It’s been a long time since I’ve done this series “Silicon Valley Sightings” as well, quite frankly, I’ve been doing a lot of travel in my role as an analyst. Yet, despite the lull in posting this series (I’m sure local food blogger Brian Stephens … Continue readingSilicon Valley Sightings: Lighter Than Air on a Zeppelin Tour
Above: I spent Saturday on San Gregario beach in Half Moon Bay, just a few minutes from the hustle and bustle of busy Silicon Valley, pics from mobile phone. While only 30 minutes from companies like Siebel, Oracle, NetSuite, and Visa in San Mateo, Half … Continue readingSilicon Valley Sightings: Half Moon Bay, the Beach in the Backyard
Above, SF Chronicle perches pleasantly at Fifth and Mission in SOMA district (Google Map) One of the real pleasures I’ve had as an analyst (thanks to Tracy in our PR department) is the opportunity to meet many of the journalists and reporters in the tech … Continue readingSilicon Valley Sightings: SF Chronicle
(Above: The Flat Iron Building [map], in New York’s Silicon Alley) I usually reserve this tag for the interesting places I see in Silicon Valley, but am traipsing around New York for a few days. I’m camping at the office of Bricabox, as a guest … Continue readingSilicon Valley Sightings (Special Edition): New York’s Tech Scene
Notable landmark right in front of Pizza My Heart, a few blocks from Facebook, and a brisk walk to Jeff Clavier’s office and Social Text lies the great green silicon valley egg. The Digital DNA project is sponsored by Palo Alto’s Civic Art Gallery. This … Continue readingSilicon Valley Sightings: The Palo Alto Egg
The web industry is part of an ecosystem, and one of the major families are the press, who get high level news out to the masses. Last week, I had a meeting over at the San Jose Mercury, (map) one of Silicon Valley’s most well … Continue readingSilicon Valley Sightings: San Jose Mercury News
A few weeks ago, I revisited The Museum of Technology in downtown San Jose, the ‘blue fruit in an orange box’ (see google street map) building sticks out amid the glass corporate buildings and grand hotels. A great landmark for a city centered in innovation. … Continue readingSilicon Valley Sightings: The Tech Museum of Innovation
Yahoo! has a very prominent billboard on highway 80 in San Francisco, (streetview map) right before you cross over the bay bridge (close to the freeway collapse of the Loma Prieta earthquake). When I go to tech events in the city, I almost always see … Continue readingSilicon Valley Sightings: The Yahoo! Billboard
