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Moving Day for BaltTech

Gus Sentementes — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:08:06 GMT

We have come to the end of the road for this blog template. No longer will I be using Movable Type to craft my pearls of journalism for the blog-rea ...

Facebook deletes photo of artful nude pregnant woman on Disney-owned parent-blogging site's FB page

Gus Sentementes — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:24:32 GMT

Avert your eyes! Avert your eyes! This photo was apparently deemed offensive by Facebook, and unilaterally taken down from a page operated by Babble, ...

NFL's online copyright monitor vendor threw flag too soon on Chrysler ad

Gus Sentementes — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:23:57 GMT

Yesterday, you may have followed the online back-and-forth here on the much-talked-about Chrysler ad, " Halftime in America," featuring Clint Eastwood ...

"App Economy" created nearly 500,000 jobs: study

Gus Sentementes — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:03:39 GMT

A new study from TechNet, a bipartisan advocacy group in Washington for technology companies, says that the growth of "apps" -- from Facebook games to ...

NFL asks Google to reinstate Chrysler's "Halftime in America" ad

Gus Sentementes — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:09:17 GMT

Just got word from an NFL spokesman that the NFL did not ask Google/Youtube to take down Chrysler's popular "Halftime in America" commercial, featurin ...

Youtube blocks Chrysler's "Halftime in America" commercial for NFL copyright claim

Gus Sentementes — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:49:14 GMT

I missed the Clint Eastwood/Chrysler ad spot last night during the Super Bowl halftime, but many raved about it. So I just tried to pull it up on Yo ...

What the Facebook IPO filing misses: age demographics

Gus Sentementes — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:21:26 GMT

I keep hearing in my travels that the young folk (teens and tweens) are using Tumblr alot. Tumblr, indeed, is on a roll. In the context of Facebook's ...

Facebook files for IPO, seeks to raise $5 billion

Gus Sentementes — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:54:30 GMT

At 4:47 p.m. today, Facebook Inc. filed its S-1 registration statement as it seeks to go public and raise $5 billion. Some key facts: from the filin ...

Look at how easy it is to organize a tech event in Baltimore

Gus Sentementes — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:54:23 GMT

There's been a flowering in Baltimore in the area of event planning and organizing, among the tech/entrepreneurial crowd. Social media has really conn ...

Baltimore's Lookingglass raises $5 million round of financing

Gus Sentementes — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:07:45 GMT

Lookingglass Cyber Solutions, a Baltimore firm which makes some cool cyber security software that gives organizations global insight into cyber threat ...

SpotAgent: Baltimore speed cams account for 27 percent of ticket revenue

Gus Sentementes — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:22:50 GMT

Hey, remember when I wrote about these two rascals last year who were using Baltimore city data to help you avoid getting a parking ticket? Shea Fr ...

O'Malley's digital download tax on ringtones, music, ebooks and more

Gus Sentementes — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:02:58 GMT

Maybe you haven't heard: One of Gov. O'Malley's tax proposals this year is to extend the sales tax to digital products. That means digital media you ...

Abell Foundation: Waiting for a sustainable online journalism site to fund?

Gus Sentementes — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:46:44 GMT

When you run in fast local media-gossip circles like I do (ha!), you can't resist the opportunity to ask a local power player whether his foundation i ...

RIM gets rid of its Noah's Ark problem

Gus Sentementes — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:24:00 GMT

Finally, RIM's two co-CEOs are stepping down. Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have been running the company for years, and while at the helm they'v ...

Updated: Seven of Maryland's 10 Congresspeople have not taken a stand on SOPA/PIPA

Gus Sentementes — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:45:24 GMT

{Note: This post was updated below to indicate that Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, who had been listed on ProPublica's website as not having a view on SOPA ...

NFL using court orders to shut down Chinese knockoff-selling sites

Gus Sentementes — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:42:16 GMT

In my story today, I looked at how the NFL and its teams, including the Baltimore Ravens, are now closely monitoring the proliferation of China-based ...

Fun facts from Millennial Media's IPO filing

Gus Sentementes — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:14:42 GMT

Did you hear? Baltimore's Millennial Media filed to go public yesterday, letting everyone know they hope to raise $75 million from Wall Street to fuel ...

BaltTech in 2012

Gus Sentementes — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:05:55 GMT

This is the year of BaltTech. No, not necessarily my blog. But Baltimore Tech. I'm going into my fourth (calendar) year of blogging about Baltimore's ...

New York Times accidentally pleads with 8 million people not to cancel subscription

Gus Sentementes — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:53:34 GMT

Well, this is a headache for the most esteemed newspaper in the land.... Today, at 1:25 pm, I got an email from the New York Times pleading me to ret ...

Maryland maker of Kindle cases sues Amazon

Gus Sentementes — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:08:03 GMT

It wasn't too long ago -- in May, actually -- when I was getting pitched by a PR representative hired by M-Edge Accessories to write about its growing ...

Amazon Kindle Fire's impressions growing 19 percent a day on Millennial Media's network

Gus Sentementes — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:40:22 GMT

Millennial Media, a top mobile advertising firm based in Baltimore, put out its latest monthly "Mobile Mix" report that updates trends in the industry ...

The Baltimore news ecosystem: report

Gus Sentementes — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:16:18 GMT

I stumbled across this interesting article that looked at digital/mobile efforts in Baltimore news operations, including The Baltimore Sun and the loc ...

The year in search, according to Google

Gus Sentementes — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:00:26 GMT

I don't know if I should be mortified or amused. Google today released its 11th annual Zeitgeist report, which looked at global and regional search t ...

Things are a-brewing in Baltimore's tech scene

Gus Sentementes — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:02:40 GMT

I know there's been a lot of introspection in Baltimore's tech circles regarding where the community is heading, especially the Greater Baltimore Tech ...

BaltTech's top five list of gadgets for the holidays

Gus Sentementes — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:31:46 GMT

I was on WYPR's Maryland Morning yesterday to talk about tech, and I covered what I think are some cool gadgets to give as gifts this holiday season. ...