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…
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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.
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…
Foodie Trend Alert: Pig popularity?
Is lard, and all things fattening and tasty making a comeback? According to some local chefs and butchers in San Francisco that may very well…
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.
Opera Review: La Fanciulla del West
"Cinematic" was the first word to come to mind from the very first orchestra opening notes and the unusually quick curtain rise.
Memphis wins Tony for best musical, edges out American Idiot
Memphis won the Tony for best musical Sunday night at the annual award ceremony. The musical edged out the white hot production, American Idiot, based…
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.
Solar Update: May 2010, heat hits Bay Area and reflections on our energy consumption
The green movement has led to a marketeers fantasy. Labels abound: "all natural", "organic", and "green".