At the same time, the core of the elite liberal constituency--academics, high-tech businesspeople and media figures--has been growing steadily in wealth and influence.
And in his current tech startup, Jay Adelson, a co-founder of several tech companies, including the social-media site Digg, is experimenting with peer-based bonuses and clear salary bands to help employees feel they are getting paid equitably, although individual salaries aren't published.
This is the younger, tech-savvy, social media crowd that flocked to Obama during his race for the presidency in 2008.
The American Museum of Natural History has enlisted all manner of multi-media gizmos and high-tech gadgets to bring the story of the Endurance expedition to life.
"We do focus groups with consumers 18 to 34, the most desired demographic, the most tech-savvy, and their media consumption habits are changing, " he said to The New York Times.
Unlike many social-media darlings, tech bloggers in Silicon Valley largely ignored the site until they noticed that it was growing like mad.
But the act of actually doing the hard work is up to us, no matter our social media or high-tech gadgets.
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But Microsoft estimates that about 27% of U.S. consumers are media-philes and tech-enthusiasts who might be ready to try moving the video they've been collecting on their computers into their living-room televisions.
"I think John sees himself putting money into creating a revolution in the structure of media or high-tech companies, " says Robert Johnson, a Malone partner since 1980 and chairman of BET Holdings, which owns Black Entertainment Television.
In addition to providing a dedicated student entry, the William Fox Amphitheater for student orientation and an Internet reading room, the Education Center will offer high-tech, hands-on instruction through a digital learning suite, comprised of two media labs and a seminar room, and the Nam June Paik Experimental Production Studio.
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Its economy is growing at a steady pace (about 3% next year is the latest guess) with a goodish spread of high-tech and service industries, especially in media and telecoms.
In the same way that wafer-thin tech and telecom firms became massively valued, whopping price tags were slapped on intangible media assets - and companies are now having to pay for that carelessness.
At least with 3-D hype deflated, media and tech companies can focus on more important things.
Mr. D'Aloisio became a minor tech celebrity, and his efforts garnered numerous print-media articles and TV appearances.
Ben Parr, co-editor of the social media and tech blog Mashable, said he had expected more from Microsoft's keynote, but that the company did show off the fact that it had a good year in 2009.
The SEC seems to have understood the diversity of interests here: brick-and-mortar companies as well as high-tech pioneers, investors who live in the digital media and investors who may not even own a computer.
Additionally, hundreds of companies that would have used these services have gone out of business in the past few years--many of them young tech ventures that bombarded the media daily with their latest funding or product announcements.
In a room full of media heavyweights, CEOs, and high-tech entrepreneurs, the debate is hardly philosophical.
Do two companies really deserve to suck up nearly one-quarter of the entire tech coverage pumped out by the media?
While he's spoken with some of the entrepreneurs whose startups he funded through those platforms, he says he opted to invest in them mostly based on information he found online, including founders' portfolio websites and social-media profiles, coverage of their companies by tech blogs, and comments about their products within the funding sites' discussion forums.
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MIT's Media Lab is chock-full of cutting-edge tech projects that researchers create, then often license to manufacturers and developers.
Tech-savvy travelers are also taking matters into their own hands and using social media tools such as blogs, location-based technologies, and instant messaging services to respond to emergencies.
Both tech entrepreneurs, Campbell was the president of QD3 Entertainment, a multi-platform media company, and formerly served as the Director of Business Development at Microsoft, while Watt previously co-founded MoviePass and NextMedium.
Because it's so hot right now, Apple is able to take a go-it-alone approach to product releases, summoning the world's tech media to the Bay Area for press conferences that focus only on its new products and bottom line.
Last year, we launched our 30 Under 30 project, where we named 30 up-and-comers in 12 industries, including science, media, and tech.
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SIM2 and Entertainment Experience, which heretofore focused on unique digital media products for the commercial cinema, education, and hi-tech display market spaces, announce that they will begin offering a hardware-software content solution-including pre-loaded, fully licensed motion picture content-that delivers better-than-HD digital video performance to home buffs.
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They are PhD students at the MIT Media Lab and have an all-star record related to other cool tech projects like the Scratch programming language.
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After a decade of tepid growth and some years of job losses, Silicon Valley has blown itself another huge tech bubble, this time driven by the social media craze and a surge in private-equity investment.
Its common to wax poetic about the infinite benefits of using social media, and I get the real, society-changing potential of P2P tech.
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