Archive for October, 2007
Posted on October 29th, 2007.
Can The Google be denied?
The killer social app for Google is not to turn Orkut into a Facebook clone. It is to turn every Google app into a social application without you even noticing that you’ve joined Yet Another Social Network. It’s the web as the ultimate social network.
“Google just needs to bring everything together. […]
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Posted on October 19th, 2007.
The news is that Twine.com is about to release. If they actually pull “it” off, I think this could revolutionize the way organizations and groups use information. “It” is the oft-promised “semantic web”: using the MEANING of information to map relationships among topics and people. The Twine people call this mapping the “semantic graph”, of […]
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Posted on October 17th, 2007.
Short answer: methinks November 2007.
This new “conduit” that the Treasury Dept is encouraging the big banks to form sounds like fools gold. The purpose is to free up the jammed commercial paper market so Citigroup and other big banks don’t get burned by the huge (hundreds of $B) off-balance-sheet Structured Investment Vehicles (SIVs) they’ve […]
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Posted on October 15th, 2007.
Like a lot of people involved in the local technology startup scene in the late ’90s I watched with wonder as Wunderkind Jeff Arnold launched and built WebMD out of thin air, merged with Jim Clark’s Healtheon, and was a billionaire on paper in his late freakin twenties. The WebMD story inspired lots of us […]
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