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02/26 Quickbase on steroids? — Here’s a new online light weight database product that picks up where QuickBase leaves off and goes crazy. It’s called blist. It has a far snazzier (and more complicated) user interface than Quickbase. ...
02/25 Giving till it hurts — Do you get fund raising / spam phone calls from very persistent, insistent callers asking for money to ‘Support our Veterans’? I’ve gotten them more than once, and have even donated. For some reason it has stuck me that these particular calls were unusual in the high-pressure tactics they used. So I...
02/24 Oldish news, but interesting — I came across this note that the fairly famous spat between Apple Gossip site Think Secret and Apple Inc. has been settled: > “We understand that Nick Ciarelli, the journalist who ran Think Secret, is “very satisfied” with the settlement. While it is sad that Think Secret will be closing its doors, since it was a valuable news source, Ciarelli is now free to move on to other things…[snip…]” from Electronic Frontier Foundation It’s too bad. Think Secret was a valuable resource. I wonder where Nick will turn up next.
02/23 Summing up the history of human affairs — In the context of the current Wall Street excitement, I received a letter of assurance from a mutual fund manager saying, among other things: > “Dear Investors, * While the recent downdraft in worldwide equity markets may be unsettling, there is a great deal in our investments to engender optim...
02/13 From Demo 2008: Cool research site – SiloBreaker — Take a look at SiloBreaker (don’t ask me why it’s called that; is it supposed to break down silos?) Try typing something into the search box, say “Pakistan”. You will see that it identifies it as a country (it would also identify companies, people, and who knows what else.) Right off that’s interesting, right? Scroll down and in the right margin you see boxes with some rather unique perspectives: maps, article volumes, concept network, hotspots, trends, quotes, and lots of semi structured analysis. It’s a hard site to describe but looks like a unique and useful research tool.
02/12 Who’s your friend? — I just looked through my friend list and I see some people who’s name I recognize but don’t know exactly the context where I knew them from, and then there are mysteriously who I really don’t think I’ve ever known, so I can’t remember how they got there. I was discussing with some people at the party how we are going to soon have a new word to distinguish a ‘real’ friend from a ‘facebook’ (or other social network) friend, as well as a term to distinguish a ‘real’ social network from one on the computer. See one of my favorite new terms, Retronym).
02/09 About Yahoo / Microsoft and an easier way to get $2B in revenue annually — You can read all about the potential acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft, here for example, where Marc Andreessen writes: > “I think that a Microsoft/Yahoo merger would have practically no impact on any high-quality Silicon Valley startup.” (from [Silicon Valley after a Microsoft/Yahoo merger](http://...
02/05 Great magazine articles — I was going to wait until I had read each of these great articles that all won the “Sidney Awards” but this post was getting stale. And then [part two of the Sidney awards](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/opini...