Lot’s of commentary today about VMware missing their number and CEO Greene out of the top job. For the record, when I was at SAP Ventures we looked at this deal but passed because of the husband/wife team (generally a big red flag for venture deals). It worked out for Diane and Mendel, and it [...]

Well this is geekilicious… not sure what application this will result in but it’s still geek chic.

In the background, Bit.ly is analyzing all of the pages that its users create shortcuts to using the Open Calais semantic analysis API from Reuters! Calais is something we’ve written about extensively here. Bit.ly will use Calais [...]

Always funny how “progressive” ends up meaning “controlled”. The list of rules that caterers have to abide by for the DNC this August is eye popping. It gets kinda hot in Denver around August, I’ll be curious to see how that bottled water rule holds up.

No bottled water, use pitchers instead[FromFood at the [...]

“You have zero privacy anyway, get over it.” - Scott McNealy, Jan. 1999

Once again we have “privacy concerns” being used to squash efforts to make advertising more effective by targeting it at people likely to want it.

Cable and phone companies say their growth increasingly depends on being able to deliver [...]

Over at ZDNet, I wrote a piece about how SAP is sponsoring FastWork.tv and how, on the current showing, it is a waste of money. The FriendFeed conversation around this is interesting as it picks up on many themes where you have TV and sponsorship going hand in hand. A few selected quotes: the pattern of [...]