Monday, June 26th, 2006
We had parked on Second Street in downtown San Francisco and noticed that we were right in front of Alex Wipperfurth’s offices. Alex is a well known author (Brand Hijack) and the manager of Plan B. It was just after five, but I needed to use a bathroom and we were about to […]
Monday, April 3rd, 2006
I think the easiest way to tell is when you find entrepreneurs starting businesses around your software. Take for example the Asterisk IP-PBX (released by Digium under teh GPL). Erik Lagerway of TMC points us to a new start-up called iotum who just released a new integration module. Check out iotum’s blog. Erik says it […]
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
IBM and National Geographic took on the exciting task of tracing my lineage in an undertaking called the Genographic Project. As it turns out I am related to an African man who lived between 31,000-79,000 years ago. I sent in my DNA this summer and my results finally arrived today. Here are my […]
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
Give away your software and you just might get bought. Last year it was IBM who was buying Gluecode Software (open source application server). This year it is Oracle buying JBoss (another open source application server company). How much is JBoss worth? Oracle has offered $200MM but the folks who run JBoss think it is […]
Thursday, January 26th, 2006
Backed by Texas oil legend, Boone Pickens, Dallas based Ad Giants is lead by Dan Farmer (advertising industry vet who worked on accounts such as Coca-Cola, AMEX, Budweiser, Exxon, IBM, KFC and Motorola).
Ad Giants provides process-management system for marketers and advertisers. Dan’s team has applied traditional asset management to help creative agencies, corporations and […]