Most Americans have probably already forgotten about social networking pioneer Friendster in favour of more hip MySpace or Facebook. Likewise, Friendster had crossed out the U.S. market along with the rest of the world except for Asia! At least...

I was last night at Aliph/Jawbone's party in San Francisco, for the launch of the company's latest generation bluetooth headset. For the celebration at the "I-wish-they-had-AC" Varnish Gallery Aliph's PR firm, Outcast, managed to attract the stars of the...

Last night, Ann Winblad (pictured), co-founder of software venture capital firm Hummer Winblad gave a very interesting keynote speech in honour of the companies awarded by the Red Herring. "What hasn’t changed is any company that wins the Red...

In a little over a year, the site TheFunded.com has become the black sheep of the venture capitalist community. Imagine a site that lets entrepreneurs anonymously rank, review and comment about venture capital firms and partners, as well as...

Is the Venture Capital model broken? Well, one would certainly think so after listening today at Red Herring magazine publisher Alex Vieux and later, to Adesso Ressi, the creator of controversial site TheFunded.com. So what's wrong? First, venture capitalists are...

Speaking today at the Red Herring's North American conference, the magazine publisher Alex Vieux (pictured), believes the U.S. is now in a midst of a recession and presses entrepreneurs to make the tough decisions of trimming their businesses by...

Another very very very busy week coming. We'll start with O'Reilly's Where 2.0 conference in San Bruno. Expect a lot of "Geo" everything there. Then we'll move south to downtown San Jose at the Fairmont, for the Red Herring...