Silicon Valley Watch

Telemedicine for the masses

svad12 — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:24:03 +0000

Metaphor Watch: IF Silicon Valley = “New Motown” THEN Web = “hit factory”

svad12 — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:11:16 +0000

That mobile app Zuckerberg just joined: next Instagram?

svad12 — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:07:27 +0000

As Valley booms for in-demand players, more 99% families need “Extreme Makeover”

svad12 — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:03:06 +0000

Why spend $1B on Instagram? Despite his fabulous wealth, Zuckerberg reportedly “lives in perpetual anxiety, preoccupied by… fear”

svad12 — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 04:42:24 +0000

Only in the Valley: Apple Plans Off-Site Restaurant to Stop Competitors Stealing Secrets

svad12 — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:16:41 +0000

SFNewTech: Japanese Startups At Mighty

svad12 — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:12:08 +0000

Silicon Valley’s “Brogrammer” problem

svad12 — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:36:46 +0000

Pay to pivot? VCs invest in start-ups where the founders promise only to figure it out as they go along, no predetermined business plan!

svad12 — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:31:57 +0000

Interview with Stephen Hawking’s computer builder

svad12 — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:35:24 +0000

Digital camera + Mechanical Turk = Descriptive Camera = metadata text description of a scene

svad12 — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:11:37 +0000

“…Modern digital cameras capture gobs of parsable metadata about photos such as the camera’s settings, the location of the photo, the date, and time, but they don’t output any information about the content of the photo. The Descriptive Camera only outputs the metadata about the content. …”

More dirty laundry aired as Thomas Kinkade’s estate says the late artist’s girlfriend seeks ‘money and fame’

svad12 — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:53:57 +0000

No big Valley deals any time soon from Mark Cuban – why he hates it here (video)

svad12 — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:42:06 +0000

East vs West in book scanning competition

svad12 — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:25:48 +0000

CultureWatch: Traditional Arts + Modern Mix At JapanTown’s Cherry Blossom Festival

svad12 — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:04:53 +0000

Free: A Utopian Project starts Apr. 28, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland

svad12 — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:45:15 +0000

Don’t miss it, fabulous “free art” concept and event by Jocelyn Meggait

The Crisis of Big Science

svad12 — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:34:53 +0000

Only in the San Francisco zone of Greater Silicon Valley! A helpful, drunken flashmob.

svad12 — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:25:12 +0000

Thomas Kinkade’s widow asks court for restraining order against late painter’s girlfriend

svad12 — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:19:58 +0000

Now you and your friends can be the characters in a classic novel

svad12 — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:09:54 +0000

The fruit of easy, DIY publishing technology + the disintermediation of traditional book publishers

VC dream comes true: $250,000 investment yields how many tens of $ millions?

svad12 — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:50:45 +0000

VCs Invested $5.8B In 758 Deals In Q1 2012, Total Dollars And Deals Both Down From Last Quarter

svad12 — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:20:06 +0000

It’s A Tough Job: Finding Codenames For Intel Chips

svad12 — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:16:13 +0000

Public Relations And The Rise Of Product Journalism – Scoops About Spec Sheets…

svad12 — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:25:00 +0000

Hobbyist’s awe-inspiring flight simulator makes front page news in Silicon Valley

svad12 — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:47:10 +0000

This SVW editor can’t help but wonder why, 20 years and $150,000 ago, he didn’t go ahead and learn to fly a real 737?

International Sketchcrawl 35 events in the Greater Silicon Valley Metropolitan Zone, Sat., April 21

svad12 — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:29:00 +0000

Apple reported in talks with Valve for home game console

svad12 — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:03:44 +0000

Will Narrative Science’s computer algorithms replace paid writers?

svad12 — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:57:32 +0000

Friends, Followers and the Future: How Social Media Are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media by Rory O’Connor (book review)

svad12 — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:09:56 +0000

Culture Watch: The Extraordinary World of Jean Paul Gaultier – at the de Young

svad12 — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:52:05 +0000