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Archive for August, 2007



Web 3.0 yeti attack

Published on August 9, 2007

There are only four things I fear in this world:

Bigfoot (Sasquatch for the purists. Yeti for those of you in Asia)
Small places (I’ve got bad claustrophobia)
Cybernetic beings
Zombies

I recently read that Web 3.0 would bring on the age of the semantic web and that true AI would become a reality. Is that really a good idea? [...]


Cramer: “This is Armageddon…the fed is asleep!”

Published on August 6, 2007

Cramer is loud. Cramer is obnoxious. Cramer knows what he’s talking about. I thought we’d be well into the fall when it started to happen but its happening now. It will be interesting to see what the FOMC does on rates tomorrow.


The “salt mines” of Silicon Valley

Published on August 4, 2007

According to this story in the New York Times you are a “nobody” with anything less than $10 million in net worth in Silicon Valley.
“Here, the top 1 percent chases the top one-tenth of 1 percent, and the top one-tenth of 1 percent chases the top one-one-hundredth of 1 percent”
Cry me a river. Anyone got a violin handy?


Who is John Galt?

Published on August 3, 2007

He said he would stop the motor of the world and he did.
Atlas Shrugged is the greatest oration on the struggle of socialism vs capitalism of government vs. private industry of individualism vs. social fairness ever written.
I just finished listening to the book on CD. I’m going to listen to it again. Then I think [...]


The great Web 2.0 bubble debate (or why its time to start thinking about Web 3.0)

Published on August 2, 2007

John Dvorak set off a Web firestorm today when he declared that the Web 2.0 “bubble” is coming and that the end is near. Sometimes TechCrunch writer, Marshall Kirkpatrick and Robert Scoble took Dvorack to task on their respective blogs. Hundreds of other joined in. Ouch.
I thought I would weigh in myself not so much on what [...]




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