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[Translate] Miley at Instagram SFThe Miley Cyrus “We Cant Stop” SF Social Media Tour caused the singing and acting and social media icon to do with the Social Media Industry, what celebs have done with the TV industry in decades past. Then, a celeb would fly to New York City or LA to do the “talk show circuit, and promote their movie or tv show or music. Well, Miley Cyrus did just that on Monday, except that she flew up to San Francisco using the trendy, social media savvy, Blackjet private set service, and visited...
[Translate] Tioki.comTioki.com is not a virtual tiki bar. The Linkedin model is an undoutedly successful one, so would be just a matter of time before someone developed a site that has the same intent, but is focused on one industry, like education. That startup company, backed by Mitch Kapor (Lotus fame) and 500 Startups, has been around for about two years and was founded by Brian Martinez and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge. It’s called Tioki.com and it’s based in Downtown Oakland. What Tioki.com does is allow people...
[Translate] Jason Calacanis has an issue, which is unfortunate. In an unnecessary response to my blog post (Jason Calacanis: Ah, Gawker, Mr. C Knows There’s Racism In Tech) pointing to several encounters with me which proved that, contrary to his assertions in Gawker, he does see that there’s a race problem, just chooses to do nothing about it, the creator of the blog network that he then sold to AOL for $25 million elected to visit said blog post and call me a jerk. Now here’s the deal. While I’ve certainly...
[Translate] Steve Jobs is no longer of this Earth, and while your response may be ‘He never was, even when he was here,’ the bottom line is Mr. Jobs is no longer around to scream about and wage war against Adobe Flash on the Apple iOS operating system. Given that, and his well documented reasons for preferring HTML5 to Adobe Flash, would Mr. Jobs have done an about-face and hired Adobe’s former Flash guru Kevin Lynch, as was done last month? Yep, Kevin Lynch, the same guy who starred in this parody video in 2009: Jobs...
[Translate] Ah, gone are the days when IGDA parties were simple affairs where you had cocktails, met interesting people, and OK, interesting females-in-tech, and here are the days, or at least this week, where we have news of a party that bent what I thought were the unwritten rules of GDC / IGDA events: don’t piss off anyone. UPDATE: YetiZen CEO Wrongly Accused Of Offensive Party – Read By Clicking Here. The last IGDA Party I attended, I interviewed this painter guy from SF: And other than his work, the party was just...
[Translate] On January 23rd 2013 this blogger was contacted by Vinay Patankar, the Founder and CEO of a new microvlog app called Vitoto regarding trying out the app, and providing feed back on his product. I sent an email reply, and then took one look at the app, figuring I would blog about it at some point in the very near future. And I say very near future, because the microvideo industry is growing by leaps and bounds. Vitoto was a relatively unknown player in a crowded field that includes Tout, Socialcam, Viddy, Shoutz, Vidoco,...
[Translate] AutoReturn, the towing company that has been featured in this space before, is announcing a new cloud-based municipal operations technology called ARIED Online. Here’s the full press release: AutoReturn, the nation’s leading municipal towing management and logistics company, today announced the successful implementation of the company’s cloud-based technology, ARIES Online, as a stand-alone technology offering to the City of Concord. “We are pleased to bring this technology to municipalities around the country...
[Translate] Want proof that Twitter’s become the World’s information source? Read on. So this blogger, me, took his common several time a day look at Google Trends for Monday, March 11th and found that sitting right at number one position was “Mother’s Day.” A click on the link for that Google “hot search” revealed content, blogs, and articles, written with “Mother’s Day” in the title. And Google News, which claims to show the news that’s happening in real time,...
[Translate] Foursquare, the popular location-based social networ, is broken. This blogger makes such an assertion because someone named JaxonP has managed to fraudulently insert themselves in mayor of Lakeshore Cafe, the popular eatery in the Tresle Glen area of Oakland. Trouble is, he has just 14 checkins in 60 days, whereas I have 36 checkins over the same period. Moreover, I was at Lakeshore Cafe yesterday, and the day before, and many times last week and never saw evidence of this JaxonP, and staff has never seen him or heard...
[Translate] This infographic released last fall from the 100 Million Club, the watchlist of the top mobile platforms and handset manufacturers, has some information that puts the size and growth of the industry in perspective. From the publisher: - Smartphone sales penetration continues to accelerate, growing from nearly 30% in Q3 2011 to nearly 40% in Q2 2012 - Nearly 2 out of every 3 smartphones shipped in H1 2012 were Android devices - Despite low device sales, the Windows platform already has over 100K available apps in Windows...
[Translate] Stickam Livestream will go out of business on February 28th. That’s the sad but not surprising news from an email just received 10 minutes ago. This blogger joined Stickam in 2005, and placed its livestream blog widget on the older, Blogger version of Zennie62, but never used it; USTREAM provided a better livestream platform for our purposes, and we used it at the 2007 NFL Draft. But when I think of Stickam, I think of Jessi Slaughter. To understand why, and who Jessi Slaughter is or was, read on. Here is the...
