Blackout in Europe, what will Der Spiegel Say!

Huge blackout in Europe over the weekend, it originated in Germany.

A German utility confirmed it caused a weekend outage that left millions of people in several countries without power, but denied Monday that the blackout revealed a lack of investment in Europe’s power grids. I now step into my time machine and travel back to that [...]

Jeff’s Election Day Voting Guide

As I have done for the last couple of elections, I am posting my take on the issues and how I will vote. By the way, there are a lot of debt measures on the ballot, it’s worth noting that the state currently has about $45 billion in outstanding debt and is authorized to sell [...]

Teqlo Inc. » Widgets and Gadgets!

I posted more thoughts on widgets over on the Teqlo blog.

Teqlo Inc. » Widgets and Gadgets!: The basic premise of Teqlo is the notion that widgets and web services of all kinds form the foundation for a new generation of applications that are assembled by users for users. Coincidentally, Tim O’Reilly came out with a report [...]

Spring Widgets

i am up at Widgets Live! today

Fox Interactive Media launched Spring Widgets today. By way of background, FIM is the parent company of Myspace and part of the larger Fox Media company (as you might have guessed) but they also have an interesting portfolio of gaming companies. With 120 million visitors each month they are [...]

Wikipedia Hijacked to Spread Malware

interesting way to create a vulnerability out of a feature.

Wikipedia Hijacked to Spread Malware | News on Antivirus & Security Internet | Tech2.com India:

“The good news is that the authorities at Wikipedia quickly identitifed and edited the article on their site,” said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. “Unfortunately, however, the previous version [...]

Peter Rip Joins Crosslink Capital

Peter has left Leapfrog Ventures to join the team at Crosslink. I can tell you from my unique vantage point (Peter is my investor) that this move was handled exceptionally well. There were no surprises and everything was done with full transparency and with great care.

EarlyStageVC: A bit of personal news. As of November 1, I [...]

Apple and Wal-Mart: Still Thinking Different?

Another one of the grassroots-but-backed-by-fat-lobbyists-aka-organized-labor groups has a beef with Apple because Jobs & Co. is considering a deal with Wal-Mart to give them a cut of the online music and video business Apple is building. It’s not that hard to imagine where I come down in this debate, but I do think it would [...]

Microsoft and Novell Resolve Patent Dispute

Notice how the patent angle is front and center in this announcement? Apparently, Microsoft was infringing on a patent that Novell held for server security, something to do with authentication and if Novell was to enforce it, it would be very big and very costly. Can you imagine how distasteful it must have been for [...]

Blogger Relations at Adobe, Oracle and SAP (and a bit of IBM, Microsoft, Sun)

James posted a really good piece on the different approaches that the big vendors are taking with regard to bloggers. There’s one quote in here that I want to highlight and address:

Of course Jeff Nolan was instrumental in getting SAP more blog savvy, but anyone that gives him sole credit for the company’s efforts is [...]

Website Design: The USPS website is a piece of crap

Tried to buy some stamps from the USPS website today… here’s the experience:

1) requires me to “register” as opposed to making a one-time “guest” purchase

2) select a username, type a password (twice) and a password hint (which for whatever reason is a “masked” entry meaning you can’t see what you are typing

3) hit “OK” and [...]

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