Podcast pitch

This is a first, I received an email with a podcast pitch for a new investment opportunity:Wireless ISP, OneVoice Communications, is well on its way to converting Jamaica into the World’s first completely wireless-based nation. Through its wireless Internet service and proprietary booths and kiosks, OneVoice Communications will be able to “bridge the gap” and […]

Evaluating vendors

Andy Hayler has a post on criteria and methods for evaluating vendors and it reminded me of something we used to do (and may still do, I really don’t know) for managing the process of evaluating customer requests for new features. The idea was simple, each customer has 100 votes (I don’t remember what the […]

Harvard

It’s too bad that Larry Summers got fired from Harvard, which is essentially what happened. I find the entire episode rather disturbing but couldn’t quite put my finger on why until I read this:Summers’ intrinsic aptitude comment, like the Mohamed cartoons, exposes the conflict between free inquiry and multiculturalism. Multiculturalism, whether practiced by Islamic fundamentalists […]

Memo to Guy Kawasaki

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Salesforce.com reliability issues are Oracle’s fault…

uh-oh, looks like the SFdC issues may be more serious than they were leading everyone to believe.Sources close to the company have confirmed to The Enterprise Software Observer that recent outage problems at Salesforce.com are being caused by the on-demand company pushing its Oracle database to its limits. This raises a number of questions about the company’s future […]

Business plans are underrated

I’m a fan of business plans, although like every other rational and sane person I hate writing them. One of the things that I proposed and implemented for SAP Ventures was the notion of doing a comprehensive investment memorandum to support every new investment that was proposed. It was a large document, up to 40 […]

Quote of the week - Jerry Sandoval

“I have tremendous respect for veterans and I have sponsored many resolutions at the Board of Supervisors supporting veterans’ benefits. In fact, I put a $120 million measure on the ballot in 2002 to rebuild San Francisco’s War Memorial.”Supervisor Sandoval found himself in front of an audience outside of the 48 square miles that comprises […]

PHP

Tim Bray has an interesting post on PHP, which actually gets interesting in the updates (which he appends to from email because he doesn’t have comments, pity). When SAP did the Zend investment a lot of time was spent on the technical due diligence. The slap on PHP has always been that it’s a scripting […]

Vandalize my blog, please

I think I still have my Troll, although he hasn’t posted any displays of his cutting mastery of the English language lately. I hope he didn’t run away… please come back Troll. Hopefully this site will lure him back if anything for the juvenile pleasure of vandalizing my blog. Via Scoble

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Personal Megite

Sweet! I have my own personal version of Megite. I’ve been using the general service for about a week, I’ll try my personal version for a couple of days to see how it works. Thanks to Mathew Chen for setting me up.Technorati Tags: megite

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