startups from around the globe to grace the stage in front of Valley VCs, Google, Microsoft, socalTECH readers . OnHollywood socalTECH is proud to be an affiliate partner of the upcoming OnHollywood event, where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the Hollywood digital entertainment and media elite. Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Interesting in reaching Southern California's high tech industry?

Irvine-based startup YouMail has just gotten a new competitor: search engine giant Google, which launched a significantly comparable service to YouMail's voice mail services. The venture backed startup--which has scored funding from the Tech Coast Angels and VantagePoint Venture Partners--appears to have significant overlap to Google's new Google Voice services. Google, Google, released YouMail offers a voice mail service which allows cell phone users to preview their voicemail messages in email or on the web, convert those voicemails to text, and provide personalized phone greetings to callers, depending on who is calling.

In what might be some new competition for Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project , the high profile ad optimization firm headed by Frank Addante, search engine giant Google told its advertisers late Wednesday that it will begin to offer similar capabilities in its AdSense program. Google said it will open its door to third party advertising networks, allowing the ads in those networks to compete with AdWords advertisers for ad space on publishers. Google said it will be certifying those networks, and will be rolling out the new service over the next few weeks. Rubicon Project

Hip hop artists and rock stars, comedians, TV and film talent and Internet-born celebrities will show how they have used new social media technologies and services such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo and Google to promote their own brands and reach new audiences. Special 500ff discount for socalTECH readers: http://alwayson.goingon.com/cart/add/29026 ... Wednesday, December 17, 2008 -- AlwaysOn BreakOut. BreakOut is where cutting-edge artists present and debate the digital technologies and strategies they are deploying to break away from the entertainment establishment

Hip hop artists and rock stars, comedians, TV and film talent and Internet-born celebrities will show how they have used new social media technologies and services such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo and Google to promote their own brands and reach new audiences. Special 500ff discount for socalTECH readers: http://alwayson.goingon.com/cart/add/29026 ... Tuesday, December 16, 2008 -- AlwaysOn BreakOut. BreakOut is where cutting-edge artists present and debate the digital technologies and strategies they are deploying to break away from the entertainment establishment

Hip hop artists and rock stars, comedians, TV and film talent and Internet-born celebrities will show how they have used new social media technologies and services such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo and Google to promote their own brands and reach new audiences. Special 500ff discount for socalTECH readers: http://alwayson.goingon.com/cart/add/29026 ... Monday, December 15, 2008 -- AlwaysOn BreakOut. BreakOut is where cutting-edge artists present and debate the digital technologies and strategies they are deploying to break away from the entertainment establishment

They are Starbucks, Dell, eBay, Google and Microsoft. Meanwhile, all of us get more news and information than ever, sliced, diced, pushed or aggregated by Web sites, email alerts, blogs, Facebook, Tweets and the socalTECH newsletter you�re reading now. As For today's Insights and Opinions article, we have a piece from Tracy Olmstead Williams, of Olmstead Williams Communications, talking about the bold new world of social media: Social Social Media, like Global Warming, has now left doubters behind. According

startups from around the globe to grace the stage in front of Valley VCs, Google, Microsoft, socalTECH readers . Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern Southern California's high tech news and companies. They include:

Why not write more articles about Google, Yahoo, Facebook, etc. The reason socalTECH started (it used to be a side hobby I did as a software engineer, and has become it’s own business) was because of the misconception years ago that Southern California did not have any technology. socalTECH was started to focus on and highlight the innovation and technology being grown here in Southern California. I was recently talking with the CEO of a high tech startup here, and he asked me — why did I bother covering Southern California companies? Why not go big and focus on

socalTECH was first started in 1998, as a hobby of mine (now a business, mind you), when I was looking for a job. socalTECH isn’t just Southern California, we’ve got some lesser known (stealth?) You can’t pay to get news coverage on socalTECH, and we get insulted if you ask. There’s a new craze on Facebook, where people are tagging their friends and posting “25 Random Things About Me”. The idea is to share random facts about yourself that other people might not know.