, but I'm arguing that we should push the launch back to July when we have the mobile phone viewers.
This will also give me a bit more time to organize this. I've hosted TV shows in the past and I'm not particularly fond of them, but it sounded like I would have a lot of freedom and since it looks like they will agree to allowing me to license all of the content under a Creative Commons BY license, we could all use the footage for other stuff and maybe I could launch a video blog. I just set up a wiki page where I will be posting thoughts and ideas.