Kara Visits Offbeat Guides!

This week, I went on a trek to downtown San Francisco–from ATD HQ, located in the wilds of the Castro–to visit David Sifry, the jovial Web entrepreneur who recently launched Offbeat Guides. The San Francisco-based start-up makes “personalized, up-to-date travel guides that cover over 30,000 travel destinations, using a combination of search technology and curation by both amateur and professional travel experts.” In other words, on-demand travel books with a touch of humanity.
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What Happened at South By Southwest? A Google Guy Explains.

South By Southwest isn’t just a chance for Webby folks to drink. They also spent a lot of time thinking about the big issues of the day: Namely, what does Twitter mean, and what should we do about it?
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Kara Visits DLD in Germany: The Naomi Campbell Edition

Why was supermodel Naomi Campbell suddenly standing right next to German publisher Hubert Burda at the final lunch for his company’s DLD–Digital, Life, Design–conference in Munich yesterday? I have no idea, nor do I know why Burda broke out into song either–how much do you have to love a media mogul willing to do that? [...]

The Tech 10: Dell Redoes the Math, Skype's Gripes and H-P Has a Great Q3

Note: John Paczkowski is on vacation and won’t be writing or posting videos until he returns Monday, Aug. 27. To keep you abreast of tech news while he’s away, we’re compiling a daily digest of 10 must-read tech stories. We’re calling it the Tech 10 and it will appear in Digital Daily. Dell says it [...]

The Tech 10: Dell Redoes the Math, Skype’s Gripes and H-P Has a Great Q3

Note: John Paczkowski is on vacation and won’t be writing or posting videos until he returns Monday, Aug. 27. To keep you abreast of tech news while he’s away, we’re compiling a daily digest of 10 must-read tech stories. We’re calling it the Tech 10 and it will appear in Digital Daily. Dell says it [...]