Jim Muttram

This is the view from the top floor bar at the Hyatt. You can see Alcatraz in the centre, along with the Coit Tower. And (although not shown) you can see the Golden Gate Bridge off to the left and the Bay Bridge off to…

The high point of today was a trip to Yahoo's Brickhouse research facility in the tech quarter of San Francisco. Chad Dickerson - the guy who organizes the famous hack days -gave us the run down. The facility was set up to allow an innovative…

Interesting post from Robert Scoble explaining how he and a couple of friends organised a party in under 30 hours using only Twitter. Although the example is social it started me thinking whether there wasn't a more serious role for Twitter in the context of…

What does a modern start up look like up close? Pretty similar, it turns out, to those that you might have visited in the late 90s. From the games room to the free food and drink, the bean bags and the lava lamps, to the…

My first visit - a very beautiful campus and an institution which seems to dominate not just the region but the whole technology space. We were there visiting Chuck House, executive director of Stanford's Media X - a university-meets-industry hothousing experiment designed to get multi-disciplinary…