Today, Mike Homer, as well as many others suffering from incurable degenerative brain disease and dementias, will get a new video-sharing channel on YouTube, along with a Web site and an interactive widget.
Unfortunately, Homer continues to suffer from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), for which he is under treatment at the University of California at San Francisco.
Gas prices through the roof?
Mortgage crisis continues?
A looming recession?
You almost have to admire Web 2.0’s fight for their right to party.
OK, we’ll admit it–we just like the steady and non-hypey persona of Aaron Patzer, whom BoomTown has officially and forever dubbed “Mint Guy.”
While he is not exactly minty fresh–in fact, the founder and CEO of Mint is much more circumspect and cool than any 26-year-old I have met recently–Patzer does stand out in a sea [...]
OK, you might attribute it to being super-bored in the holiday doldrums. But, for some reason I cannot explain, I find myself strangely drawn to the videos being made about the start-up of Seesmic, the new video-sharing service that is being created by European entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur.
Up on his own loic.tv channel on YouTube, [...]
At the end of the night of the first day of the Web 2.0 Summit, MySpace threw a party at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art, where the No. 1 social-networking site showed off its Beverly Hills style and planted a flag (in the form of a new office about to open in the city [...]
Last night, StumbleUpon–the site that helps you find Web sites based on recommendations from friends and other like-minded people–had a party in downtown San Francisco’s Minna Gallery to celebrate its recent acquisition by auction giant eBay and also just because it is summer.
The Canadian-born social bookmarking start-up, which launched a few years ago, came to [...]
The full video from the Fight for Mike event, held a week ago in Palo Alto, Calif., for Mike Homer, is now up on YouTube and is embedded below.
Friends and colleagues of the well-known tech veteran came together to learn about his severe illness–he was recently diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
The hour-long event included speeches by [...]
Last night, in an extraordinary gathering in Silicon Valley, friends and colleagues of Mike Homer came together to learn about his severe illness–the longtime tech veteran was recently diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
In an event organized by Homer and his wife, Kristina, as well as close friends and well-known industry players Bill Campbell and Ron Conway, [...]
I had lunch with well-known angel investor Ron Conway recently and we had a lively discussion about a range of topics, including the venture business (better than ever!), innovation (better than better than ever!), monetizing video content on the Web (best of all!) and more.
Ron also had a bit to get off his chest about [...]
While Walt and I will come up with our own questions for Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs, who will be appearing in an historic joint interview at our D conference in one week, I was curious what others–some tech folks and some not in the industry–would ask the tech legends if they could [...]
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