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One of my favorite quotes from the book Fooled by Randomness is Wittgenstein's Rule : Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table, you may as well be using the table to measure the ruler. I believe...
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Golf is an activity that requires a tremendous amount of overhead. Aside from actually learning how to swing, aspiring players also have to set aside continuous time blocks of 4 hours, gain membership at a suitable course, acquire an expensive bouquet...
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Despite energetic community efforts and the blooming of a thousand identity initiatives , the path to profits for online consumer identity services has proved remarkably elusive. Sxip Identity , one of the best-known identity startups and helmed by identerati...
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Jeff Fisher from Desktone has posted some thoughts on desktop virtualization. One interesting scenario he paints is a future where employees will be expected to provide their own physical PCs for corporate IT departments to deliver a virtual PC to. While...
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Voltage Security, Inc. PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA www.voltage.com 400 Customers, Positive Cash Flow, and Positioned in Visionaries Quadrant by Gartner Here’s what customers are saying about Voltage Security’s information encryption solutions: “It just works...
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Not too long ago, a China-based VC told me that nearly all the startups he was seeing were of the “Copy To Asia” or C2A variety. Each pitch inexorably led to the goal of becoming the “Google of China” or “Facebook of China” or “YouTube of China” etc....
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As a young techie, it was hard to resist the temptation of looking for space aliens with my PC. And so I became an early adopter of SETI@Home, a project that now counts 3 million users who contribute their spare PC processing power to scanning radio-telescope...
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How do you know if it’s a real human trying to sign up for an account on your website or posting a comment on your blog, or whether it’s simply a software bot leaching your resources? The most common way today is to subject the alleged human to a CAPTCHA...
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Stuck on a math or science problem? Tutor.com can help. The company creates innovative, on demand homework help and tutoring services that connect students to a professional tutor online the moment they need help in math, science, social studies or English...
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NewsGator Technologies, Inc. DENVER, COLORADO www.newsgator.com Moving Beyond Outlook to Social Networks, Enterprise 2.0, and More Chew on this: RSS feeds and social media tools are more than a trend, they have become a phenomena all their own, and NewsGator...
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Social networking is here. And thanks to Leverage Software it is on popular public sites and major private community sites for some of the strongest and most innovative brands in the world, including The New York Times, Dwell Magazine, Charles Schwab...
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One of the questions I get asked most frequently by start-up software companies, and one that came up during The Online Opportunity event last week, goes something like this:   "We would like to build a business around a solution we're...
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This morning we had nearly 180 people turning up for an event at Microsoft's London office in Cardinal Place near Victoria Station. The title of the event was "The Online Opportunity" and the intention was to bring together some of the UK's...