Posted by Chris OBrien on July 15th, 2009 at 11:50 am | Categorized as Innovation, O'Brien, Policy, Social Media | Tagged as geeks, Obama, president, Technology
I’m thinking through a possible column, and I’m looking for some early feedback. I’ve watched in great interest, as have many in Silicon Valley, how President Obama has followed through on his tech agenda since January.
We all know the tech community had impossibly high expectations. Many folks credited his social media savvy (or, at least his staff’s) with getting him elected. He understood tech like no other candidate we’ve ever seen. Even better, he laid out an ambitious agenda that seemed to win the hearts and minds across the valley. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris OBrien on June 17th, 2008 at 4:09 pm | Categorized as Social Media | Tagged as dinner, geeks, porn, Web 2.0, zivity
On June 26, a group of local women is holding the second Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner. The dinner is part of larger series of international gatherings that aim to provide a place for women to gather to network and discuss tech subjects. The latest event will include a panel of women, most of whom work at Facebook, one of the event’s sponsors.
The problem, for some women, is the event’s other sponsor: Zivity.
Never heard of Zivity? That may be because it’s still in beta. Or it may be because it’s a porn site. Actually, it’s a kind of Web 2.0 porn site that aims to mashup high-class porn, user-generated content, and social networking.
Check out this stream of Twitter comments that were being made about Zivity’s role in the dinner on Tuesday.
So what is Zivity? Read the rest of this entry »
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