The LAWeekly has submitted a SXSW panel that brings together tech scene thought leaders from across the nation and thought I would share our top secret wish-list of panelists. Because I can.

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By Guest Author Jacob Nahin

Cream-colored walls. Cushioned sofas. The smell of succulent Indian food wafts through the air and reaches my nostrils. “It’s going to be a filling night,” I think. I was right.

Photo courtesy Kevin Winston

Digital LA, founded by Kevin Winston and known for its hip mixers and stacked panels, held its “Entertainment Goes Social Panel” August 13 at the Writer’s Guild of America in LA My expectations going into the event were modest, for no other reason than I like to go with an open mind. Besides, it was going to be a little difficult to beat the tweet-up with LA-tech noteables Daniel Egan and KW before the panel. I won an Xbox 360 at TwiistUp a couple weeks earlier and Daniel passed off the prize to me at a nearby Starbucks. ‘Turns out the best was yet to come.

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Yesterday, if you were searching for a short-form, self-indulgent way to describe what you had for breakfast, you were shit out of luck. Basically, the Internet’s most popular social networking sites broke. Web sites that were down yesterday included:

Facebook, Livejournal, YouTube, Google, and the one that got the most spotlight, Twitter. (Gizmodo and Xbox Live were also down for those that are all about being thorough.) What’s missing?

MySpace.

Reuter’s blogger Alexei Oreskovic called the fact that the L.A. based social networking site was left out of the attacks a “stinging slap in the face.”

He continued, “Perhaps the malefactors didn’t deem MySpace a target worthy of attention. MySpace’s popularity has waned at a time when Facebook and Twitter have experienced massive user growth.”

Continue reading “This Site’s Dead Anyway: Twitter DDoS Overlooks MySpace, Does an Attack Signal a Site’s Relevancy?”