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Browsing the website for the Web 2.0 Summit coming up in October, I tripped across the Launch Pad portion. The introduction says, in part
While it’s great to be chosen to launch your new company at a conference like Web 2.0 Summit, the reality of the market is that the majority of successful Web 2.0 [...]

As a youngster, I did the things normal youngsters would do. I went to school, church, camp, scout meetings. At all of these places, if I did what was expected, many times I’d get a gold foil star.
When you’re very young, the gold foil star itself is the reward. Do something good, [...]

Today Ning crossed the dad threshold. This is the point in time when someone like your dad might actually cross paths with the work you (or your friends) do.
Without you having to say “hey dad, look at this”.
I’ve personally never crossed this point with my own father. He has a rough idea of [...]

Google decided to plonk down a $600 million dollar data-center in Lenoir, North Carolina.
You know Lenoir, it’s right north of Hickory. Oh, you don’t know Lenoir? It’s been in the news lately, mostly with folks whinging about how Google, with its billions of dollars in market capitalization, is getting a pretty sweet [...]