March 26th, 2009 02:03pm
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Roy Tennant has been transitioning the paper words of yesteryears online for decades. He started working in libraries at age 17, and attained his masters in library and information science from Berkeley. He has worked both for the Berkeley library, the whole UC library system, and now the largest library cooperative in the world. He is a frequent speaker on the digitization of library systems and a …
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March 19th, 2009 04:06pm
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Jeff Baudin is founder of Santa Rosa-based Micromat, and designer of its flagship product TechTool. Apple includes a copy of TechTool, a fixit software, with every extended warrenty. Baudin also started Outspring, which designs spam filters and apps for the iPhone.
Question and Answers:
DailyGeek: What OS do you primarily use?Baudin: The latest version of Macintosh OS X, of course! I’m a certifiable MacSnob. I owned a PC once. I didn’t like …
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March 17th, 2009 09:35pm
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Walking into the office of Sonic.net is a bit like walking into a San Francisco startup — at least the youth culture part.
It’s got loads of wrinkle-free faces, employees wearing clothes from Forever 21 and H&M, and an arcade room (ok, a break room with a lone video arcade machine. But that machine is stuffed full of classic games like PacMan and Street Fighter.)
It’s an oddity in Santa Rosa — …
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March 11th, 2009 06:03pm
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Bio: Frank Wise, 28, is director of IT for a well-established construction company, Western Water Constructors, in Santa Rosa. Wise and Josh McGarva decided to start a social networking site for people in the construction industry. It beta launched in August, 2008 and now has about 1,300 registered businesses, 3,500 members and about 20,000 visits a month.McGarva’s father runs the employee-owned construction company, which supports the startup. Here is an …
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March 10th, 2009 03:37am
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Tim O’Reilly began his keynote at the Emerging Technology conference Monday night at the same spot he left off last year – with a poem.O’Reilly re-read the poem “The Man Watching” by Rainer Maria Rilke, emphasizing the poem’s message that losing to a great challenge is an honorable path to personal, professional growth:
When we win it’s with small things,and the triumph itself makes us small.What is extraordinary and eternaldoes not …
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March 4th, 2009 10:05pm
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Bio: Tim O’Reilly generates Internet ideas and analysis like others exhale. Since before O’Reilly Media published The Whole Internet User’s Guide in 1992, Tim O’Reilly has been an advocate and prognosticator of the emerging digital world. He shares with the DailyGeek what technologies get him through the week.
His Web site: Oreilly.com
Blog: radar.oreilly.com/tim
Collection of his writings: Tim.Oreilly.com
Twitter: @TimOreilly
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DailyGeek: What OS do you primarily use?
O’Reilly: I use Mac OS X …
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March 4th, 2009 05:53pm
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Update: Miriam Ellis, the source, and I exchange perspectives in
the comments below. Miriam sent me her feedback via email, and I posted them here.
I’ve never posted anyone’s emails before, and don’t plan to make it a habit.
But her comments speak directly to her previous comments about my ability as a
journalist. So I wanted them shared.
An old adage in journalism is “You’re only as good as your sources.”
So, …
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March 3rd, 2009 09:29pm
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After writing a story about search engine optimization for
Sunday’s business section, I got a call from Janet Wentworth. She is a business
advisor for the Small Business Development
Center in Santa Rosa, and she said they offer a bunch
of free technology services including Web site review.
A business advisor will spend about 6 to 8 hours – for free
- looking over your Web site and provide feedback in a these areas:
Review its usability …
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February 27th, 2009 02:52pm
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Bio: Doug Moeller co-founded Autonet Mobile after designing a wireless Internet router that turns any car into a WiFi hotspot. The router has come a long ways since he designed it on his kitchen table in Santa Rosa. It now is equipped with a GPS unit, and is configured to take the best Internet signal from one of three national cell phone service providers.
Web site: www.autonetmobile.com
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February 18th, 2009 11:25pm
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Bio: Eric McHenry is the chief technology officer of the city of Santa Rosa. A former Agilent executive, he joined the city in 2005 and has led an effort to put more city services online. Recently, he announced an ambitious plan to geocode every fixed asset the city owned. As part of that plan, the city created is own high-res Google Street View like system of all Santa Rosa.
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Covering all things geek, with an eye on Sonoma County and the rest of San Francisco’s North Bay. Nathan Halverson covers Internet technology, emerging technology and personal technology for The Press Democrat, a New York Times Company newspaper.
