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Scraping and Stealing?

Sunday, March 26th, 2006
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I have posted an essay on my personal blog covering this weekends controversy about scraping and stealing content. »

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edgeio launches at PC Forum

Monday, March 13th, 2006
Written by: Keith Teare on

Although there has been significant discussion on the web about edgeio for several weeks, the company had not formally launched until today. edgeio has formally launched the company at PC Forum in Carlsbad. There is a post on the edgeio blog with a 2 minute video clip of the infomercial that preceeded the formal... »

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EasyNet bought by BSkyB

Monday, November 21st, 2005
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EasyNet bought by BSkyB

I have been meaning to post on this for a while and didn’t do so because I wanted to wait for the dust to settle. This seems like a good time. My old company Easynet has been acquired by BSkyB for something around $375m. I was co-founder of the company, in 1994, with my... »

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Google launches Dbase, circa 1985, but with less functionality

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
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Google launches Dbase, circa 1985, but with less functionality

Google launched GoogleBase last night. What a disappointment. Whilst Google Reader clearly points to somebody at Google “getting” the importance of edge published content and real-time indexing, GoogleBase is a throw back. Basically a dumb flat-file database system for the world to throw content into. It’s actually embarrasing for the whole of Silicon... »

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Mike Arrington launches CrunchNotes

Friday, October 28th, 2005
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Mike Arrington launches CrunchNotes

Mike Arrington, editor of TechCrunch and a partner in Archimedes Ventures, has launched a second blog – CrunchNotes. In Mikes words: So, why am I starting CrunchNotes? The main reason is that I find that sometimes, I want to talk about more than just new companies and products. Sometimes I have something to say about what’s... »

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Weblogs.com sold to VeriSign

Friday, October 7th, 2005
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Weblogs.com sold to VeriSign

It was confirmed today that Dave Winer’s weblogs.com has sold its assets to VeriSign. The price has not been officially disclosed but the blogosphere has very efficiently decided the range ($2-5m). Dave has posted his story and his response to the reactions. Michael Graves – a great guy and heading up the technology side of... »

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Microsoft’s Reorganization and Web 2.0

Sunday, September 25th, 2005
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Microsoft’s Reorganization and Web 2.0

Microsoft announced a major reorganization this week. the crux of the reorg seems to be that the MSN and Windows divisions are being unified, and as part of this Jim Allchin is retiring. A new “Platform Products and Services Division” is the result. It will be led by Kevin Johnson once Allchin retires. There will... »

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Archimedes launches to focus on Web 2.0 opportunities

Friday, August 26th, 2005
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Archimedes launches to focus on Web 2.0 opportunities

Archimedes LLC is a partnership specializing in the development of companies focused on Web 2.0 technologies and solutions. We are looking to develop companies that take advantage of the way Web 2.0 has changed the architecture of the Internet from a passive publish and read web into a two way web. These... »

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