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In May 2004, Tom Foremski became the first journalist to leave a major newspaper, the Financial Times, to make a living as a full-time journalist blogger. He writes the popular news blog Silicon Valley Watcher--reporting on the business of Silicon Valley.Tom arrived in San Francisco in 1984, and has covered...
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- Silicon Valley VCs proposed a plan to save newspapers in 1996
- At the recent SDForum 2009 Visionary Awards, Vinod Khosla, one of Silicon Valley's top VCs, gave an inspiring and very humble speech. How To Succeed In Silicon Valley By Bumbling And Failing... Afterwards, I...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Business Model, Vinod Khosla, Foremski, Internet, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Visionary 2009: Jim Clark on the importance of Stanford university to Silicon Valley
- Jim Clark, co-founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape was one of four winners of the SDForum 2009 Visionary Awards. He spoke about his earlier life and how he was trying to get out of Texas, then trying to get out of the navy. He also spoke about the importance...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Stanford University, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Visionary 2009: Kay Koplovitz - more women entrepreneurs
- Kay Koplovitz calls for more women entrepreneurs during her acceptance speech at the SDForum visionary awards. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGRyvhsP7Uk Her Bio: Kay Koplovitz is currently a principal of...
- Tags: Women, Board, Gender And Diversity, Venture Capital, Corporate Governance, Investment, Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Finance, Financing Startups, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Visionary 2009: Judy Estrin says innovation is in trouble
- Judy Estrin, one of Silicon Valley's top entrepreneurs, she continues to sound warnings that innovation is in danger because of fundamental structural problems. She spoke at the SDForum Visionary Awards 2009. She was one of four recepients of the annual awards. p>"What I've been struck by, and concerned...
- Tags: Innovation, Leadership, Government, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- To blog or to Tweet? That is the question . . . here is an answer
- I've noticed that many people have abandoned their blogs in favor of real-time blogging on Twitter or on Friendfeed. Their argument is that they can't do both. And it's understandable because it all takes time, lots of it. But it might be worth revisiting that strategy and...
- Tags: Robert Scoble, Blog, Twitter, Friendfeed, Scobleizer, Blogging, Internet, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Bumbling around and failing every which way . . . lessons for success
- Vinod Khosla is one of Silicon Valley's most successful VCs. I was at the recent SDForum Visionary Awards where Mr Khosla was one of four winners of the 2009 awards. His acceptance speech was short and very good. Excellent advice for entrepreneurs. Also, he talks about failure, which...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Vision, Vinod Khosla, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-28
- Disruptive technologies disrupt - goodbye newspaper companies
- Last week my Saturday Post was about how Internet based technologies have been used to create applications and services that devalue existing business models. It's a hugely disruptive process. [The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .] This trend is occurring because it can occur -- because...
- Tags: Craigslist, Business Model, Internet, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-27
- FridayWatch: The disruptive Bronze Age . . .
- We forget that disruption is a common feature of our society throughout history. Even though our disruptive cycles appear much more frequently than ever before, it seems we can deal with them. Here is what it might have been liked transitioning from the Stone Age to the...
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- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- AMD: Creating the building blocks for cloud computing
- I met with Margaret Lewis, she is director of commercial solutions and software at Advanced Micro Devices. She spends a lot of time talking with data center managers about their needs and the transition to cloud computing. Here are some notes from our conversation: ...
- Tags: Software, Processor, Cloud Computing, Data Center, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Netbook, Data Centers, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Journalism ... and other inappropriate relationships
- If you end up being bitten by journalism it is similar to being smitten. It's like falling in love with someone -- but in this case, you know it's the wrong person. - You know that there is no way the relationship can work out (because currently...
- Tags: Journalism, Story, News Story, Keyboards, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Hardware, Peripherals, Human Resources, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Should CEOs be active in social media?
- UberCEO, a firm that helps executives maintain their online presence, surveyed the CEOs of Fortune 100 companies and found that none blog, and only two have Twitter accounts. Some of the additional findings were: - 13 CEOs have LinkedIn profiles, and of those only...
- Tags: Social Media, CEO, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- From Big Blue to Big Brown as IBM expands into sewage management and other green initiatives
- IBM representatives were in San Francisco on Tuesday to announce a partnership with the city around several green initiatives and also to launch several broader initiatives that include the development of advanced battery technologies at its Almaden Research Center in San Jose. I met with Alan Ganek,...
- Tags: Battery, IBM Corp., Engineering, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .
- Ever since I first heard about the Internet and then saw its incredible development and application across industries, I've been on the look out for the economic effects of this powerful platform technology. The specific economic influence I've been looking for is a strong deflationary trend. That's when we will...
- Tags: Software, Craigslist, Advertisement, Technology, IBDT, Internet, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-20
- Putting a cloud into a box (container) the HP way
- At the HP Technology Forum in Las Vegas I got to a chance to tour a HP POD Performance Optimized Datacenter. A more suitable acronym would be "Portable Optimized Datacenter" because it is in a specially reinforced and equipped standard sized container and delivered on...
- Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Interview with HP user group president Nina Buik
- The advent of social media has made a big difference at Connect -- the independent user organization representing 50,000 professionals using Hewlett-Packard technology products and services. "We used to conduct a worldwide survey of our members and have to wait until all the data was compiled and...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Social Media, Connect, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- The marketing myth of "free" social media
- Marketers and PR people are all over Twitter, FaceBook, etc. They love "social media" because they can get past the "gate keepers" in traditional media. And there have been several instances where they've managed to promote their clients at seemingly little or no cost. ...
- Tags: Marketing, Social Media, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-13
- The irony of a cloud knocking out Amazon's EC2 cloud services
- Rich Miller at Data Center Knowledge reports that a lightning storm knocked out power to part of Amazon's EC2 cloud computing services. Some customers were offline for more than four hours before the damage could be repaired. The problems began at about 6:30...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Data Centers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- AMD grabs "impressive" market share from Intel in Q1
- It's good to see AMD becoming more competitive against Intel and for the first time in a year, managing to win back market share, says iSuppli, a market research firm. Intel lost 2.5 points in market share to 79.1 per cent, its first decline after a year...
- Tags: Revenue, Microprocessor, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Semiconductors, Operational Accounting, Processors, Hardware, Finance, Components, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Where are the French code warriors when it's "Le Weekend?"
- A startup based in Silicon Valley and Lyon, France contacted me on Friday about a new service it had just launched and asked me to check it out. I looked at the service and saw there was a problem with some of the Javascript and told...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Team, Service, Team Management, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-06
- Bain survey finds tech and telecom execs are least worried
- Bain & Company released its 12th Bain’s Management Tools & Trends Survey results from interviews with 1400 top executives around the world. One of the findings was that tech and telecom execs were the least concerned about long-term impact from the recession and are the most...
- Tags: Bain, Recession, Telecommunications, Survey, Exec, Workforce Management, Productivity, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-04

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