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2002 was the 4th-largest year ever for venture investments, even though that represented a decline of 60% over 2001, according Dow Jones Newswire. Last 3 quarters saw an increase in seed and early-stage investments vs. follow-ons.... Comments 3:59:14 PM 
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Is Spring the next GUI for OSX? The Register's Andrew Orlowski thinks so. Spring eschews windows and files and folders for a more free-form system that lets you associate things - like people, places and applications - that make sense to you, rather than the computer. Also been hearing that awesome new Mac hardware is due out in the spring... maybe IBM's new Power chips? Comments 2:08:52 PM
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No sooner did I get a security reminder from Rackspace, the Texas outfit that hosts Ventanis, my company's server, that the holidays alway see a rise in security problems, than my firewall began sending me messages (at 5 minute intervals starting at 4:00 AM) that gulker.com's servers appear to be under a DDoS attack.
Earlier this week, 2 Chinese BBS sites hijacked a photo from The Los Angeles Press Photographers Association whose site is hosted at gulker.com, resulting in 10,000 requests for the photo in a short time frame. Put a big dent in gulker.com's modest 128K connection. It's always something... the firewall's emails alone are a kind of DoS attack... |
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More on Google Webquotes: Anita Rowland writes "Let Aaron Swartz keep you up to date on google-stuff at Google Weblog.... webquotes story broke last week, I think." Thank you, Anita, and you, too, Roger for showing me Googlism... Comments 11:59:28 AM
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A new 'blog: friend Joshua Levy has just started Shua, his blog. Josh is a very talented guy, in my experience, both left- and right-brain. Formerly a webmaster and product manager at Blue Martini, he left Silicon Valley for Hollywood, where, after a stint at film school, he's now working as an editor and sound designer - his blog links to some of his music video creations. I've often admired Josh-designed Web sites: he has a talent for using space in interesting ways... look forward to his dynamic media phase... Comments 11:53:00 AM
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Two venture news items caught my eye this A.M.: Venture Capitalists Put 80% Of Funds In Past Investments, from Dow Jones, and Venture Capital: After "the Perfect Storm" from Business Week. VCs continue to work through the problems: many are cautiously optimistic about next year... Comments 11:30:11 AM
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Google Webquotes: just found this interesting page on Google while researching robot traffic on my blog. It's a search page that finds quotes about whatever name you type in. Is this new or just something I missed...? Comments 7:56:09 AM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 12:13:42 PM
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