Buying Open Source Companies

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 that there […]

007 Conflict Brewing

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 […]

Ziff Davis sucks

Everyday I get at least 5 or 6 “web buyer guides” from Ziff Davis in my inbox. I have never (ever) read one of them and it pisses me off because I get so much crap. So I did what any rational person would do, I scrolled to the bottom of the email and clicked […]

Wireless not proven safe, banned

Wifi has been banned at Lakehead University in Canada (somewhere) because the dean isn’t convinced it’s safe.That’s because president Fred Gilbert won’t allow it until he’s satisfied EMF (electric and magnetic fields) exposure doesn’t pose a health risk, particularly to young people.No word on whether they are banning booze, pot, or cigarettes, all proven health hazards.

UPDATE: Okay, […]

Enterprise Social Software

Stefan Schulz works for Shai Agassi in what is loosely described as a special projects group. I’ve know Stefan for a long time and on one of his recent trips to Palo Alto he took the time to show me a system that his group had built for managing our employee alumni networks. Now what […]

Meet the new retail, same as the old retail

I had a board of directors meeting last night for KIPP Bayview Academy, which for me is a fun board because it’s smaller than most and has a nice social element to it (everyone is around the same age, no egos, nice people). In one of the crosstalk conversations a comment was made about Zappos.com […]

Naming Conventions

I was thinking that the title of Jeremy’s post should be “how to make sure everyone reads your post” but it’s certainly better the way it is now. On a serious note, it is interesting to watch how aggressively PR people have figured out blogs. I was talking to Mike Masnick a couple of weeks […]

FreeCRM

FreeCRM.com is an on-demand, web based CRM provider having a three year old track record of delivering on-demand CRM and has over 25,000 customers.The unbelievable offer of $14.95 per month is for their Professional Edition CRM.Amazingly, they actually do have a free version as well that doesn’t have outlook/blackberry sync and some additional features. It looks like they […]

SOA/ESA open thread

I’d love to hear your thoughts on what the benefits of a pure SOA application framework are. While the technical benefits are important, of equal interest are the actual end-user business benefits for companies investing in this technology. Here’s a short off-the-top-of-my-head start to kick off the discussion.

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Wireless Strategies 2006

Henry Wong from Diamond TechVentures sent me this invite to a wireless strategy forum being hosted at Pillsbury Winthrop on 3/8. Looks interesting.

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