Author Archive: Andy Yen

ParkMe Had Some Fun In Austin

Looks like our friends over at Santa Monica startup ParkMe (formerly Parking In Motion) had some fun while they were at South By Southwest a couple weeks ago.

LA Startup Profile: Alex Capecalatro, CEO of Hyphos

Alex Capecalatro is a young, up-and-coming UCLA-bred entrepreneur whose new service, Hyphos, aims to offer a fresh take on meeting new people to hang out with locally. Though Hyphos is his first startup, he’s a bright, ambitious, and knowledgable fellow who has a lot of great insights on the LA tech startup scene as well as the social media landscape.

LA Entrepreneur Hopes To Pass ‘Self-Esteem Act’

When we last left local entrepreneur Seth Matlins, he was just getting Off Our Chests, well, off the ground. Off…

LA Blogger Spotlight: Jenn Wong of Wayofthewong.com

LA isn’t just home to a community of bright entrepreneurs; it’s also home to a legion of great writers and bloggers. Throughout the year, Lalawag will be chatting with some of the city’s most prominent bloggers to find out a bit more about what makes them tick.

Jenn Wong (@wayofthewong) is a self-proclaimed “Urban Spelunker,” specializing in unearthing unique locations and activities to do in Los Angeles. She lives and breathes the city day in day out and shares her adventures with the world via her blog, Way Of The Wong.

These Are The Games To Pick From Sony’s List Of Free PS3/PSP Titles For PSN Outage Reparations

Sony’s finally begun the process of rolling out reparations for its millions of consumers that were affected by the Great PlayStation Network Hack Of 2011. Whether or not you’re happy with Sony’s response to the whole fiasco, they’re still offering up free stuff, so you may as well take advantage of it.

How Rockstar Games Faithfully Recreated 1947 Los Angeles In A Video Game

Local TV station KCET has an interesting feature on how Team Bondi, the developers of LA Noire, painstakingly researched from UCLA, USC, and LAPL regional history libraries in order to recreate 1947 metropolitan LA.

What Will Sony’s PlayStation Network Breach Cost Them? [infographic]

Leave it to a British promotional codes company to consolidate information on Sony’s recent PlayStation Network breach into an easy to read infographic, but hey, we won’t complain about the source. Promotional Codes has taken data from the Ponemon (not a type of Pokemon) Institute, an independent security research firm, and gussied it up into the infographic you see below.

The Banker Who Guided The Google IPO Talks About LinkedIn’s IPO Frenzy

The LA Times had a nice chat with Lise Buyer (I swear I am not making that up), the former investment banker who helped Google go public in 2004, about the LinkedIn IPO yesterday.

Tech Headlines For May 20: Apple Has 3/4 Labels For Cloud Music Service, Verizon CFO Confirms Day And Date iPhone 5 Availability With AT&T

Tech Headlines For May 20th, 2011.

LA Blogger Spotlight: Jenny Ortiz of Interviewher

Jenny Ortiz honed her interviewing skills once upon a time as an Executive Recruiter at a firm. She was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug at the same time and started a designer cake company named Tea Time Cake. At one point it all clicked with her that she should use her expertise in probing and talking with people in order to find out more about entrepreneurial women like her. Thus, Interviewher was born — a blog and social networking site focused on women who own their own businesses.

LA Startup Weekend Winner Zaarly Launches, Brings New Meaning To The Phrase “Everything Has A Price”

Zaarly is a unique take on the concept that anything can be on sale. It’s a web/mobile service that serves to connect buyers and sellers in a sort of location based reverse-Craigslist. Instead of sellers posting their wares, Zaarly focuses on posts from what people want.

Event: Tubefilter May Hollywood TV Meetup Tonight 5/18/2011

What? It’s already time for another Tubefilter Hollywood TV Meetup? You betcha sweet tushy it is! This quarter’s meetup is…

Your Google And Facebook Logins May Be Vulnerable On Android Devices At WiFi Hotspots

Another week, another “security risk” alert for a major tech company. Security researchers at the University of Ulm in Germany have tested a theory that had been circulating the web since February on the possibilities in sniffing out and impersonating login information on Android phones through WiFi networks. According to them, “The short answer is: Yes, it is possible, and it is quite easy to do so.”

Tech Headlines For May 17th: Apple’s Rumored 10th Retail Anniversary Celebration, Amazon’s Upcoming Tablets

Tech Headlines for May 17th, 2011.

Why People Share Food Photos [infographic]

Every group of friends has one. That self-proclaimed “foodie” who always whips out the camera at every meal to take a picture and alert the internet to what they are eating. You may not think it’s necessary, but for some people the ritual is almost as habitual as giving thanks before the meal. Why is this?