Ariba President Kevin Costello filed his third stock sales plan in a year Tuesday, according to a filing Thursday with the SEC.
The plan was written to comply with Rule 10b5-1 that allows executives to Read the rest of this entry »
I have a post over at the Idea Lab blog about Twitter, the L.A. earthquake, and the future of breaking news:
Like a lot of folks who have developed a cultish appreciation for the microblogging service, I’ve increasingly found that Twitter has become the place get breaking news before it hits online news sites or television.
Lists of anything are always dubious at best. And yet, like a bad car wreck, we often can’t help but look on in fascination.
That’s the case with the “The MostPublic Index” compiled by NowPublic.com, a citizen journalism site based in Vancouver, Canada. According to the press release:
The MostPublic Index is a detailed (and transparent) barometer of who’s voices are most heard in the digital landscape as new channels—Twitter, Facebook, Flick, YouTube and the like—transform how media is created and spread.
So, basically these are the Web 2.0 folks who spend every waking second documenting every sniffle, belch and conversation and then posting about it and then promoting it like crazy. The release notes:
“Is this a PR stunt? Is NowPublic link-baiting? Is MostPublic a valid and relevant barometer?” said Leonard Brody, CEO and Co-Founder of NowPublic. “We believe that new media tools redefine who the online newsmakers and reporters are. This is part of the foundation upon which NowPublic is built. Traditional influence lists are increasingly irrelevant because they’re predicated on outdated factors and metrics.”
You can get the full breakdown on the criteria here, but in short, it’s based on how active someone is across a host of social networking sites and how highly they’re rated by members of those communities. But enough of my yackin’, because what you really want to know is: Who is on the index?
Here are the top 10 and go to the jump for the full list: (And as you go through the full list, do a mental calculation to see how many of these names you recognize. If the answer is “A lot” then it may be time to switch off the computer and get some sunshine.)
On Monday, I got a chance to meet legendary oil man T. Boone Pickens. He was in full campaign mode to promote the Pickens Plan. In short, Pickens wants to build massive wind farms to generate 22 percent of our electricity. He would use that to free up natural gas which would then be used to power new fleets of trucks and government-owned vehicles. I’ve posted audio excerpts of our conversation here.
Many folks first got word of the L.A. earthquake via Twitter. The first tweet came at 11:41 a.m. via someone named Nicholas Hawkins, according to Twitter’s Biz Stone. I didn’t include Hawkins own tweet since includes an expletive deleted. But you can find it here.
The L.A. Times web site had its first blurb up at 11:56 a.m. (which isn’t bad considering the site was flooded with traffic right after the quake which briefly made it inaccessible).
Twenty four major federal agencies reported “that they had not yet installed encryption technology to protect sensitive information on about 70 percent of their laptop computers and handheld devices”, according to a survey conducted by the General Accountability Office during the third quarter of 2007.
The security gap exists despite Read the rest of this entry »
In order to get Kevin Johnson (pictured below) to leave Microsoft, where he was instrumental in that company’s aborted attempt to buy Yahoo, Juniper agreed to give him $5 million just for signing on the dotted line. He gets $1.5 million for his first year, another $1.5 million for his second, and a final $2 million for his third, according to an SEC filing Monday. Read the rest of this entry »
Trident Microsystems shares got hammered after hours on Monday after the company reported a slew of news, including results for its fiscal 2008 fourth quarter and guidance for its current quarter, a 10-year extension of its shareholder rights plan (AKA poison pill), and the permanent appointment of the company’s previously interim chief financial officer. Read the rest of this entry »
Symantec’s chief executive, John Thompson, joined an exclusive group of Silicon Valley chief executives whose companies now use aircraft they own or control for business use, according to the company’s proxy filed with the SEC Monday.
In May, Symantec entered into a “”dry-lease agreement” for an aircraft with a company owned by Thompson, under which it will pay Read the rest of this entry »
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