The Modern Elevator Stock Tip

It's hard to grasp how deeply embedded high-tech is within the fabric of Silicon Valley (and by extension San Francisco) until you have a moment like I did this evening. After checking in to my hotel for the Web 2.0 Summit, I was in the elevator with the bellman, and his obligatory chit-chat was not about the weather, but rather about today's earnings announcements from Yahoo! and Intel. Very surreal.