Mena Trott, co-founder of SixApart, announced officialy that the company got a $10M funding from August Capital VC. Have a look at the detailed explanations of Mena and the comments of Jeff Clavier here.
An anecdote: David Marquardt, co-founder of August Capital, is Microsoft’s Board member since 1981 (!) and his other company – TVI – was the *only* investor in Microsoft! Good reference :-)
[via Zorgloob – in French]
Google updated yesterday the PageRanks! It’s the first complete GoogleDance since weeks… The last Dances just updated the number of BackLinks without changing the corresponding PR.
All the pages of my website were updated (PR between 4 and 5), as the ones of my blog (PR between 4 and 6).
[via Jeremy Zawodny]
A great article from Rich Skrenta about the “real” competitive advantage Google is building with its very cheap but incredibly powerful hardware platform. A very interesting analysis and point of view!
While competitors are targeting the individual applications Google has deployed, Google is building a massive, general purpose computing platform for web-scale programming.
This computer is running the world’s top search engine, a social networking service, a shopping price comparison engine, a new email service, and a local search/yellow pages engine. What will they do next with the world’s biggest computer and most advanced operating system?
We spent some hours in the Ecomusee today. Really a nice place! They celebrated their 20 years birthday last week-end and their 5’900’000 visitors. Respect!
The sun is setting on the Information Society even before we have fully adjusted to its demands as individuals and as companies. We have lived as hunters and as farmers, we have worked in factories and now we live in an information-based society whose icon is the computer. We stand facing the fifth kind of society: the Dream Society. The Dream Society is emerging this very instant the shape of the future is visible today. Right now is the time for decisions before the major portion of consumer purchases are made for emotional, nonmaterialistic reasons. Future products will have to appeal to our hearts, not to our heads. Now is the time to add emotional value to products and services.
I never, ever thought of myself as a businessman. I was interested in creating things I would be proud of.
Rules of Radical Marketing
Love + Respect Your Customers!
Hire only Passionate Missionaries!
Create a Community of Customers!
Celebrate Craziness!
Be insanely True to the Brand!
The leaders of Great Groups love talent and know where to find it. They revel in the talent of others.
Did We Say “Talent Matters”?
The top software developers are more productive than average software developers not by a factor of 10X or 100X, or even 1,000X, but 10,000X.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
The leader must have infectious optimism. The final test of a leader is the feeling you have when you leave his presence after a conference. Have you a feeling of uplift and confidence?
[via LeDanois via Russell Beattie]
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
-Dante Alighieri
One of the first posts of October for an important topic: I know that the US citizens will choose in about one month. Bush or Kerry? Umh, I am not a US citizen but I am a citizen of this world and I would like to clearly, and without any doubts, vote blog for Kerry! The worst is surely … neutrality!
I already posted two times about that here and specially here. A lot to read in the blogosphere but you could find some clear inputs and statements for Kerry (or against Bush ;-) by LeDanois, Rodrigo, and Dragos.
So let’s express your vote intention too!
