Kara Visits The Lobby Party on Sand Hill Road (As Opposed to the Sandy Beaches of Hawaii)

Last night, BoomTown went to a lovely party thrown by David Hornik, the August Capital VC who also runs The Lobby conference in his spare time. He threw the event because those who attend the annual invitation-only gathering in Hawaii wanted to get together again during the year in Silicon Valley for even more schmoozing. I went to the first Lobby in the fall of 2007, so Hornik let me in to have some pizza and beer at August’s offices on Sand Hill Road and use my Flip video to ask those in attendance where they thought the digital sector was in terms of the economy and innovation.
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Kara Visits The Lobby in Hawaii

I am at a new conference organized by August Capital’s David Hornik called The Lobby on the Big Island of Hawaii. It is thick with Web 2.0 players, all here to interact and discuss issues, although without a formal program that is so typical of most Internet conferences. In other words, the schmoozing in the [...]

Day 97: Three Days Before Potential Cow Tragedy

We have almost nothing to report today on Yahoo, except to point out that there are only three more days until the official end of CEO Jerry Yang’s 100-day No-Sacred-Cows Vision Quest. While we expect the day to pass quietly at Yahoo’s Sunnyvale campus, BoomTown will mark the moment while on the Big Island of [...]

Om Malik Is Ready for His Close-Up

What is Om Malik going to announce at his party tomorrow night at the M. H. de Young Museum in San Francisco? Valleywag wanted to know what the well-known tech blogger was up to, so we will tell them: an online television interview and analysis show on Revision3 called “The GigaOm Show.” Along with tech [...]