AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

NY Times - John Markoff
At the outset of his presentation at the opening session of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Steve Jobs showed a slide of a stool with three legs to describe the company’s businesses: Macintosh, music and the iPhone.
The company is making another bet on parallelism, and the implications may be more [...]

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LA Times
Michael Arrington landed interviews with most of the major contenders for the White House to weigh in for his ‘tech president’ primary. read more

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L.A. tech party scene heats up, from the LA Times:
In the high-tech world, Southern California is almost as cool as Silicon Valley. Heather Schlegel knows this because she goes out almost every night.
Schlegel, a chronic blogger and the owner of Purple Tornado, a West Hollywood consulting and event-planning firm, attends geek dinners, techie lunches [...]

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Social Search Sites Could Challenge Stalwarts:

Search is broken. Of course, with Google at more than $600 a share, 91% of us using search engines and studies showing we’re largely satisfied with their results, it’s easy to discard this statement. The problem, however, is that search engines can bring back too much information. With content [...]

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Stumbled across the World Economic Forum’s awards for tech pioneers on Red Herring here. Hard core innovation in biotech, energy and IT from around the world… here. My favorite: check out Garlik, an early app for the semantic web focused upon personal security here.
47 Tech Companies That Could Change the World
The World Economic Forum [...]

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Future of Entertainment, according to the Hollywood Reporter
A freestanding supplement to today’s Hollywood Reporter (Dec. 26th) includes a bevy of articles about the future of entertainment, concentrating non surprisingly, on all things digital.
It starts with another examination of the digital studio model in the wake of Quarterlife: Race on to create studio [...]

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What’s making writers and studios so nervous - The Los Angeles Times
The union says it won’t be shortchanged on new media as it was with DVDs. But no one’s sure of future dollars.
Damon Lindelof got a sobering glimpse of his future as a television writer two years ago as he strolled through the Grove shopping [...]

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The social website started by a Harvard dropout is stealing the spotlight from Google. LA Times
PALO ALTO — – Google Inc. is used to being the center of attention, the giant that executives at other Internet companies wish Silicon Valley would shut up about already. For the moment, they’ve got their wish. People here can’t [...]

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