December 2006 - Posts
The Wall Street Journal devotes its debate feature to the Bubble 2.0 question.David Hornik takes a position similar to the one I've been advocating: "I do not believe that the existence of too much venture capital
money chasing too few interesting ideas
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When last we looked at the Department of Homeland Security's US-VISIT program, "a network of biometric-screening systems, such as fingerprint and ocular scanners, that ties into government databases and watch lists to check the identities of millions
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company is offering rebates to customers who use virtualization software to increase server efficiency and lower data-center power consumption. Here's how we put it this summer: Another way of managing server
resources involves
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Dave Winer extends the life of Scripting News, at least until its tenth birthday in April '07.
Good. I've been getting a lot out of Dave's blog of late.
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Nick Carr: "IBM and Yahoo are pulling a Google on Google. The duo has announced that they'll start giving away a basic version of IBM's OmniFind software for searching corporate documents, undercutting one of the few products that Google actually charges
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We looked recently at the long tail of both creative talent and distribution muscle that the Internet makes available to advertisers. NYT on another aspect of the story: "Advertisers have long been drawn to Times Square as a valuable place to
reach consumers,
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Jon Udell is joining Microsoft as an evangelist.
Scoble's gracious comments.
Valleywag.
Techmeme links.
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Too many execs are behind the curve on the business value of going green, but some of the smart ones get it.
eBay runs one of the largest data center operations in the world, managing a half-dozen or so facilities, each containing thousands
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Email spam is back in a big way. Why? NYT: "[S]pam stock cons work. Enough recipients buy the stock that spammers can
make a 5 percent to 6 percent return in two days."How? Nick Carr summarizes the Times: "[S]pammers have successfully defeated the four
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Thomas Friedman in the New York Times: "Shi Zhengrong...is China’s leading maker of silicon photovoltaic solar cells, which
convert sunlight into electricity. Yes, the seventh-richest man in
China is a green entrepreneur!"Green, the color of money.
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Nick Carr on Google's five-product strategy: "In a series of recent high-profile statements, Google's cofounder Sergey Brin and its CEO Eric Schmidt have made it crystal clear that they've been disappointed by the results of the company's new-product
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My latest CIOI column begins thusly:
Businesses are in business to make money, not to save the planet. But when environmentally conscious policies make good business sense—when being green yields green—everyone wins.
You can only win, though, if you
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Hampton Dellinger is running for lieutenant governor of North Carolina (video and transcript of announcement), and he's got an interesting page at his website: "Help Manage the Campaign."
Do you want to advise Hampton on the best way to communicate
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A very interesting conversation in the Wall Street Journal about Microsoft and innovation, featuring Dave Winer and Robert Scoble.
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