YouTube’s Latest Original Programming: Olympic-Style Lightsaber Relays

9 February 2012, 8:11 am

Here's a fun example of the original programming that YouTube is supposed to be investing in these days — a relay from Santa Monica to San Diego. With lightsabers. Geek celebrity Chris Hardwick is announcing the event, dubbed Course of the Force, on the YouTube blog. Hardwick hosts the popular... Read More »

TastemakerX, The App For Hipsters Who Totally Heard That Band First, Raises $1.8M

8 February 2012, 3:11 am

TastemakerX, an about-to-launch startup that will help music fans get credit for discovering the next big thing, has raised $1.2 million in Series A funding. The company plans to launch its mobile app in early March, at South by Southwest — which seems perfect, given the event's strong represe... Read More »

Briefs: Anzar Parent orientation; Amateur radio license exam and more

2 February 2012, 9:39 am

Anzar parent orientation... Read More »

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Says IPO “Didn’t Really Change Anything”

1 February 2012, 1:41 am

LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner won this year's Best CEO award at the Crunchies, and backstage he talked about LinkedIn's big milestone from the past year — its IPO. "The event itself was memorable, but for us it was really just a stepping stone," Weiner said. It's a common theme from Weine... Read More »

2012 Olympics: A step away from her dream

31 January 2012, 10:34 am

After six years of cycling, and spending the past few years as a professional rider in Europe, Shelley Olds is five months away from fulfilling her longtime dream of riding in the Olympics.... Read More »

Local cyclist vying for Summer Olympics

31 January 2012, 8:09 am

After six years of cycling, and spending the past few years as a professional rider in Europe, Shelley Olds is five months from fulfilling her longtime dream of riding in the Olympics. Late last year,... Read More »

Fishing Report: Experience not needed in new bass tournament series

25 January 2012, 9:30 pm

A new bass tournament series beckoning less experienced anglers makes its debut Saturday at Nacimien... Read More »

TheFunded Calls Ben Horowitz The Most Disruptive VC

25 January 2012, 4:45 pm

TheFunded , the site where entrepreneurs can anonymously review venture capitalists, sometimes a reputation for being anti-VC (especially in its early days), but it's not above showing investors a little love. Today it's the announcing the winners of its awards for Top Investors 0f 2011. Ade... Read More »

CEO Invests Another $500K In CrowdOptic’s “New Social Medium”

23 January 2012, 7:15 pm

Jon Fisher, co-founder and CEO of startup CrowdOptic, just told me that he has invested another $500,000 so the company can build out what it's calling a "new social medium." The idea is to create automatic clusters of people based on their location and line of sight. I met with the CrowdOptic t... Read More »

Fishing Report: Anglers win, move on to next events

11 January 2012, 9:34 pm

Tournament bass fishermen are a mobile lot. Take the winners of two competitions at Nacimiento Lake... Read More »