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463 Articles match "2008","Technology"
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
My friend Bill Baker summarizes concisely: "technology doesn't matter anymore".
This lament originated in 2008 well ahead of the economic downturn; was it an early indicator? With a nod to Garage Venture's Guy Kawasaki and his Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists , I offer my Top Ten Lies Angels Tell . When I showed a draft to my angel friend Malcolm, he turned to me and said, "wow, this is really cynical!".
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
military vehicles--in 2008. PowerGenix is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Advent International, Angeleno Group, Braemar Energy Ventures, Granite Ventures, OnPoint Technologies and Technology Partners. San Diego-based PowerGenix , a venture backed developer of Nickel-Zinc (NiZn) rechargeable batteries, announced Tuesday that the firm has sold a number of its batteries to the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), as part of a potential use of the firm's in military vehicles.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Six major Hollywood movie studios, Viacom, and the DVD Copy Control Association had filed suit in September of 2008 over RealDVD, which was launched that same month to help consumers copy DVDs to their hard drive. RealNetworks said that as part of the suit, it has agreed to a permanent injjunction that will prohibit RealNetworks from distributing or supporting RealDVD or any other technology that enables the duplication of copyrighted content protected by the Content Scramble System (CSS), ARccOS, or RipGuard. A group of Hollywood studios has scored a win over RealNetworks today, as the firm settled a lawsuit which targeted a DVD copying and ripping service called RealDVD , which RealNetworks was attempting to launch into the market.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
This also happens for Technology Council of Southern California , AITP-LA , TechBizConnection and others. A while ago I posted about Secret for Networking at Events - Prenetworking where I recommended that people should look at who's attending the event prior to going to the event in order to make their networking more effective. I've received a lot of positive feedback on the post.
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Monday, September 22, 2008
featured in technology and news publications:
Are Then the more exotic technologies like Hadoop, HBase, Hypertable, etc start to make a difference. If you liked this blog post, please recommend it to a colleague and/or click here to get updates via email or RSS .
Written by Andrew Chen
September 18th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Posted in Uncategorized
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Analysis on viral marketing, user
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
Fascinating article by Andrew McAfee - Technology Beats a Full House - discusses how variation in performance spread decreases over time as systems become optimized. He shows that the spreads in IT heavy industries has greater variation over the past decade. ... winners were increasingly separated from loser
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
I want to take pictures for the unknown technology that will be available to me in 20 years, not for the 3×4 print that can be printed now! God know where this technology will be in 20 years. And when that technology is available, do I want a digital picture taken at resolution of 5MP or 500MP?
Next time a person tells me that I don’t need a digital camera with more than 6-10 mega pixel resolution, I am going to hit him/her on the head with the sharp corner of my camera (my potential targets here , here and all over).
People who say that you don’t
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
Technology is great!
So, those who know me might be asking why I was at Drupal Camp , or, more importantly, what exactly is Drupal camp. Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS)Â and also a content management framework. In a discussion about the hot CMS’, three are at the top of the pile, Drupal, WordPress and Joomla .
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
So the technology has been around for a very long time. believe that when you marry the web and technology out of the game industry, you can empower people to really exploit the potential that virtual worlds have to bring people together and socialize.
Who We know what we wanted to make, and our technology is up and running. Today, San Diego-based Metaplace (www.metaplace.com), which develops virtual world software, is announcing a funding round from Charles River Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, and high profile investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. We spoke with Raph
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
On a panel that I sat on with Ron in LA in 2008 he stated that there were no circumstances in which the founder should take money off of the table. I Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capita This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice ” but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.” 8221;
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
has driven modular, lower cost development models making experimentation easier Talent is hungry for opportunities to test ideas and work with other talented folks People are more open to contribution/gifting models of creation (understanding innovation is a numbers game I recently posted about Social Media and Experimental Innovation : eLearning Technology . It's funny how things intersect in life. I just ran into Chris Gammil's post New Era of Social Innovation where he describes it as: The model takes the best of the OPEN model and pushes right out into the open, further distributing
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Saturday, June 14, 2008
Whether they originate in IM, message board trheads, mail lists or blog posts - conversations can be brought together, made re-enrant and be enhanced with media. OpenEvents and OpenReviews, were early attempts at standardizing schemas and shared servers for these forms of micro-content. The Identity Gang is an effort around the notion of a ‘user-centric’ metasystem
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Monday, October 20, 2008
PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association released their Q3 2008 venture capital numbers over the weekend, finding that Southern California companies raised nearly $751 in funding during the quarter. The biggest deals for the quarter were Santa Monica-based SolarReserve , which raised $140M in a clean technology funding; Irvine-based electric automaker Fisker Automotive , which scored $65M; San Diego-based renewable petrochemical maker Sapphire Energy with $35M, and a nearly $35M funding of Laguna Hills-based
According to the MoneyTree Report, based on data from Thomson Reuters, Los Angeles companies led the region with $385.6M
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