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Do We No Longer Care About Beauty?

This is old news and has nothing to do with technology, startups or venture capital, but I just happened upon a Washington Post piece about a fascinating social experiment–violin virtuoso Joshua Bell playing for tips in a DC Metro station. … Continue reading

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To Find the Danger, This Software Poses as the Bad Guys

Michael Fitzgerald published a nice article on Veracode in NYT today. He gets to the heart of the matter about why the Veracode approach matters. Veracode isn’t the first company to try to automate elements of hacking. Companies like Fortify, … Continue reading

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ILB / RNLI

At dinner last night I was having a bit of a hard time describing the boats that the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI, which is somewhat like UK’s version of the US Coast Guard Service) uses. Since a picture is … Continue reading

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Heading to ETech

ETech in San Diego is on the schedule for next week. I’ll be at there Mon evening-Wed. If you are around, give a shout.

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Rich Internet Applications and the Future of Software

Ryan Stewart at ZDNet writes about a topic near and dear to me–the arrival of RIAs to the desktop. Some of my posts on the subject are here and here.

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Go Bears!

Update: oops!

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One-To-One Computing

The movement towards one-to-one computing is picking up steam, from Maine’s gutsy move towards giving laptops to all students to Project Inkwell (initially organized by my friend Mark Anderson to establish standards for one-to-one computing) to Nicholas Negroponte‘s $100 laptop … Continue reading

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Precious

Gates gets personal with Steve Jobs/Apple in a Newsweek article. I must agree on one thing with Bill–most PC users don’t look like John Hodgman and most Mac users don’t look like the cool kid in black. In fact, nearly … Continue reading

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Ten Worst Internet Acquisitions Ever

This brings back memories. The most recently entry on the list is Skype, which is clearly too early to tell. This list has no entries between 2000 and 2005, when eBay got Skype. Were buyers that restrained during those days? … Continue reading

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Beyond Pizza

Courtesy of my friend Jack Odell comes a valuable link for entrepreneurs who want to go beyond pizza–the Burrito Blog. For those in the Boston area who can’t decide whether it’s pizza or Mexican that’s going to feed their ideas, Jack personally … Continue reading

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