Travels with Rhody

Time for a semi-monthly update on the stories I’ve been covering for Xconomy San Francisco. If you’re looking for a source of tech-startup stories, the Y Combinator venture incubator in Mountain View is a bottomless well. The big Y Combinator event in March was Demo Day for the winter 2011 batch of companies. Of the 43 [...]

I’m beginning to enjoy writing these semi-monthly roundups of my Xconomy stories. As I rush from one story to the next, it’s pretty easy to focus only on the work that’s still unfinished and lose track of what’s been accomplished. So it’s been useful to stop every couple of weeks for a brief look back.
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Time for the twice-monthly roundup of the major stories I’ve been pursuing for Xconomy San Francisco. While I was personally intrigued by the iPad 2 debut this week, there was so much other big stuff happening — including some interesting company and product launches and funding rounds — that I hardly had time to attend [...]

It’s Presidents’ Day, which means one less story to write, which means I have a few extra moments to catch up on other things like this twice-monthly story roundup. Following are summaries of my major stories from the last two weeks, in reverse chronological order as usual:
* As a way of prepping for my emcee [...]

There was an amazing rush of news affecting tech entrepreneurs and in the Bay Area and nationally over the last two weeks — starting with President Obama’s tech-heavy State of the Union address and continuing with the developments at Y Combinator (where every startup won a $150,000 lottery), the unveiling of the White House’s Startup [...]

After the epic update from two weeks ago, I’ve got a more compact list of things to tell you about this time. In reverse chron order:
* For my January 21 column, I reviewed a couple of e-book titles for the iPad that the New York Timespraised recently as “superbooks”: Alice for the iPad and Why the Net Matters. [...]

It’s amazing how time accelerates around the end of the year. I didn’t mean to let eight weeks go after my last Xconomy update, but there you have it.
My biggest recent project was a three-part series, published last week, about Google’s vision for an “Age of Augmented Humanity” when our mobile devices will find what [...]

I missed my intended window for posting a news summary a couple of weeks ago (for good reason), so there’s even more than usual to talk this time around. The reason was my vacation week in Fairbanks, Alaska, where I have a brand-new niece and a three-year-old nephew. Baby picture fans can check out the adorable [...]

My mini journalistic coup this month was scoring an interview with Aneesh Chopra, the CTO of the United States. We talked about healthcare IT policy, and how Chopra is trying to create new opportunities for entrepreneurs by opening up government data that they can deploy in Web and mobile apps.
The recently overhauled Facebook Groups feature is [...]

Time for my second update on the big technology and business stories that have been keeping me busy lately.
It’s been an incredible privilege to get to know so many of the founder-entrepreneurs from this summer’s class of Y Combinator companies. Continuing myseries of YC profiles, I wrote a story on September 20 about Whereoscope, which [...]