"We're five for five," said Ed Niehaus, a cofounder of Niehaus Ryan Wong, a San Francisco public relations firm that serves technology-company clients.
Social computing enables and serves technology-mediated social services and applications that in turn generate vast amount of complex social data; such data are managed and processed through Big Data tools; then insights and prescriptions are derived from data analytics methods and algorithms.
If Fuller's ideas serve technology well, technology has returned the favor.
But its heart is ad "serving" technology, which delivers advertisements on to a web page and monitors them when they get there.
FleetBoston's investment bank, Robertson Stephens, is struggling to branch out from serving technology companies, its core clients before the Internet bubble burst.
"We are still building out the serving technology for the notification so the notice may sometimes not appear where it should, and vice versa," he said.
Until last fall, Mr. Snow was chairman of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, a San Francisco law firm that rose to prominence in the late 1990's largely by serving technology companies.
Reporting to me, he will be based in New York and will work closely with Chet and Mark to drive the global strategy of this newly combined platform to serve technology, media and telecom companies around the world.
A Northern California law firm, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, said yesterday that it would absorb the Venture Law Group, a 10-year-old Silicon Valley firm whose lawyers have specialized in serving technology and start-up companies.
They make the case that, after a century of leading the world in supplying the educated workers needed to serve technology, the U.S. has fallen behind in education.
