By Chris O'Brien, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Jul. 27--Last week, I attended the Facebook developers conference to hear founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg discuss the future of the social-networking site. This was my first time seeing the man Rolling Stone called a "Nietzschean superdork" in person.

By Chris O'Brien, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Jul. 16--Those like me who believe in a free and open Internet are on the cusp of a major victory. And we have barbershop quartet music to thank.

By Chris O'Brien, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Jul. 13--The standoff is over. Shareholder activist Carl Icahn is going to win his proxy fight with Jerry Yang and seize control of Yahoo. All that happens between now and Aug.

By CHRIS O'BRIEN By Chris O'Brien San Jose Mercury News My family's descent into TV-watching chaos started slowly in 2004. And it began with an innocent observation. "Hey, Netflix rents TV shows, too," I noticed.

By Jack Davis and Chris O'Brien, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Apr. 13--Silicon Valley's 150 largest companies definitely got leaner last year, and the results paid off handsomely in the amount of cash they generated.