Bayosphere

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Last activity: 17.04.2006

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Jan 24, 2006	Dan Gillmor tells all on Bayosphere; lessons learned	Dan Gillmor We’ve been following the noble efforts of Dan Gillmor, our former colleague at the Mercury News, as he left last year to build a new “citizen media” project called Bayosphere. He’d wanted to give tools to regular people so that ...
2006	New Year reflections — on Silicon Valley cooking, meaning, clean-tech and China	Here are a four reflections, as we enter 2006, and continue coverage of Silicon Valley innovation and the money fueling it. cooking 1) Cooking: Still ringing in our heads is a conversation we had with the founder of a start-up called Meebo ...
Dec 20, 2005	Dan Gillmor moves on, creates Center for Citizen Media	Updated While in London, we bumped into Dan Gillmor, our former colleague and well-known columnist at the Mercury News. He hinted something was up, and now it is official. He is moving on from the for-profit mission at Bayosphere, and is in...
Dec 5, 2005	Hello London; Monday roundup	London Matt is in London for ten days. Mike is holding the fort in Silicon Valley. Here’s a Monday roundup: –First, a link to the Google roundtable we’ve been hosting with our affiliate SiliconValley.com. Phew, with this our Google Fast at ...
Nov 10, 2005	Freedom Of The Press? Who Needs It?	It’s sort of a silly exercise, really, because it sets up a ridiculous condition that wouldn’t occur in real life, but Romenesko points us to a story about a Middle School teacher who asked her students what five Constitutional protections ...
Nov 4, 2005	Momentary blogging incident	Updated Yesterday we referred to a blog posting by Dan Gillmor. We’d read it via RSS, and said that we couldn’t find a permanent link. We’d assumed it was a temporary flub with his blog, and reached out to Dan to find out what happened. Tur...
Oct 31, 2005	The Open Source RSS Reader	I’ve been using Blogbridge for a few weeks now. It’s the first time I’ve seriousy used a desktop application to read feeds – I really like web based readers because there is no software download, compatibility issues, etc., and because many...
Oct 26, 2005	Firewalls Might Be More Useful If They Weren't So Damn Cryptic	Like many people, I use a software firewall on my computer. On a semi-regular basis, it pops up absolutely cryptic messages, alerting me to something trying to connect to something. The details are never particularly clear, and while most o...
Sep 7, 2005	“I’m going to f***ing kill Google” and more	For those following the details, this might get tiring. But for those wanting to catch up, John Battelle has done a good job covering the clawing and scratching in the wake of Google’s hiring of China expert Kai-Fu Lee away from Microsoft, ...
Sep 6, 2005	Katrina and Recovery 2.0	Updated At first, we were at a loss of what to say about how technology can help in post-Katrina relief efforts. The immediate problems seemed to stem from lack of organization and decision-making, not technical solutions to saving people. ...
Aug 9, 2005	Olive Symphony, a contender?	The Olive Symphony, a Linux-powered hi-fi wi-fi stereo hub, “stands a decent chance for a prime position before the living room throne,” according to this review. Olive is a privately held San Francisco company. Via Slashdot. Not surprising...
Aug 8, 2005	Google’s hissy fit about CNET	Perhaps you’ve seen the reports about the flap between Google and CNET, the result of which is that Google has decided not to talk with CNET for a year. We are surprised that it came to this, because CNET has reported more closely — and mos...
Jul 11, 2005	Microsoft’s rather short explanation on Claria	We’ve been following the Microsoft-Claria story pretty closely. We reported how Microsoft’s antispyware program is now recommending that users ignore the presence of Redwood City-based Claria’s adware product on their PCs, whereas previousl...
Jun 27, 2005	Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 20-26 June 2005	sponsored by: This week: Wrap of Microsoft RSS news, reblog/reblg, Attention, Yahoo 360 go-live, Late Show style Top Ten for Web 2.0. Microsoft RSS Wrap The biggest story of the week, probably even the year, was Microsoft’s bearhug embrace ...
Jun 16, 2005	Profile: Trumba	Company: Trumba Launched: June 10, 2005 Funding: $4.75 million in July, 2004 – Funded by August Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Link What is it? “The word Trumba is actually an old Sardinian word for the kind of horn the t...
Jun 16, 2005	John Battelle’s FM Publishing scores angel funding	John Battelle, who has become somewhat of a guru on the search engine industry, while writing a must-read blog about that sector, has raised a round of angel money for his new company, FM Publishing. Battelle previously founded The Industry...
Jun 14, 2005	Trumba’s calendar-sharing not quite there	Between the lines, our colleague Mike Langberg comes off less than ethusiastic about the calendar-sharing product offered by start-up Trumba. (He starts out his review with enthusiasm, but by the end of the piece you’re wondering why anyone...
Jun 9, 2005	Nanosolar, Miasole stir up solar cell market	Two Silicon Valley start-ups that are poised to deliver more cost-effective solar cells to the red-hot solar market have scored venture capital from leading local firms Kleiner Perkins and Mohr Davidow. (Update: Friday’s Mercury News story ...
May 15, 2005	Caught Between Bad Security And Antitrust Questions	Ever since Microsoft went out and bought an anti-spyware company people have been wondering about the conflicts this has caused within the company. One of the biggest issues concerned charging for the software, as it seemed somewhat ridicul...
May 14, 2005	Gillmor’s new gig: Bayosphere	Former colleague Dan Gillmor has pulled back the curtain on the first piece of his new venture. It’s called Bayosphere. We will reflect — and reflect on — the news, needs and ideas of the Bay Area and especially the technology sphere that i...

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What has the press written about Bayosphere?

Parsers VC has collected 21 articles mentioning Bayosphere, among them “Dan Gillmor tells all on Bayosphere; lessons learned” (Jan 24, 2006) and “New Year reflections — on Silicon Valley cooking, meaning, clean-tech and China” (2006).

Is Bayosphere still active?

Yes, Bayosphere is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 17, 2006.