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Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
How to reform the VC industry — There's a wisp of a discussion materializing in the tech blogosphere about reforming the VC industry. I have been thinking about this for many many years. It's an exciting time because I think it might actually happen now.
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
The "ventures" we need... I just read Dave Winer's essay on the future of the venture capital industry. — Ditto. Great insight. One thing before I start thinking, I always thought it was bizarre that entrepreneurs couldn't get funded when they needed it (when the economy sucked …
Mike / CrunchNotes:
On Venture Capital — Dave Winer wrote a post today called "How to Reform the VC Industry" Robert Scoble and John Roberts of CNET follow up with their own thoughts. — I agree with the premise - that venture capital is broken (at least as it applies to new web startups) …
Jason McCabe Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Why Google made the right choice in China — A lot of folks, including John Battelle, are taking a hard line on China and our involvement there as technologists. For those of you who don't know, Google is going into China and they are—shockingly for Google—censoring their results at the Governement's request.
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Alex Bosworth / Alex Bosworth's Weblog:
Google's DoubleSpeak — Google does one thing that really bothers me: it keeps all information about itself absolutely secret and lies and misleads the public to maintain that secrecy. For a company that sees itself as the stewards of the world's information, this is troubling behavior.
Richard Siklos / New York Times:
When Terry Met Jerry, Yahoo! — WHEN Yahoo Inc. announced nearly five years ago that Terry S. Semel, then a former leader of the Warner Brothers motion picture studio, would become its chairman and chief executive, the reaction both outside and within Yahoo was not exactly one of wild encouragement.
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IP Democracy
The Doc Searls Weblog:
The revolution will be reproduced — Rex Hammock points to Richard Edelman's Me2 Revolution, and says I am requiring all of my employees to read it. … Credit where due: Richard is channeling reality. He's listening to what Chris Locke called networked markets and he's calling for PR …
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Smalltalk Tidbits …, Venture Chronicles, mathewingram.com/work, Syndicator blog and robhyndman.com
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Silicon Valley's Wireless Plans — Silicon Valley Network, a coalition of business, education and local government officials are planning a massive wireless network that would span from East Palo Alto to Santa Cruz. The SVN is looking to issue an RFP in April 2006, according to a press release .
Jtokash / John Tokash:
Dinner with Jim Allchin — The invite suggested an informal dinner with a rich discussion. A Vista demo would be involved. — I expected the night to include a group of people casually interested in Vista and a Microsoft-steered Q&A session. I imagined I would meet some people whose interests …
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Miss Rogue / HorsePigCow:
Dinner with Jim Allchin — [photo taken by: Thomas Hawk of Jim Allchin] — Somehow, I got added to this very intimate list of people to go for dinner with Jim Allchin and see a demo of MS Vista yesterday evening. I didn't know who the other attendees would be, either, so the entire evening was shrouded in a sort of mystery.
Jason Scott / ASCII:
Hardcoded — 35 might not seem like a very old age to some, but in many ways, it's a good time for me to really decide what projects of mine are going to "happen", which will not, and what, if any, new projects I should be taking on while I still have the energy and age of the 30s.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Nine Startups at E27 Summit — I attended the E27 Technology Conference today at Stanford University. Startups founded by entrepreneurs who are less than 27 years old were eligible to present. With a couple of exceptions these companies were all new to me, and a few have the potential to be real winners.
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Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Kill the Big, Bad Dragon (Teamwork Required) — Jeff Kaplan knows what it's like to try to please all of the people all of the time. Don't envy him. — As a lead game designer at Blizzard Entertainment for World of Warcraft, the ridiculously successful online PC game …
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Kotaku
Robyn Peterson / Yahoo! News:
Q&A: The Future Of Speech — Editor's Note: As we reported earlier this week, IBM unveiled new speech recognition technology on Tuesday that can comprehend the nuances of spoken English, translate it on the fly, and even create on-the-fly subtitles for foreign-language television programs.
Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:
AOL, Broadband Providers Form Alliance — AOL Forges Partnerships With Broadband Providers to Provide High-Speed Subscription Packages — NEW YORK (AP) — America Online Inc. may be focusing lately on expanding free offerings on its advertising-supported Web sites, but that doesn't mean …
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VoIP Watch
Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
New Search Service from TVEyes Offers Free Keyword Search Of Some Web-Based TV News Content & Lots More Video Search — A new free service from multimedia search engine TVEyes allows a searcher to keyword search each and every word spoken during tv news segment from well-known news organizations.
