Facebook likes revenue, $800 million of it in ’09
Facebook earned approximately $800 million in’09 according to reports this morning. The six-year old service, with nearly half a billion users across the world, exploded…
Clinton Stark
Filmmaker and editor at Stark Insider, covering arts, AI & tech, and indie film. Inspired by Bergman, slow cinema and Chipotle. Often found behind the camera or in the edit bay. Peloton: ClintTheMint.
Tablet sales to eclipse Netbooks by 2012, but why?
It's a perfect storm of cultural transformation: social networking, micro-communication, and a societal premium placed on content consumption.
Dinner Theater: Teatro ZinZanni in San Francisco
A wild-and-zanny-Steve-Martin kind of guy with heavy makeup and colorful costume, he enters on a chariot: "I am Caesar!"
Scoring Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft E3 announcements
It’s often surprising how much innovation and R&D funding goes into the video game industry. Each year, the three players—Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft—up the ante in…
Canon EOS DSLR Cameras: 5 tips for shooting video
"I shot a whole music vid on the beast… it’s better than the $100,000 HD Varicam I shot on in 05." -- Cullen Hoback, film…
Starbucks offers free wi-fi, seats even harder to find
To deprive us of our Google-ing, Facebook-ing, and Twitter-ing is cause, it seems, for civil unrest.
Theater Review: ‘The Tosca Project’
Billed as A.C.T.'s valentine to San Francisco, I could not think of a simpler, more accurate way to describe this emotional, visceral show.
Sunday Espresso: World Cup 98, 24, T2i
Within 20 minutes, one million people had poured into the streets. Dancing, celebrating. All next to the Arc de Triomphe at Place Charles de Gaulle.
Update: 112 theater, stage reviews and counting
There's a new generation of theater-goer out there that's into social media, doesn't read newspapers, and might just respond to something we do, however silly.
Google, now more like Bing
All of a sudden Google looks a lot more colorful this morning. Staid be gone. And it seems that with Bing, Microsoft can still throw…