After the high profile hire of Richard Hurd-Wood, the company has once again added serious senior management talent. Karl Krainer, former marketing chief for Google in Northern Europe and before that marketer at Ebay Germany (”3, 2, 1… meins!” is his campaign), is joining Seatwave as SVP and MD Northern Europe.
Karl met Joe Cohen after [...]
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It’s been about 1.5 years since I quit hardcore raiding in World of Warcraft.
And I fundamentally disagree. If you are look at gameplay patterns in Warcraft, they are really molded on real life achievements. The only difference is that you don’t level as often. Also: no paladins, which is a plus.
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.
