3 posts and columns on SDForum

BoomTown Visits SDForum

in News on December 17, 2007 at 1:23 am PT

BoomTown was the opening keynote for SDForum‘s conference in Silicon Valley last week called “The Business of New Media II,” which was about–well–the business of new media. Here is the speech I gave, in which I discuss everything from how this AllThingsD.com site was created to the financial prospects of Facebook to how Marie Osmond [...]

Last Words on SDForum Event

in News on June 21, 2007 at 4:03 pm PT

In my first post about the SDForum’s annual Visionary Awards, I forgot to add a few things that were interesting to me, including a short snippet of video I forgot to put in the first one, which appears after the jump. First, Heidi Roizen–at whose luxe house in Atherton, Calif., the event took place–was also [...]

Some Vision for Silicon Valley

in News on June 21, 2007 at 7:57 am PT

Last night, party animal that I am, I also went to the SDForum‘s 10th Annual Visionary Awards, which was held at the house of well-known venture capitalist Heidi Roizen in Atherton, Calif. The not-for-profit group for-profit gave out its yearly awards to four tech figures, including The Wall Street Journal’s Personal Technology columnist Walt Mossberg, [...]