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Seems like only yesterday my daughter was a baby, crawling around the house. And just a figurative week before that, I was in college, hanging by the keg, sporting a toga. Ah, memories… (cue the needle skipping over an LP record) In less than two years, my little girl goes to college! Like a good dad should, I’ve been taking my daughter on college campus tours.

There seems to be no shortage of funding for business blogs, at least not yet. Giga Omni Media, which publishes the popular GigaOM technology blog, is the latest to get...

There seems to be no shortage of funding for business blogs, at least not yet. Giga Omni Media, which publishes the popular GigaOM technology blog, is the latest to get...

Here is a short clip from CNET of a tearful Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, telling employees to personally thank Bill Gates for the opportunity to work at Microsoft and thank him for instilling the culture of Microsoft, its “passion, intensity, and tenacity.”

Here is a short video clip of Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft [MSFT], fighting back the tears as he asks employees to thank Bill Gates for the opportunity to work at Microsoft and for being responsible for its culture of "tenacity." http://www.hulu.com/watch/24726/cnet-news-ballmers-tearful-good-bye

The two leaders in the online social networking space, MySpace and Facebook, are emerging as the clear leaders in the mobile social space as well. According to research carried out in Q2′08 by ABI Research, as high as 46% of the people who visited online social networks also visited mobile socnets.

How to dump your Web 2.0 girlfriend, boyfriend or whateverfriend How do you deal with a derailed relationship that's still on Facebook — and Twitter, and Tumblr, and FriendFeed, and a couple dozen blogs? Recently-outsourced Valleywag writer Melissa Gira Grant wrote a how-to for chick-culture site The Frisky after dealing with a breakup firsthand.

Just as there is a tendency to inanely cheerlead the tech sector valuations on the way up, there is inevitably the equally ridiculous overreaction to the downward slide going on right now for digital companies.

Things aren’t looking so good in Silicon Valley these days. As the US economy adjusts to recession, funding for ventures is down, stock prices are falling, and online tabloids have to let go even their decadent Valley prostitution reporters. read more

Things aren’t looking so good in Silicon Valley these days. As the US economy adjusts to recession, funding for ventures is down, stock prices are falling, and online tabloids have to let go even their decadent Valley prostitution reporters. read more