Benchmark is investing in both Zopa and its primary rival Prosper.com? Clones of each other.
Benchmark also invested in Linden Labs (Second Life) in California, and The HabboHotel which is basically a competitor overseas. Both develop virtual 3d worlds on the internet.
Hmm, those board meetings must be tense. The folks at Benchmark must be pretty smooth talkers…or, is this a new VC tactic that’s bound to stick?
Members of Congress (and their aides) are legally allowed to trade stocks using insider information. Pretty much the same government that locked Martha Stewart up. No, I’m not kidding.
The French have brought this on themselves. Do you see what happens when you raise people in a nation of entitlement? People think they have a right to a job. People don’t have a right to a job. People have a right to compete for a job. It’s a very different thing. Young french kids are living in a dreamworld. Don’t get me wrong. I love the place. Paris has to be one of the best cities on earth. But, this degree of socialism is not the right model for the modern world. Employers by nature are more capitalistic than others surrounding them in a socialist environment. Demonstrate value to them which translates into better business and more often than not you will have job security. This isn’t to say that every young employee who is valuable will not be fired. Some could very well be fired for reasons which have nothing to do with their contribution. Yes, no system is perfect but the French model of “job for life” is about the furthest from perfect that one can get. The French government is (finally) beginning to figure this out but now is the time to see if they have the backbone to back it up. My guess is that they will capitulate.
A few weeks back somebody trashed my Audi by running into me. We rented a new Mini. Since we live in Seattle and in a fairly congested urban neighborhood I’ve come to really enjoy this little car. It’s pretty clear to me why people living in Paris have their “urban combat cars” and then a second (nicer) “weekend” car. For cruising around in the city during the weekdays, this just might be the ideal car. You can park it anywhere. And, it’s fast and handles well. Further, it looks small but actually has decent room. I might have to buy one of these.
This post about someone new taking over the Windows team is really just another way of saying that Chris Jones and team are embarrassing the top brass by making them announce yet another Vista delay. Frankly, I kind of feel sorry for Chris and team because the reality is that Microsoft should have used what [...]
This is a really interesting story. And people wonder why Hollywood is still a bit skeptical about using these kinds of technologies for movie distribution? Now, I know that Skype is all about the phone and not movies but read the article and you’ll see what I mean. This has definately been a great month [...]
My site was down for a few days because HostRocket said my credit card had been failing for two months. True enough. Losing your wallet isn’t much fun because it takes months to restore everything back to normal. Updating my hosting account was one that I had forgotten. I must say though, every time I [...]
So here’s the recap. My name and a website I helped pull together (by subbing it out to another friend) get acusssed as being a rip of PixelSurgeon. I get hundreds of flame mails (because they posted this claim to a bunch of forums before contacting me about it.) My company site gets targeted. So [...]
Today has been a fairly humorous day for me. I’ve worked in this industry for quite awhile now and have never (until now) witnessed web terrorism personally. Web terrorism is where people send you anonymous emails without their real names or links to their URLs and say things they couldn’t or wouldn’t possibly say to [...]
So I wake up this morning to about 100 spam messages about me copying the secondave.com site. I’m simply amazed at the hate mail I got over this topic. Guess what folks. Somebody had submitted a single html page and CSS sheet which was the basis of that design two years ago to some open-source [...]