Blackboard Backpack 2.5 ships today!
It’s finished. Blackboard Backpack 2.5 has been completed. Another project wrapped up. If you’re a student using Blackboard, you got to try out Backpack. It’s cool. Let’s you take your Blackboard courses and put them on your laptop so you can use them without a web connection.
Tim O’Reilly’s Four Big Ideas about Open Source
But as an employee in a software company where VC funding and time to market are almost always required, it’s been hard to see how to truly participate in the new open-source business model.
Facebook generating $1M per week
TechCruch reported on Facebook’s addition of “work” networks to join high school and college social networking. A rumored $1M per week in revenue has to come from their ad support.
“Facebook, which is rumored to be generating about $1m per week in revenue, is now allowing new users from corporate networks to join their social network [...]
Reading into the future of Tech
For the economist, futurist, visionaries out there seeking all truth and knowledge in where technology is heading, I think Tim O’Reilly is on to something big.
O’Reilly is tracking book sales on tech topics and leveraging this data to see the shifts in market interest. Brilliant. Kinda like dah.
The coolest part is that this research is [...]
Facebook takes $25MM … not up for sale
According to Silcon Beat, Facebook isn’t looking for suitors, but instead took $25MM in cash from Greylock Partners, Meritech, Accel Partners, and Peter Thiel, a former chief exec from PayPal. The article reports that David Sze from Greylock said, “is a ‘winner-circle’ company.” Ya…like you wouldn’t say that after dumping cash into Facebook.
I’d agree with [...]
My Google Calendar is up and running
I was fortunate to be online late last night catching up on my Web 2.0 reading. I saw the report posted at 9:00 PM PST from Elinor Mills at CNET and similar announcement by Michael Arrington at TechCrunch that the Google Calendar was live.
I quickly jumped in and created my account. As reported by [...]
WSJ article on Facebook value and potential sale
Looks like Facebook has 100 employess. Bigger than I thought, but still a very small group for a $750M+ acquisition target.
Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that Accel, the VC that placed ~$13M in Facebok thinks there’s “the potential to be worth more than $2 billion, based on economic fundamentals and the value of its [...]
I spent some time on MySpace…they’re cleaning up a bit
I spent some time on MySpace over the weekend. As I was working on a new site for our golf group (www.darksidegolf.com), I needed to visit a buddy’s site to pull down an image he created. It looks like a minor facelift and some improvments. Still found the site to be dog slow and a [...]
$2B for a virtual community of students
The Facebook is a babe in terms of years in business. But man have they cranked up the valuation. Turning down $750M is a big pass, but pocketing an extra $1.25B would be a nice bonus if Steve Rosenbush at BusinessWeek is correct.
I thought Facebook was cool when I first saw it. I was able [...]
Another Ajax replacement for an existing application
I’ve watched Michael Robertson since he started the Lindows business. Now it appears that in addition to his SIP / VoIP stuff, he’s launching a series of Ajax-based applications to replace desktop applications. The first is ajaxWrite.
I was working for an innovative blade server company (Xyterra) in Scottsdale Arizona when I first ran across Lindows. [...]