http://scriban.com/movabletype/ written by george scriban en-us 2006-08-28T09:50:14-05:00 2006-08-28T09:57:16-05:00 Google Apps for Your Domain Now you can offer private-labeled email, IM and calendar tools to all of your users for free*, so they can share ideas and get things done more effectively. You can design and publish your organization's website, too. It's all hosted by Google, so there's no... http://scriban.com/movabletype_archives/002441.shtml george 2006-08-28T09:50:14-05:00 Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab Yesterday, Paul left a great comment making fun of 2.0 "strategy" mentioning "viral funpacks". It was pretty hilarious. But also pretty insightful. Why? Because the realization is slowly dawning in the Valley and other assorted 2.0 scenes of the world that "widgets" are the next big thing.... http://scriban.com/movabletype_archives/002438.shtml george 2006-08-27T14:49:44-05:00 Boing Boing: Universities put Hollywood ahead of students On the heels of yesterday's post about USC's lunatic copyright policy, many readers have written in with more examples of copyright lunacy on USC and other campuses, instances in which scholarship is being trumped by a desire to appease the entertainment industry,... http://scriban.com/movabletype_archives/002437.shtml george 2006-08-26T15:19:49-05:00 Schneier on Security: What the Terrorists Want I'd like everyone to take a deep breath and listen for a minute. The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are... http://scriban.com/movabletype_archives/002435.shtml george 2006-08-26T14:41:02-05:00 John Battelle's Searchblog: Fanpop! As they say, "We're a little bit of Digg, MySpace, Yahoo! Groups, del.icio.us and Yelp all mixed into one." Users can create topical federations on just about anything, giving it a resemblance to Tribe's flexibility. With 24 broad 'channels', Fanpop leaves room for communities to cluster... http://scriban.com/movabletype_archives/002431.shtml george 2006-08-25T10:29:32-05:00 EarlyStageVC: Venture 2.0 - Preamble Peter Rip, a partner with early stage venture firm Leapfrog, has started a series on the evolution of the VC world, which he calls VC 2.0. Despite the fact that I'm calling for a moratorium on 2.0-ing things, this is clearly going to be an... http://scriban.com/movabletype_archives/002423.shtml george 2006-08-24T16:44:56-05:00 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) - Limited Beta Well, this is pretty amazing: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) - Limited Beta Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for... http://scriban.com/movabletype_archives/002422.shtml george 2006-08-24T10:10:16-05:00 Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters: Fool Rappin' Coders Now I'm tempted to start throwing down some rhymes myself, like an epic Tone Loc takeoff ("Compiled Thing" b/w "Funky Code Profiler") or my never-written parody of Snoop's "Gz and Hustlas" entitled "Devs and Testers" ("how many bugs in 06 will I... http://scriban.com/movabletype_archives/002421.shtml george 2006-08-24T09:42:08-05:00 CTO Blog | May we live in interesting times! A company's ability to differentiate now resides in the exception-rich business processes that exist between applications, rather than inside the applications themselves. The business has been quick to pick up on this trend, and their focus is shifting to funding capabilities... http://scriban.com/movabletype_archives/002420.shtml george 2006-08-22T15:37:00-05:00 Confused Of Calcutta » Blog Archive » More on Control and Complexity and Big Big is necessary for Complex. But only when Complex itself is necessary. What I worry about is how often Complex is a construct of past hierarchies rather than a genuine need to solve a problem. I've... http://scriban.com/movabletype_archives/002419.shtml george 2006-08-22T15:17:44-05:00 GigaOM -- Cisco Place and Time Shifts With Arroyo The move is yet another part of Cisco's bid to turn itself into a consumer centric company. As you might remember, it has spent over $6 billion and acquired companies like Linksys, KISS Technology and Scientific Atlanta. It has also made... http://scriban.com/movabletype_archives/002417.shtml george 2006-08-22T14:12:54-05:00 Business 2.0: Blogging for big bucks - Aug. 22, 2006 But here's what gives Arrington real distinction: He's pulling in $60,000 in ad revenue every month. That's 10 times what the site was making earlier this year, which was when Arrington, convinced of the potentially monstrous riches ahead, quit his... http://scriban.com/movabletype_archives/002416.shtml george 2006-08-22T13:49:51-05:00 footnoted.org I really can't rave enough about footnoted.org. Quick, well-written pieces that never fail to induce a sense of little-guy-shareholder outrage. Like Nike's $8 million failed experiment in non-Phil-Knight leadership. Or Hertz's new CEO getting drowned in Hertz options while being paid cash for option gains he's forgoing at his... http://scriban.com/movabletype_archives/002412.shtml george 2006-08-16T10:55:15-05:00 ｻ Isn't time to get rid of the pre-paid terror cell (phone)? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com The story describes how such phones are sometimes purchased in large lots and then stripped of their prepurchased air time (which is worth more than the phone) for resale at a profit... http://scriban.com/movabletype_archives/002411.shtml george 2006-08-15T16:13:45-05:00 Schneier on Security: Last Week's Terrorism Arrests None of the airplane security measures implemented because of 9/11 -- no-fly lists, secondary screening, prohibitions against pocket knives and corkscrews -- had anything to do with last week's arrests. And they wouldn't have prevented the planned attacks, had the terrorists not been... http://scriban.com/movabletype_archives/002408.shtml george 2006-08-13T14:07:31-05:00