Posts Tagged with ‘san-francisco’

I have received an invitation for our readers to attend private screening of the Dark Knight at the Matreon in San Francisco on July 17 (this Thursday) and the after party at the DNA Lounge (which is pretty good, this is where the VIP party for Web 2.0 Expo exhibitors and sponsors took place back in April so highly recommended). The previous day (Wednesday) MySpace and Techcrunch are hosting an exclusive screening in Los Angeles but for [...]

In a world where google has now become a verb, and where someone would have to be living under a rock not to have heard of the search giant, does Google actually know what it takes to aid the homeless?
In an announcement earlier today, Google revealed their plan to provide every single homeless person in the city of San Francisco with a free personal phone number  complete with voicemail, which would be accessible from any phone. Those who accept the [...]

Everyone’s talking about APIs these days.
The developer world loves ‘em. They eat them up like luscious treats of godly goodness. After they finish their celebratory cheers and siphon those lasts few sips from them party kegs, they plant themselves before their screens and pore over the releases’ particulars to determine how good the kits are (whether they’re offer up enough info to enable some really nifty and powerful third-party stuff, whether they’re “open” enough, etc., etc). And then they [...]

Last October, Google acquired JotSpot and has been working on integrating the service into the Google Apps platforms, as announced in July.
According to Google Blogoscoped, Martin Porcheron (one of their regular forum members) has noticed that ?jotspot? is now a Google Apps service code name, and that those who have a domain hosted with Google Apps (not using custom logos) will see a ?Google Wiki? logo when trying to login (see for yourself).
Hopefully all of this means [...]

For years, companies and individuals involved with the development of both the business and residential infrastructures enabling the deployment of widespread Internet access in the US have been admitting that they haven’t quite constructed the most state-of-the-art network(s) in the world. Average speeds of downstream and upstream transfers are all but snail-like in comparison to those recorded in Japan, South Korea, and several countries residing within the European continent.
The most pressing issue facing the US in terms of technological advancement [...]

There’s a lesson to be learned from the incident – one that was felt ‘round the world – that occurred in San Francisco on July 24th: Drunks can be dangerous.
Actually, there’s no real hard evidence that a data center employee, supposedly under the influence, who, according to Valleyway, was said to have turned maniacal, was responsible for taking down many popular sites on the Web, because, well, frankly much of the San Francisco as a whole experienced downtime. But, you [...]

It seems to me that iPhoneDevCamp was much more successful than I expected, especially for an event planned at the last minute. Nearly 400 developers, testers and iPhone owners showed up at the event that gathered at the San Francisco office of Adobe. Several photos were taken at the event and a keynote presentation was shown to the attendees. Several sponsors were also present at this event, where not all the programs were finished over the weekend, but several innovative creations [...]

We bring up items like YouTube and Myspace as poster children of the Web 2.0 “movement.” Yes? No? I think it’s safe to say so. But the push to further technological advances to bring us closer together doesn’t stop at everyman’s creation of graphic-saturated profiles or uploading stuff that one would rather get exposed to millions in an online community than get a crack at the $10,000 prize on the timeless US-based television series, AFV. It’s reaching… well, a lot further. [...]