Post and video by Miiko Mentz Bubblicious Reporter Alison McNeill recently presented Bubby awards to five winners at Twiistup 5, which was held at Hangar:8 at the Santa Monica airport. On Friday, we posted our highlight reel of the Bubby Award winners and this week we’re posting one interview ...

Post by Alison McNeill and video by Miiko Mentz The inaugural Bubby Award was presented to celebrity blogger Perez Hilton at Twiistup 3, so it seemed fitting that we give away more awards during our recent trip down to LA for Twiistup 5. Here are the winners this time around: Favorite Do-Gooder: Cau...

It's about time. Google's finally starting to use speech recognition for video search. I still don't know why it hasn't just acquired Blinkx and owned the market. Compared to YouTube, Blinkx would be a bargain, and they could monetize it better. Anyway, the rollout could hardly be more limited. It's...

MySpace nearing deals with music labels — Before long, MySpace may be offering streaming music and ad-supported downloads from Sony BMG and Warner Music Group, according to a report from the NY Post. A deal with the two music giants might challenge the dominance of Imeem, which has so far held...

(Running notes from the LIFT08 conference in Geneva - Conference blog.) The third LIFT conference started tonight with an "off-Broadway" event (not part of the main program) devoted to startups. The "Venture Night" is sponsored by ICT Cluster, a Swiss governmental initiative to foster entrepreneursh...