Venture Chronicles

This is not technology related at all, but I did think back to the Google China episode a few weeks back when I read this op-ed in the Post today. What irritated me then was watching Google resist subpeonas from the DOJ for non-private information (keywords and URL’s) on pornography one week, and not even [...]

Larry Barbetta was unable to come to terms with Oracle on a new contract and has left the company. Larry, as many of you know, was running Siebel’s analytics group and was slotted to run the combined Oracle business unit for analytics. Chuck Phillips will make the internal announcement today about Larry leaving, if not [...]

CoComment has opened up their service to everyone, I’ve been using it for awhile and it’s growing on me. I really like the capability of having an rss feed for all of the blogs I comment in. After less than 2 weeks of operating as a closed Beta, the coComment service is now fully open! [...]

Got an email today, the opening line says it all: We have recently prepared a research report covering the window and door industry. hmmm let’s see, technology investments or the window and door industry… not just the window industry either, doors too. I find it stunning that in this day and age companies can’t do [...]

This is a week old but I wanted to link to it anyways because it’s a very interesting  analysis. So JBoss triggered a phenomenon that they can’t seem to profit from. What to do? Well, one strategy might be to rely on the greater fool theory: get someone to buy you before anyone’s the wiser [...]

Holy crap, Roger Moore is 78 YEARS OLD! That must mean Connery is like 187. BTW, I dislike all the Bond movies featuring Moore, they were too over-to-top with the gadgets and Moore comes across as a dork. Moonraker was a real laugher, but Octopussy wasn’t that bad. I also liked the early Bond films [...]