The future of software is that it isn’t distributed - it’s performed.
Networks allow scalability of proprietary software services in a post-open-source world.
Enterprise software is far from dead - it’s just changed beyond recognition.
Read some O’Reilly on cloud computing and OSS.
This car is such a steal… v surprised that no one’s bought it yet.
On that note, Autoquake is really starting to come into its own. I got pretty close to buying this and tricking it out with some 19″ tires, then flipping it for 42-44K.
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The Arena in Verona is an unexpected treat!
The past is always a rebuke to the present.
- Robert Penn Warren
Via StrategyEye.
*Actually, the only thing ironic about that Morissette song is that it contains no irony. Like this post, really.
Still makes me happy every time I watch it. Did you know they filmed this at one of the bandmembers’ houses and his parents didn’t find out till they saw the vid on TV? I could have been such a scene kid if it weren’t for venture capital.
Oh well, now I get to make [...]
Zynga raised a serious round of funding this week led by KPCB (my analysis last week was wrong - they know what rocks in web 2.0). Once again we’ve upped the stakes in casual social gaming. And Bing Gordon joins the board, how cool is that?
However I fundamentally disagree with Playfish being “bait” (Techcrunch’s words) [...]
Thankfully, the brakes have been restored.
Source: an exceptional dealership on Kensington Church Street - well worth a visit if you like these things.
I had a great meeting with Martin Buhr today, Amazon’s head of AWS business development for Europe. I unfortunately missed CloudCamp in London this week but my conversation with him fully opened my mind to the changes that are ongoing as services migrate into the cloud.
I’ve been a user of S3 since 2006, when Alan [...]
CNN has a must read article about John Doerr “betting the farm” (their words) on cleantech and ignoring (to KPCB’s detriment, potentially) the current generation of internet/software investments. I thought this subject is quite important, so sorry for the wall of text.
If we look around Europe to the things that have done well in cleantech [...]
I could spend half my day on slideshare. @Saul, if you’re looking for Euro follow-on, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Here’s an interesting one from CTO/CMO of Kazaa. I wish slideshare got video in there. Some of this stuff is a little cryptic.
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