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Every time I come to San Francisco, there is some kind of smart-ass billboard along the highway ... "ask your developer," it says.
Ask her what? Whether Twilio is better than some other provider? Whether the cloud is here to stay? Who comes up with these crazy signs?
Fortunately, it doesn't matter very much ... by the time I come back again, this billboard will have been replaced by something else just as mysterious.
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Nov 21, 2015
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In early November 2015, I flew from New York to San Francisco to take a weekend street-photography workshop under the tutelage of Eric Kim. As you might expect, I took gazillions of photos; but not all of them were specifically associated with the workshop itself. On the way out to San Francisco, I took a bunch of pictures with my iPhone; and during the weekend, I took a number of photos that had little or nothing to do with street-photography per se.
I’ll upload the photos in dribs and drabs during the next several days, and let you decide which ones are sufficiently interesting to warrant a second look…
The 50 miles (80km) between San Francisco and San Jose California is known as Silicon Valley, the world's center of high technology, but San Francisco is becoming 'Silicon City', as I'll describe below. This is the Bay Bridge. The Golden Gate Bridge is to the right of this view. No HDR.
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Settings etc.:
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Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 17-40L @24
1-minute exposure @F18 (pushing it but it looks fine at full-res)
1-LEE soft ND grad 0.9 (100x150mm) (2 grads with bright lights creates reflected lights)
Lee foundation kit filter holder with Lee 77mm adapter ring
No polarizer.
ISO 50
Small Slik tripod with Manfrotto pistol grip ball head
RAW file processed with Capture One by Phase One
TIFF file processed with Photoshop
Sturdy hiking boots to keep from falling off the hill
(This is to the left of most shots taken here to get the full 2x3 ratio frame!)
I was literally hanging off the cliff to get this perspective.
It is amazing how many high technology companies are located in Silicon Valley.
Apple, NetFlix, Quora, Cisco and Juniper (the backbone of the internet), Google, YouTube, Facebook, Adobe (Photoshop, PDF files), Intuit, Tango, LSI Logic, Symantic, Nvidia, Hewlet Packard, eBay, PayPal, Yahoo, Palm, Intel (in almost every computer), AMD and Applied Materials (the rest of the chips inside nearly all computers), turntable.fm (crack for the head) vmWare (virtual servers), Appcelerator (a great app dev. framework), Y-Combinator (The birthplace of numerous startups), Mozilla (Firefox browesr), Pandora (Internet radio in Oakland), Sun Microsystems, SmugMug photo website hosting and sharing, LinkedIn (the biggest corporate social networking site),Oracle (#1 database company), monster.com, Bloom Energy, Tesla Motors, Genentech, and many more.
But San Francisco is home to hundreds of high-tech startups and and better known companies such as Flickr, Twitter, SalesForce (cloud computing) Wikimedia (wikipedia), Zynga (80 million users play farmville etc.), UStream, Metacafe, DropBox, RapLeaf, Blurb (photo books), Dolby Labs, Stumbleupon, Digg (THE way to go viral on the internet until Reddit (Also in SF) came along), Craigslist (the biggest want-ad website with local versions around the world), Yelp (recommendations on restaurants and other things, soon worldwide), Autodesk, (the leading computer design software company), Typekit, QuantCast (Web analytics), Twilio, Square(mobile payments), GitHub, Riverbed,Heroku (cloud computing/online customer database systems), Second-life (the biggest online virtual reality game played by over 800,000 people around the world). And let's not forget Wired Magazine....etc...etc..
Genentech, Lucasfilm and Pixar are also within a few miles of where I took this shot.
There is an energetic feel to this place that is hard to describe, but perhaps a view from this spot is the best way to show it in a photograph.
Okay, this really is the last upload of the year. So I hope you have a great holiday season. I have some nice seascapes from my Big Sur summit meetup with Ivan Makarov to start off the new year.
The map shows exactly where this is. It is another place not for the faint of heart!
See my Flickr profile for a link to my newly designed website.
Resources:
Satellite imagery (choose 'National' for a local US region or use your fave website)
www.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/?wfo=mtr
Tide charting and preditions: (chose your area in US, other countries have similar websites)
tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/tide_predictions.shtml?gid=235
Wave Heights (I choose 'North Pacific from Global')
polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/main_int.html
Or Here:
www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/RP1bw.gif
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Kellie Bentz, Airbnb; Marcy Lynn, Facebook; Erika Balbuena, Twilio.org; Maryam Ghofraniha, LinkedIn; Radha Muthiah, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
Twilio had a Painting Night while I was out after my surgery. Look closely at the upper right... yeah, that little thing with the halo.
Get a close up on the next photo in the photo-stream.
One of the world’s biggest Angular conference.
The beautiful city of Warsaw, amazing national stadium, 2 days, 15 talks, 5 workshops, Q&A session and much more!
Thank you to our wonderfull sponsors: Acaicoft, 7N, Twilio, SoftwareMill, SoftwarePlant, EDC Aviation Digital, Deloitte, CodiLime, Telerik, JetBrains, DataArt Poland. Thank you for the speakers, we are really appreciate that you came to Poland and share your knowledge! Thank you for communities from all over the world for your support. Thank you for ALL attendees!
One of the world’s biggest Angular conference.
The beautiful city of Warsaw, amazing national stadium, 2 days, 15 talks, 5 workshops, Q&A session and much more!
Thank you to our wonderfull sponsors: Acaicoft, 7N, Twilio, SoftwareMill, SoftwarePlant, EDC Aviation Digital, Deloitte, CodiLime, Telerik, JetBrains, DataArt Poland. Thank you for the speakers, we are really appreciate that you came to Poland and share your knowledge! Thank you for communities from all over the world for your support. Thank you for ALL attendees!
One of the world’s biggest Angular conference.
The beautiful city of Warsaw, amazing national stadium, 2 days, 15 talks, 5 workshops, Q&A session and much more!
Thank you to our wonderfull sponsors: Acaicoft, 7N, Twilio, SoftwareMill, SoftwarePlant, EDC Aviation Digital, Deloitte, CodiLime, Telerik, JetBrains, DataArt Poland. Thank you for the speakers, we are really appreciate that you came to Poland and share your knowledge! Thank you for communities from all over the world for your support. Thank you for ALL attendees!
One of the world’s biggest Angular conference.
The beautiful city of Warsaw, amazing national stadium, 2 days, 15 talks, 5 workshops, Q&A session and much more!
Thank you to our wonderfull sponsors: Acaicoft, 7N, Twilio, SoftwareMill, SoftwarePlant, EDC Aviation Digital, Deloitte, CodiLime, Telerik, JetBrains, DataArt Poland. Thank you for the speakers, we are really appreciate that you came to Poland and share your knowledge! Thank you for communities from all over the world for your support. Thank you for ALL attendees!
One of the world’s biggest Angular conference.
The beautiful city of Warsaw, amazing national stadium, 2 days, 15 talks, 5 workshops, Q&A session and much more!
Thank you to our wonderfull sponsors: Acaicoft, 7N, Twilio, SoftwareMill, SoftwarePlant, EDC Aviation Digital, Deloitte, CodiLime, Telerik, JetBrains, DataArt Poland. Thank you for the speakers, we are really appreciate that you came to Poland and share your knowledge! Thank you for communities from all over the world for your support. Thank you for ALL attendees!
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Fortune Brainstorm TECH 2016
TUESDAY JULY 12TH, 2016: ASPEN, CO
12:10 PM
CONCURRENT LUNCHES
WINNING THE NEW TALENT WARS
Forget the products, ignore the business model, set aside the ten-year plan—if you don’t have the best possible talent in your organization, you’re up a creek without a paddle. Here’s the catch: so is everyone else. In a cutthroat environment, how will you find, land, onboard, engage, and keep the very best people? Leaders in various industries will share the tools and strategies that keep them competitive.
Stacy Brown-Philpot, CEO, TaskRabbit
Elena Donio, President, Concur
Jeff Lawson, CEO, Twilio
James Park, CEO, Fitbit
Jason Robins, CEO, DraftKings
Moderator: Aaron Task, Editor, Fortune.com
Talent Track hosted by Cornerstone OnDemand
PHOTOGRAPH BY Stuart Isett/Fortune Brainstorm TECH
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Photo taken at Silicon Valley Rocks at DNA Lounge in San Francisco by Kenneth Yeung. Permission is allowed for use in your blog, website or presentation as long as you adhere to the stated Creative Commons license for this photo/image. Attribution must be included and a link back to this photo page is required.
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Photo taken at Silicon Valley Rocks at DNA Lounge in San Francisco by Kenneth Yeung. Permission is allowed for use in your blog, website or presentation as long as you adhere to the stated Creative Commons license for this photo/image. Attribution must be included and a link back to this photo page is required.
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Photo taken at Silicon Valley Rocks at DNA Lounge in San Francisco by Kenneth Yeung. Permission is allowed for use in your blog, website or presentation as long as you adhere to the stated Creative Commons license for this photo/image. Attribution must be included and a link back to this photo page is required.
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Photo taken at Silicon Valley Rocks at DNA Lounge in San Francisco by Kenneth Yeung. Permission is allowed for use in your blog, website or presentation as long as you adhere to the stated Creative Commons license for this photo/image. Attribution must be included and a link back to this photo page is required.
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21 June 2022; Twilio branding at Collision After Hours at the Distillery District following day one of Collision 2022 in Toronto, Canada. Photo by Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile
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