Needs Questions for VC Panel

I am moderating a venture capital panel this afternoon at Defrag. Need good questions, would rather not throw out the usual buffet of questions that none of the panelists will answer provocatively.

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Live From Defrag!

I am going to Twitter the Defrag conference instead of blogging it; test the limits of 140 characters. Here’s my Twitter profile.

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Yahoo! Launches Kickstart

While immediate analogies will be drawn to Facebook, the service is actually much more like LinkedIn in that it connects students and alumni at specific colleges and universities and helps them connect on a professional level. Alumni can help students get jobs (or can find good students to fill spots at [...]

Angels vs. VCs

Overheard in the terminal today while waiting for my flight to board:

"Angel investors are like venture capitalists, except they don’t expect much in return."

Seriously, the guy said it to his friend with complete sincerity. He has apparently not met any of the angel investors I know…

It’s The Little Things…

I noticed a dashed line box around the word “Wednesday” in an email today, clicked on it and voila, create an ical event. That’s cool.

The Wisdom of Not Being an Early Adopter

Tomorrow at 8 am, Wal-Mart is offering a "secret sale" of a Toshiba HD A2 HD-DVD player for a rock-bottom price of $98.87 (and $15 HD movies…) Best Buy fought back and dropped the price of its identical Toshiba player to $99.00. I hear it sold out online nationwide within five [...]

SharePoint Unchained

Am I the only person that missed the announcement a few weeks ago that Microsoft is moving SharePoint to a claims-based authentication model, which means Active Directory is no longer a prerequisite?

The goal is to have SharePoint incorporate an authentication model that works with any corporate identity system, including Active Directory, [...]

TwitterPoster

Very very cool.

TwitterPoster is a visual application based on Twitter API. It provides a visual representation of the degree of influence of the Twitter users.

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APML

I suppose all software markets get to a point that analytics and intelligence become an important feature set, once natural maturation has led to refinement of core features. It feels like we are getting to that point with RSS and with APML the promise of doing something about it.

A big roadblock in this process has [...]

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