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Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online : Dot-com Bubble Boy Josh Harris Returns to Web : '90s prankster Josh Harris meshes MySpace with YouTube

Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online : Dot-com Bubble Boy Josh Harris Returns to Web : '90s prankster Josh Harris meshes MySpace with YouTube
Josh Harris, the merry prankster of Silicon Alley circa 1999, has emerged from hiding, and launched a new web startup—this time in Los Angeles. Operator11.com, a "social television network," is like a mashup of YouTube and MySpace that allows users to collaborate on the creation of video webcasts. It's also a little like Harris's legendary dot-bomb, Pseudo, but with user-generated content. The site launched in May without fanfare—except for a jeering mention from Valleywag, after an unsuspecting visitor to the site was greeted with live footage of a gentleman whacking off. ("Good publicity," Harris says.) Otherwise, the site has been flying low, an altitude that doesn't come naturally to a serial provocateur once worth as much as $40 million.

Operator11: Live Netcasting Gets Social

Operator11: Live Netcasting Gets Social

There's no denying that live online video is hot right now. Sites like Stickam, Ustream, Justin.tv, and Kyte allow users to broadcast themselves to the world 24/7. On Monday, I had a chance to chat with Josh Harris, the CEO of Operator11, a new entry into the growing field of live online video companies and he told me why he thinks his service pushes the medium in completely new directions.

Operator11, which launched about two months ago, touts itself as an online television network that offers anyone the chance to host their own live television show. Where Operator11 differs from its competitors is that its software allows viewers to actually become guests on the show and participate in more than just text or voice chat.

The Growing Wind Industry

The Growing Wind Industry

The burgeoning wind power industry has spurred the construction of new manufacturing plants in Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and South Dakota. DMI Industries, a wind tower manufacturer, announced in May its plans to acquire a facility near Tulsa, Oklahoma, that will give the company the ability to produce larger towers for offshore wind plants and to ship them overseas. DMI intends to modify the existing plant for its purposes by early 2008. The facility features 500,000 square feet of production space and will ultimately employ up to 450 people. In late June, Knight & Carver held the grand opening for its new 26,000-square-foot wind blade production and repair facility in Howard, South Dakota, bringing at least 35 jobs to the state. On July 18th, LM Glasfiber announced that they will also build a new wind blade facility, to be located in Little Rock, Arkansas. The plant will begin operations early next year and will employ more than 1,000 people within five years.

Sterling Communications Recognized as Top Tech Communicator by IT Industry Journalists

Sterling Communications Recognized as Top Tech Communicator by IT Industry Journalists

High-Tech Public Relations Agency Places in PRSourceCode’s Annual Study

LOS GATOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sterling Communications Inc., an independent, full-service high-tech public relations agency, announced today that is has been named to PRSourceCode’s Top Tech Communicators list, placing second in the mid-sized agency category. The study, which is based on survey responses from more than 300 leading information technology (IT) journalists, ranks agencies based on responsiveness, reliability and overall recognition of editorial needs.

“The relationships between PR professionals and journalists are based on trust and credibility – two characteristics that, according to the industry’s most prominent editors, Sterling Communications exemplifies,” said Steven J. Smith, general manager, PRSourceCode. “We congratulate the company on being recognized as one of the PR industry’s most effective communicators.”

The survey, now in its second year, honored the top five large, mid-sized and small public relations agencies, as well as the top 15 corporate PR departments. Survey respondents included IT journalists from some of the industry’s most influential publications such as COMPUTERWORLD and EWEEK, as well as IT reporters at consumer-oriented news outlets such as USA TODAY and U.S. NEWS and WORLD REPORT.

“Sterling prides itself on our ability to effectively communicate the unique stories of each of our clients, and to do so, we rely heavily on the relationships we’ve formed with the media,” said Marianne O’Connor, president and CEO of Sterling Communications. “It’s extremely gratifying to be recognized by the editors we work with on a daily basis. It’s also a true testament to the effectiveness of our philosophy that building credibility, and not hype, is the best way to represent our clients.”

More details about the “Top Tech Communicators” study, including a full list of winners, is available at http://www.prsourcecode.com/TopTechCommunicators2007.asp.

Technology News - New York Times

Technology News - New York Times

Newsflash: Time May Not Exist — Discover Magazine

Newsflash: Time May Not Exist — Discover Magazine

No one keeps track of time better than Ferenc Krausz. In his lab at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, he has clocked the shortest time intervals ever observed. Krausz uses ultraviolet laser pulses to track the absurdly brief quantum leaps of electrons within atoms. The events he probes last for about 100 attoseconds, or 100 quintillionths of a second. For a little perspective, 100 attoseconds is to one second as a second is to 300 million years.

But even Krausz works far from the frontier of time. There is a temporal realm called the Planck scale, where even attoseconds drag by like eons. It marks the edge of known physics, a region where distances and intervals are so short that the very concepts of time and space start to break down. Planck time—the smallest unit of time that has any physical meaning—is 10^-43 second, less than a trillionth of a trillionth of an attosecond. Beyond that? Tempus incognito. At least for now.