BarcampLA has quite a history, dating back to early 2005, and in the archives of this blog – as well as on our Barcamp.org wiki – you can check plenty of links, documentation, and evidence of real people doing actual planning. Barcamp archives barcampLA boogah carmen leilani de jesus content crystal williams MORE >>

returned to the gaming industry in 2005, when I started Acclaim Games, which we then sold to Playdom. Howard Marks: In 2005, when I started Acclaim, I believed the future of games were free to play, online games. howard marks gamzee videogame video game content html5 activision acclaim startupWhat is Gamzee all about? Thanks! MORE >>

In the quest to own the world of Internet content, there has been a huge amount of focus given to the world of consumer Internet content. For that reason, more and more content is going online. However, as these are relatively niche focuses, it's difficult for those content providers--often times bloggers--to build an audience. MORE >>

acquired IGN in September of 2005, for $650M. Those numbers--and the story--seems to be almost an exact repeat of the story behind MySpace , which--also in 2005, in July--was acquired by News Corp. ziffdavis newscorp publisher publishing content videogame davis ziff j2global acquisition mergerDoes this sound familiar? News Corp. MORE >>

Last week, San Diego-based provider of web content classification and security services developer BrightCloud was acquired by Webroot , and we thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to founder Quinn Curtis about how the acquisition of his firm came about. Quinn is now VP of Hosted Security Services at Webroot (www.webroot.com). MORE >>