tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29406764Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:51:40 +0000IBFIPOfaultlineglobaljens francisventure capitalPivotal LabsTwitterhttp://faultlinegroup.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)Blogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29406764.post-7209192871171375189Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:05:00 +00002008-12-12T21:36:30.064-08:00So I finally have Internet radio in my car and it's working great. It's not exactly the way I thought I would get it, but it works great nonetheless.Background: I love Internet Radio! Ever since Anders Kruus and I discovered it working for a little-known web wealth-management company in the Avenues in the early '00s. No ads, better music, virtually no downside, EXCEPT that you need a http://faultlinegroup.blogspot.com/2008/07/internet-radio-in-my-car.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29406764.post-7326574252946022796Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:23:00 +00002008-12-12T21:36:30.112-08:00faultlineglobalIBFIPOjens francisventure capitalFor those of you interested in global VC investment trends: It's official: with the VCs these days, the consumer is king.According to Morgan Stanley, 2008 looks like the year, after trailing by a significant margin, that consumer global IP traffic gains parity with business traffic and by 2011 consumer traffic will be three times that of business traffic.VC investing is following (rather, http://faultlinegroup.blogspot.com/2008/07/notes-from-ibf-venture-conference-part.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29406764.post-418989114888786456Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:51:00 +00002008-07-01T13:59:26.950-07:00Per my previous post, here is an interesting article. The second quarter numbers are coming in (or not coming in):U.S. venture-backed IPOs absent in second quarterhttp://faultlinegroup.blogspot.com/2008/07/news-from-ipo-watchers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29406764.post-6727429814036272743Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:13:00 +00002008-12-12T21:36:30.362-08:00faultlineglobalIBFIPOjens francisventure capitalI recently attended the IBF Venture Conference at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco where there was enough information on the global technology markets to sink a battleship and one overarching theme:Global, Global, Global.Wow! I can't say I had no idea, but the numbers I saw were more staggering than I'd expected.Here are the numbers for venture investment growth in mature markets in 2007 (B):http://faultlinegroup.blogspot.com/2008/06/notes-from-ibf-venture-conference.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29406764.post-549358420025138310Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:55:00 +00002008-06-17T13:15:19.546-07:00Pivotal LabsTwitterI hate to do this, but the cat is already out of the bag.http://tinyurl.com/3v5amdOur friends at Pivotal Labs are starting a project this week to stabilize one of the highest profile (and now most infamous) web 2.0 offerings, Twitter (www.twitter.com). It's a perfect example of a company building a wildly viral product, then breaking under the strain.I was in Rob Mee's office, taking a break http://faultlinegroup.blogspot.com/2008/06/pivotal-labs-and-twitter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29406764.post-529215105915645726Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:17:00 +00002008-06-12T14:18:52.679-07:00Let me make it clear up front: I am not one of those rabid Apple Computer or Steve Jobs fans. In fact, if anything, I'm more of a Microsoft apologist. While I was growing up in Alaska, they were the "home team", as it were. I spent my tender years rooting for both Microsoft and (in vain) the Seahawks.This week is the Apple WorldWide Developer's Conference here in San Francisco and you can't http://faultlinegroup.blogspot.com/2008/06/why-iphone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29406764.post-7160990712727852517Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:28:00 +00002008-03-05T16:52:37.549-08:00I hope the Russians love their children too. - Sting 1985Russia has cut off gas to the Ukraine. Lesson: get addicted to Russian oil and expect to be eaten by the Russian bear. Simple stuff. Lesson #2: energy is power.Now here's the good news. The world is aflood with energy, with energy in every imaginable form. Some forms are more expensive than others. We use the cheap stuff first. We http://faultlinegroup.blogspot.com/2008/03/tough-love-russian-style-and-american.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29406764.post-6829576821486948185Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:38:00 +00002007-09-21T07:41:47.816-07:00Gartner continues to be worried about mobile devices in the enterprise. (A little history – Gartner built a franchise on helping corporate IT deal with the “shadow IT” threat PCs represented. So high-capability, networked mobile clients look like the second coming.) From CNET this morning:Virtualization will be a key technology to help companies beef up security on corporate mobile devices, http://faultlinegroup.blogspot.com/2007/09/mobile-security-reality-check.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Miller)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29406764.post-7252540666452169690Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:12:00 +00002007-09-19T07:19:51.528-07:00This is not so cool. Most teachers I know are aware of this site and worried about it. Strikes me as a distraction from more legitimate ways to assess teacher (and student) performance.http://faultlinegroup.blogspot.com/2007/09/technology-in-education-part-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Miller)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29406764.post-5464009402547390405Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:09:00 +00002007-09-19T07:12:44.812-07:00This is cool, although I suspect taking full advantage of technology in schools is less an issue of ideas than of infrastructure. But both help.http://faultlinegroup.blogspot.com/2007/09/technology-in-education-part-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Miller)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29406764.post-2539492462651324209Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:58:00 +00002007-09-19T07:01:09.390-07:00There are many layers to any discussion about building sophisticated mobile applications, but all roads usually lead to the primitiveness of WAP, the cost of data access, and the variability of Java as actually deployed. (I heard yesterday that the cost of porting a J2ME application to various Java implementations was greater than the cost of developing the application in the first place…)The http://faultlinegroup.blogspot.com/2007/09/building-blocks-for-nokia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Scott Miller)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29406764.post-6195939896229209687Tue, 08 May 2007 17:39:00 +00002007-05-08T10:41:04.991-07:00This is a test BLOGhttp://faultlinegroup.blogspot.com/2007/05/testing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1