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iMovie, ShowYou, Beyond Mobile, & More Xconomy News

April 17 Comments Off Category: Writing & Journalism, Xconomy

Time for the semi-monthly roundup of stories crossing my desk at Xconomy.
* First things first: All Xconomy fans are invited to an open house tomorrow (Monday April 18) at Xconomy San Francisco — aka my live/work loft — for our spring open house. Join me and my Seattle colleague Luke Timmerman from 5:00 to 8:00 pm [...]

Y Combinator, E-Textbooks, the Consumer Surplus, & More Xconomy News

April 02 Comments Off Category: Startups, Writing & Journalism, Xconomy

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 [...]

Mobile Madness, the Evils of Cash, iPhone vs. Android, & More Xconomy News

March 19 Comments Off Category: Startups, Writing & Journalism, Xconomy

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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Apple, Altius, Hipmunk, Thrutu, Transphorm, Room 77, & More Xconomy News

March 05 Comments Off Category: Startups, Writing & Journalism, Xconomy

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 [...]

Crocodoc, Astia, Coworking Spaces, 7 Big Questions about Mobile, & More Xconomy News

February 21 Comments Off Category: Startups, Writing & Journalism, Xconomy

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 [...]

Obama’s Incubator Nation, a Rash of Startup Uncloakings, Inside Engine Yard and Eventbrite & More Xconomy News

February 05 Comments Off Category: Startups, Writing & Journalism, Xconomy

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 [...]

iPad Superbooks, the Google Triumverate, Q&As Galore, and More Xconomy News

January 23 Comments Off Category: Startups, Writing & Journalism, Xconomy

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. [...]

Google’s Vision of “Augmented Humanity,” StumbleUpon, Path, the iPad 2, & More Xconomy News

January 09 Comments Off Category: Startups, Writing & Journalism, Xconomy

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 [...]

RockMelt, ShopWell, Drinking & Partying, & More Xconomy News

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 [...]

Mark Zuckerberg, Aneesh Chopra, Apps for Runners & More Xconomy News

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 [...]