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15:11:55 07/06/09
David de Rothschild to Cross the Pacific... on Plastic
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HP is equipping environmentalist and adventurer David de Rothschild with the technology needed to sail 10,000 miles across the Pacific on a boat made entirely of plastic bottles. (disclosure: HP is a paying sponsor of AlwaysOn) The Pacific Ocean is home to the world’s biggest trash dump, and a large portion of that is plastic. In an attempt to raise awareness of the oceanic mess, David de Rothschild, founder of Adventure Ecology, is readying a sea voyage from San Francisco to Sydney, Australia, aboard the Plastiki, a boat made entirely of plastic bottles. Rothschild says discoveries like that of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch inspired the expedition. “I was like, hang on a second. This can’t be true,” he said in a recent interview. “Why doesn’t everybody know about this? Why don’t we know about the fact that our oceans are basically filling up with trash?” By turning the symbol of waste into an adventure, Rothschild hopes to inspire young people to develop smart solutions to environmental problems. Plastiki, built from 13,000 recycled softdrink bottles, is intended to showcase how innovative technology can be used to turn waste into a resource. The technology needed to complete the voyage is coming, appropriately, from Silicon Valley’s firstborn, HP*. The tech bellweather will equip the Plastiki crew with the material to capture and share data gathered on the voyage. HP materials include notebooks with magnesium-alloy casing and battery-efficient designs, HP smartphones, and media drives from which pictures and videos of the expedition will be uploaded to the Plastiki website. HP is also helping to build Plastiki Mission Control, an interactive activity and educational center located at Pier 45 in San Francisco, CA. The center will feature 10 interactive, energy-efficient HP TouchSmart IQ816 PCs to display blueprints and sketches, expedition equipment, maps, and films explaining the technology behind the Plastiki Expedition. Satjiv Chahil, senior vice president of global marketing at HP, told AlwaysOn that the company seeks to go beyond defensive measures when it comes to environmental sustainability. “We want to help drive a bigger change, so we are looking at ways to provide technology to entrepreneurs and innovators who will help make it a greener, better world for everybody.” David de Rothschild sought out HP as a logical partner for the project. “I didn’t partner with HP just because I want to put their logo on the screen.” He said at AlwaysOn’s GoingGreen East conference. “I partner with companies that are committed to moving towards a Planet 2.0 way of being.... My evolution has come through working and understanding corporate structure, understanding brand power, understanding how as individuals, we can’t do anything alone, and we need the influence of government, business, and the consumer." *HP is a paying sponsor of AlwaysOn
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08:23:31 06/09/09
Ray Lane on Obama as VC
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Since the administration's announcement in March that $2.4B would go to hybrid plug-in car initiatives, green VCs have been trekking to DC with their hats in their hands. No doubt, the turn of events makes many in the traditionally libertarian VC ecosystem uneasy. One possible exception are the partners at KPCB, who have a longer history of governmental cooperation, typified by their decision in 2007 to bring Al Gore on as a partner. Ray Lane, one of the most even-keeled VCs in the Valley, prescribes a dose of sobriety. He notes that many of the large-scale, high-tech developments of the last century, from automobiles to the Internet, had their origins in government-funded projects. His take is that Uncle Sam's involvement is a promising temporary treatment for the cash-flow crunch, but anticipates a return to more private system once the economy recovers. So far, Tesla and Fisker and Bright Automotive have been leading the publicity charge to win DOE dollars, with bids in the $350M to $400M range. KPCB has a small stake in Fisker, and last year teamed up with Rockport Capital and Norweigen car maker Think Global to form a mass-market plug-in car company called Think North America.
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17:54:08 05/10/09
Bill Gurley: Snapshot of a Speeding Train
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Bill Gurley, General Partner, Benchmark capital gave a Keynote address at the OnHollywood conference on April 29, 2009. Bill issued an incisive overview the key trends, barriers, affecting the development of online video.
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15:45:44 03/20/09
Climate, Economics, Reality, Part 2
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What is really happening to the earth? What are the observational and simulation data saying? What is the political and economic reality - are business models based on climate change mitigation the ultimate safe haven for investors, or overhyped schemes that are vulnerable to imminent shifts in scientific consensus? Moderator: Paul Deninger, Vice Chairman, Jefferies & Company, Inc. Howard Hayden, Professor Emeritus, Physics, University of Connecticut Richard Lindzen, Professor, MIT Nick d'Arbeloff, President, New England Clean Energy Council Paul Epstein, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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15:47:25 03/19/09
The Great Green Grid
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Is this the dawn of the electric age? What technologies and what companies promise to upgrade the grid to ultra efficient transmission? Who is working on smart grid applications inside the meter and at the utility? How are these tools being used to facilitate ultra-efficient use of electricity? Moderator: David O'Connor, SVP Energy & Clean Technology, ML Strategies Tim Healy, CEO, EnerNOC Inc. Tom Casey, CEO, Current Group LLC Karl Lewis, Chief Strategy Officer, GridPoint, Inc.
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13:56:32 03/15/09
The Big-Brand Marketing Wish List
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Big-Brand Marketing Roundtable Chief marketers discuss digital marketing—which strategies are working? How can the Web best be leveraged to build brand equity? Moderator: Brandon Gutman, Founding Partner, The FOCI Group Robert Hayes, SVP, General Manager, Digital Media, Showtime Networks Amanda Kanaga, SVP, Time Inc. Digital Jordan Corredera, Director of Interactive Marketing, Carnival Cruise Lines
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10:24:57 03/13/09
The Language of Biofuel
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Sustainable Biochemicals Panel at GoingGreen East Moderator: John Rennie, Editor-in-Chief, Scientific American Mike Ladisch, CTO, Mascoma Corporation Bill Frey, CEO, Qteros, Inc. Scott Laughlin, CEO, Zymetis, Inc. Jim Mahoney, CEO, Novomer, Inc. From high-rise agriculture to genetic engineering to enlightened, knowledge intensive advances in agronomy, thanks to the emergence of sustainable biochemicals technologies, production of food, fuel, and other traditionally petrochemically dependent products are on the brink of being cleaner and more abundant than ever.
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04:23:31 03/12/09
Intel Leads Green Computing Charge
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Charles Scott, Director Software & Services, says Intel is pushing the computer industry into ever greener pastures through cross-corporation initiatives and new manufacturing processes.
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12:51:55 02/22/09
Television and the Future
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The television is finally becoming what the pundits predicted back in the late 90s—a multi-function media device with content streaming in from multiple source. http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/31353
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11:36:01 02/04/09
New-Media Well Positioned to Weather the Storm
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As congressional leaders debated how much to inflate the federal government last night, private-sector investors and startups brought their own brand of economic stimulus to the floor of NYSE.
Over 200 media and technology insiders gathered on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for a reception that capped off the first full day of the OnMedia NYC, AlwaysOn's event for new media executives. The guest list also included ad-agency A-listers like Benjamin Palmer of Barbarian Group and Goodby's Mike Geiger.
Representing the (still kicking) boutique investment banks was Michael Montgomery, President of Montgomery & Co. He told AlwaysOn new-media startups could expect to fair well even in the current economic environment.
"I don't care what you say, the macro trends are moving in their direction," he affirmed. Of all digital media sectors, he predicts gaming will have a strong year.
As for exits, Montgomery said valuations are a more contentious than usual, but the appetite for acquisition remains strong.
"I know a number of corporate buyers who are actively looking and soliciting our advice on what to buy in today's market."
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12:01:13 02/02/09
2009 OnMedia Top 100 Companies
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AO proudly presents this year's OnMedia 100. With this list, AO's editors and our panel of industry experts introduce a new generation of game-changing players in media, advertising and marketing
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17:46:41 12/22/08
Bull vs. Bear
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John DiFucci and Sarah Friar face off to determine how big of a bear the market is looking at. http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/30539
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11:03:28 12/12/08
The Cash Crunch’s Silver Lining
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Companies' rush to cut cash spending may be the best thing to come out of the economic downturn, a technology investor says.
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14:38:09 12/05/08
Angels Still Flying (They Say)
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Startup investors gathering this week on a lush edge of Silicon Valley said recent financial turmoil has noticeably shifted power from entrepreneurs to investors.
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17:26:09 10/13/08
The Battery Debate
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Is battery technology ramping up to become the future automotive fuel of choice, or is there another solution? Read more: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/29658 You've all seen them. Smug hybrid drivers whizzing by you in the carpool lane, passing up the gas pump, and smiling pityingly at you as you fill up your not-that-fuel-inefficient sub-compact. Is battery technology really the wave of the future for the automobile industry? Or are we just victims of clever marketing and shiny, eco-green paint jobs. KPCB's Ray Lane is optimistic, saying that the industry is seeing great power and energy density in today's fuel batteries. The strides made in battery technology, he says, will produce some real, valid options for current vehicle powertrains in the next two years. Steve Westly wonders if battery technology isn't entering a Moore's Law type of technology ramp-up. Will batteries become exponentially less-expensive, lighter, longer-lasting, and better performing? Undoubtedly, batteries absolutely become less-expensive in volume, which has already been proven over the last couple of decades. Venture Vehicles Howard Levine acknowledges that constraints outside technology development are the biggest danger to battery advancement. "Currently, the market is pretty much stuck at $1,000 per kilowatt hour." The main ingredient, lithium, is a commodity, that has to be mined, shipped, processed.... Future supply constraints in lithium supply could be a limiting factor in battery production and technology advancement. Transonic Combustion's Mike Cheiky believes that batteries are not necessarily the way to go. No only are the material supplies potentially constrained, but producing batteries is extremely hazardous and rife with other issues. He says: "We could make dramatic improvements in reducing the extreme ramp-up of CO2 in the world ... if we put just half as much effort into making internal combustion engines and fuel-injector systems work as we are in batteries and fuel cells." The automotive community seems to support Cheiky's notion. The trend over the past year has been from establishing new automotive brands and alternative fueling methods to refining the internal combustion process to be more efficient, less-polluting, and reliant on more sustainable fuels.
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09:25:25 10/08/08
Reframe It Opens Every Webpage to Public Commentary
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Since the rise of blogs, the new media revolution has been driven by a proliferation of alternative news destinations. The launch today of browser plugin Reframe It could send that movement in a new direction. Reframe It creates a margin on every webpage where users can publicly comment on the site’s content—without the publisher having any control over what’s said. Read on: http://alwayson.goingon.com/post/editorial/editorial