#SMWSF Social Media Week, @AOL HuffPo, DICE Summit

07Feb11

What a way to start the week! Arianna Huffington, now AOL content czar, swings $315mm in HuffPo acquisition and fulfills promise to make blogging a pay profession. Of course, as an AOL music blogger, I’m biased and couldn’t be happier, for this now makes two iconic bosses in my career and great cocktail chatter for […]

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#CTIA Guide/James Cameron, Biz Stone, Padmasree Warrior

22Mar10

Right on the heels of DEMO, CTIA Mobile Life is off to a roaring start in Vegas.  Programming themes range from wireless health, smart energy, retail solutions to mobile ce, social networking, mobile payments and mobile marketing – and a lot of the talk will be focused on developers, Flash and iPad, but not necessarily developing […]

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#TVOT10/TV of Tomorrow Show Guide

02Mar10

Anyone who is a fan of Tracy Swedlow’s excellent InteractiveTV Today blog is going to want to be at her TV of Tomorrow Show this week at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco where the talk will be everything OTT, CloudTV, and TV everywhere with probably the best discussion on Tcommerce interactive […]

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#OTTcon/The Guide

01Feb10

Take a closer look at the OTT platforms tomorrow as OTTcon swings into town at the Holiday Inn, San Jose at 1740 North First Street.  Here is the agenda: FEBRUARY 2, 2010 8:00 – 9:00 Registration and Breakfast 9:00 – 9:45 Keynote Presentation “In With the Old, in With the New—A Pragmatic Approach to Broadband […]

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Tags: Boxee, Cisco, Fox, Motorola, MPAA, Nokia, OTT, PeerTV, Qtv, Sony, SyncTV, TiVo, Worldcast, ZillionTV

#DLRconf Digital Living Room, #HRTS Hitmakers, #CES

14Dec09

This is it!  The last week of conferences for the year and what a way to go out. Digital Living Room will be celebrating connected devices at Sun Microsystems, Santa Clara tomorrow and on Wednesday HRTS is lunching with the showrunners of Modern Family, Glee, Mad Men, How I Met Your Mother and Rescue Me at […]

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#NTVL NewTeeVee Live/Netflix Toasters Before Wii, Roku Channel SDK, Boxee Box Soon, Comcast Everywhere…

12Nov09

For anyone looking to get up to speed on TV Everywhere, the only place to be today was at Mission Bay in San Francisco for NewTeeVee Live, streamed live at  http://www.justin.tv/richreader and tweeted out on #NTVL. Here’s the gist of it with video to boot: Marc Whitten, Xbox – Launched Sky in UK with cool friends […]

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What’s On This Week: Mobile Monday, #NTVL NewTeeVee

08Nov09

AFM is still going strong but our attention now shifts back to the Bay Area where Mobile Monday rolls into town with a focus on Brands Gone Mobile, Nokia’s hosting cocktails, sure to pack the house.  The party continues on W eve at Adobe’s VIP reception and Th with NewTeeVee Live.  Everyone will be there. […]

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#DMCW #VGS09 #140conf Digital Media Conference West, Virtual Goods Summit, 140 Characters Conf, Billboard Film TV Music Conference

26Oct09

Whether you’re North or South this week, there’s lots of fun to be had.  In San Francisco, on W 10/28 the Digital Media Conference West is at the Hotel Kabuki (1625 Post) and on Th-F 10/29-30 the Virtual Goods Summit is at the Westin (50 3rd/Market).  In LA, on Tu-W 10/27-28 Jeff Pulver’s 140 Characters Conference is […]

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#DH09 Digital Hollywood Sizzles/From Polanski to Mad Men/The Guide

16Oct09

Digital Hollywood, a must for content licensing professionals, lands at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel M 10/19-Th 10/22 and producer Victor Harwood didn’t miss a thing.  Action packed with the Variety/Content/CodeSpace/EPPS Summits, International Academy of Web Television meetup, WGA comedy writers boot camp, filmmaker screening, pitchfest, poolside cocktails, a social mobile gaming connected device multiplatform hackathon, […]

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This Week in Music/#CTIA Billboard, #DMF

06Oct09

There is so much going on, never mind mobile with CTIA, TV with MIPCOM, film with MVFF, and books with LitQuake, music alone dominates SoCal over the next few days with Billboard Mobile Entertainment Live! in San Diego today and Digital Music Forum tomorrow and Thursday in LA.  Follow along at #CTIA, #DMF.  Here’s the […]

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