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link Prepare for vuvuzelas at next year's World Cup - USATODAY.com I need to get one of these.

4 days ago

June 29, 2009
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Structure 09: SAP Aims to Glue Together the Hybrid Enterprise Cloud

1 week ago

June 25, 2009
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Oracle's Ellison talks of big plans for cloud computing - InternetNews:The Blog - Alex Goldman

In its press release, Oracle reported “on demand” revenues. The company earned $779 million from on demand services in 2009 (its fiscal year ends on May 31), up from $694 million in the previous year, an increase of 12 percent.

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1 week ago

June 24, 2009
link Clear Lanes Are No Longer Available Just received the official email tonight. I am not terribly surprised by this announcement, but it is definitely one service I am going to miss… back to the end of the line .

1 week ago

June 22, 2009
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The first rule of data centers is: Don’t talk about data centers.

3 weeks ago

June 11, 2009
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Joe Cocker in Sonoma @jazzfest

He can still rock!

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1 month ago

May 22, 2009
link Baseball Tickets Too Much? Check Back Tomorrow - NYTimes.com This is pretty interesting. In baseball it could make a lot of sense given the number of games along with a variety of factors (opposing pitchers, team, record, weather, day of week, give-aways, etc). It will be interesting to see how much buying patterns change if at all as this gets widely adopted. Essentially, to what degree is there price elasticity to the baseball fan?

1 month ago

May 18, 2009
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The Dead

Yes.. I actually went to a Dead concert. It was quite the experience..

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1 month ago

May 14, 2009
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When I played quarterback, I always wanted a receiver like (me). I wanted a receiver where I could just throw it up and he could go get it. Or if I threw a pass, I knew he was going to cut in front of that DB and not let the interception happen and make a play
— Michael Crabtree

2 months ago

April 26, 2009
link McKinsey: What Matters: Getting history right I agree that a Great Depression is much less likely today than in the post World War period. This article does a good job of describing the political drivers of the Great Depression. While today’s recession is not so much politically driven, we still face a wide ranging failure of financial instruments independent of any single economic driver (i.e. Word War). As such, the main question is what adjustments can now be made to still maintain an appropriate balance between interconnectiveness and national autonomy. This could very well result in a new world of predominately national banks (we are already seeing this) and a stronger IMF & World Bank.

3 months ago

April 1, 2009
link Venture Backed Exits - Q1 2009 Not surprising at all, but this chart does a good job of depicting the current economic impact on the VC industry.

3 months ago

April 1, 2009