YellowBot - Local Search that Works

Over the years I have been thoroughly unimpressed with Yellowpages.com for local search, yet in a display of cognitive dissonance I keep using them when I need to find a local business. Almost every time I give up and Google, which itself is okay but not great for local search. The yellowpages.com categories are confusing, […]

Piling on the VMW Mess Today

Lot’s of commentary today about VMware missing their number and CEO Greene out of the top job. For the record, when I was at SAP Ventures we looked at this deal but passed because of the husband/wife team (generally a big red flag for venture deals). It worked out for Diane and Mendel, and it […]

Dayak - The Recruiting Marketplace

Dayak is one of the most interesting companies I saw at the Launch Silicon Valley event yesterday. What I liked about it is that they don’t seek to disintermediate the recruiting market, they attempt to optimize the existing marketplace dynamics by enhancing the opportunity to recruiters (the intermediaries) to make more money through the ability […]

Icahn’s Rat Pack

Kedrosky is right, this is by far the most humorous take on Icahn’s proposed slate of directors:

Sake Oil - aka Mark Cuban: a An entrepreneur with a history of creating companies that he then sells for far more than they are worth to sucker corporations. Cuban sold broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7bn […]

HP/EDS Makes Sense

Dennis nicely captured the 3 people that I’ve read on the HP/EDS deal: Tom Foremski, Larry Dignan, and Vinnie Mirchandani:

My take is skewed by experiences I’ve seen in Europe where EDS has been removed or had its contractual relationships significantly cut back as projects have either failed, been ‘botched’ or it’s been forced to bid […]

Yahoo, Dead Man Walking

I had a meeting at Yahoo on Friday afternoon. It was like the other 1,835 meetings I’ve had there over the years, it also won’t produce anything meaningful.

What struck me about the meeting was how little energy there is on that campus, it’s a dreadful place to be, even if just briefly. The other folks […]

Monster Cables Gets Soundly Beaten

When we put our home theatre in I became obsessed with cables for the simple reason that you can easily spend as much on cables as all your equipment. Through one of the audio forums I found Blue Jeans Cable and had high quality speaker, interconnect, and various other cables made to length for what […]

The Microsoft Store…

Wish I saw this before I wrote my earlier post on Vista.

And finally, Microsoft is rumored to be getting into the physical retail store game to counter the popular Apple Store, and Adam Frucci over at Gizmodo offers a Simpsonian take on what an MS-Store might look like:[From Amazon Current’s Blog: Bites from […]

Rivalmap - Competitive Intel

I have a favorite application that I use on an almost daily basis, Rivalmap. I first started talking with Andrew Holt last year when their unfortunately named product called Competitious came out (btw they admit the naming mistake) and have stayed in touch with Andrew and co-founder Kris Rasmussen as the evolved the product.

First and […]

Apple’s 45 Million iPhones in 2008

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster took a lot of heat back in June 2007 when he predicted, three weeks before Apple even began selling the iPhone, that the company would be shipping them at the rate of 45 million a year by 2009.[From FORTUNE: Apple 2.0 Analyst: How Apple sells 45 million iPhones […]

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