Redeye VC: 53,651

Every so often you read a post that completely nails something from whatever angle you want to look at it, this is one of those posts.

By coincidence I had a meeting yesterday for an advisory board I participate on with some VCs and other “Valley people”. The meeting was to discuss an upcoming conference for [...]

Google indoctrination

check out the photo in this post… that’s just creepy. Maybe Google should have called the day “re-education camp” instead of “press day”.

Silicon Valley Sleuth: Does Google have too much money?:

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Jot acquired by Yahoo!

Mike heard this rumor as well.

Based on the call I had yesterday about this and the quality of the source, I’d give it better than 85% probability, more like 99%.

So Yahoo! is getting in the wiki space. Given that Jot has pretty much regressed to consumer wikis it makes sense, but at the same time [...]

French Senate amends iTunes DRM bill

WTF does this mean? The point of copyright law is to provide a framework that applies to all copyrighted material, what the French proposed law suggests is that all copyrighted content will now have the effect of have a license on it and taken to the ridiculous extreme you could envision a scenario where someone [...]

Sony bites music bullet, opts for Apple compatibility

What is really pretty extraordinary about this story is the sea shift change that has digital content has caused, the impact on the Japanese consumer electronics companies, and the realization that it was the advent of the CD in the 1980’s and it’’s complete lack of DRM that has enabled all of it.

There was a [...]

Oracle at SAPPHIRE

As many of you know, our big SAPPHIRE event is next week in Orlando. It’s a big deal for us as it is the single largest event we host each year. Needless to say, Oracle will no doubt make an attempt at some competitive advertising at the event in an attempt to steal some of [...]

Google Goes Corporate

Not much in the way of breaking news or unexpected insight, but this interview is still a good (quick) read. I have to believe that Google is looking well beyond simple search behind the firewall, I’m thinking of how gmail recognizes a UPS tracking number and inserts a “do you want to track this package” [...]

eHarmony appoints third CEO this year.

I guess it’s fair to say that eHarmony’s “scientific” approach to matching people for personal relationships doesn’t extend into the area of executive recruiting… the irony here is almost as thick as when a big tax service (can’t remember which one) had to settle with the IRS for income tax violations related to their accounting [...]

Open Source as IP Socialism

This is old news, I’m surprised that it’s getting rehashed. Nonetheless, it’s worth pointing out that there are a lot of voices within SAP that are saying that open source is a meaningful trend and real opportunity for us. It’s unfortunate that the whole debate around open source gets hung up on IP when two [...]

U.S. to Auction Frequencies for In-Flight Internet Use

and if the carriers price their in-flight services like they do the little used “airfone” service then we can expect further under-utilization of these frequencies.

U.S. to Auction Frequencies for In-Flight Internet Use - New York Times:This part of the spectrum has been reserved for pay phones now on planes. But since it is little [...]

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