Universal Access to All Knowledge
I’ve never met Brewster Kahle, inventor of WAIS, co-founder of Thinking Machines, founder of Alexa and digital librarian for the Internet Archive. But I’ve watched his contributions over the years and...
View ArticleAcquisition Creates Blogging Powerhouse
Six Apart which produces the Moveable Type publishing system and TypePad blogging service raised $10 million in venture funds in October. Today it announced the purchase of LiveJournal, a blogging...
View Article7 Reasons Google Will Rule the World
Once again Google surprised the street with much higher than expected earnings. The stock price has jumped $20 today to more than $210 per share and the market cap is almost $58 billion. I will not be...
View ArticleSearching for Open Source Code
When Jeff Bezos introduced Amazon’s A9.com search engine’s OpenSearch project, he mentioned Koders.com. I checked it out. Koders.com claims to be the leading search engine for open source code. It’s...
View ArticleOurmedia vs Google; Wikipedia vs Britannica
Google announced that it will host personal video content soon, but Ourmedia.org (a non-profit) is already offering free permanent hosting of any personal audio and video content. Check out the...
View ArticleAn Experiment in Open Source Business Ownership
I don’t have time to blog today…I’m preparing to fly out for the AlwaysOn Network event at Stanford…but I got this email about a very cool “wisdom of the crowds” concept where a group of 2,500 or so...
View ArticleFinding Angels and VCs
I think LinkedIn.com is one of the best ways to find angel investors in your area. With 3.5 million members, including many investors, this is a great service and a great way to get introduced through...
View ArticleQuotes from Business Leaders
I just noticed that a fairly large selection of quotes from business leaders has been added to the StrategyTree.com wiki. The beauty of a Wiki project is that any individual can add content and make...
View ArticlePrediction: Facebook will be the largest social network in the world
I saw history in the making today. For some reason, I was lucky enough to be in San Francisco for the Facebook f8 Platform launch event. This announcement was at least an 8.0 on the Richter scale. It...
View ArticleGoogle Gears
I didn’t have time last week to make a big point about the announcement of Google Gears, an open source software project aimed at enabling online web services (such as Google Reader, an RSS client, and...
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