Yahoo! Messenger Click on this link to open a Java version of Messenger.#
Monday, February 26
The Simple, Easy Guide to Making Your News Page an RSS Channel This was David Galbraith's idea, about a year ago, to embed semantic structure within html pages. Blindingly simple: amazing no one has done it till now. David should have written a white paper.#
The new slackers Salon finds Skye Ketonen (ex-LinkExchange) and others that just hang around after leaving their internet boom jobs.#
Microsoft's Belluzzo bombshell So is Beluzzo, recently promoted to president at Microsoft, such a great manager? His record at Silicon Graphics was inconclusive. But Ballmer at Microsoft obviously rates him.#
Burn Rate Excerpts from Michael Wolff's book, more relevant now than ever.#
I Want Media - Media People: Michael Wolff What do you think is the long-term prognosis for content sites like iVillage, Salon and TheStreet.com? Wolff: "I think it's dead. I think it's over with; it's gone. There is no long-term prognosis. The patient has died. There is no future." #
The Web: Where Gossip Is Keen "Ford's rise is only one example of gossip's increasing importance online. Industries from fashion to media to music to technology to bodybuilding all have their online rumor mills. Even straight-laced, mainstream news sites, including CNN.com, are trumpeting saucy gossip columns."#
Autonomy: Software star's party is over After a period where it could do no wrong, Caroline Daniel looks at how the group is tackling some hard questions. Financial Times#
Washington Post: Old News? Howard Kurtz reheats that old chestnut, the eternal battle for profitability and credibility between Salon and Slate, the two leading online magazines.#
New York Post: The stink of failure is in the air Chris Nolan, taking her lead from InsiderVC.com, airs the story about the returns on Benchmark III. Benchmark's giant-sized partners such as Bob Kagle and Bill Gurley, were heroes in 1999. Now competitors and commentators are bringing them down to size, and enjoying themselves.#
FORTUNE.com: Adults on Board A profile of Atomz, with a rather unkind comparison of its management team with Blogger's.#
FORTUNE.com: Behind the VC Music Stephen Lisson's InsiderVC.com is doing for the venture capital industry what Drudge did for Clinton. Like Drudge, Lisson is unpopular and erratic. Like Drudge, he sometimes roots out truths more scrupulous reporters miss.#
eCompany Now - Bonehead Safari Ralph King, in search of the dumbest VC, doorsteps Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad. Do reporters have no respect for venture capitalists any more?#
eCompany Now - Death Valley Marc Gimein on the disappearing dotcoms. 'I asked him where I could reach Jean-Bernard. "I hope," the press officer said, "he's sailing off Baja California. He's been planning to do that for a long time." In other words, gone fishing.' #
Inside: Josh Harris in flame wars with ex-girlfriend "Go call your little buddy," she wrote, "get some whores and have a good time. Maybe you can get it up for them." "What's next Tanya?" he replied. "A book? A movie with Gwyneth Paltrow? It wasn't like you were writing before we got together."#
New York Observer on We live in public Josh Harris' girlfriend, having lived under the webcam with the Jupiter and Pseudo founder, exposes the story in print. Harris sounds desperate.#
Matt Welch: My Time in the DEN of Iniquity Greatest hits of 2000: Welch's OJR expose last year of DEN's collapse, including Ferraris, sex (alleged) with teenage boys, and the incineration of gigantic amounts of venture capital.#
Fortune: Why Is Bill Gross Still Smiling? A long time in the making, Joseph Nocera's profile of the Idealab founder will define him for ever. A fount of ideas, a "stupendously" bad manager. He sounds like the worst of dotcom CEOs, a personality type that flowered in 1998-99, but relegated to consultancy and the margins in more normal economic times.#
Amazon Board Member, In a Fury, Tried to Suppress Lehman Report It takes a New York publication to shine a little probing light on John Doerr, Silicon Valley's haloed venture capitalist. Doerr tried to dilute a negative research report by Suria, the convertible bond analyst.#
TheStandard.com: George Boutros Likes It Rough A profile of CSFB's tech dealmaker, a perfect profile as the action shifts from IPOs to M&A. Revelation: Boutros is unpleasant. Nastiest spin: from a competitor who says Boutros' aggression makes him easier to play.#
Fighting a Losing Battelle? John Battelle, founder and CEO of the Industry Standard, as dotcom executive. Once on top of the world, now shamed in print, victim of an impatient board, pretending that his elevation was always planned. Yeah, right.#
Moby: Everloving Okay, I know Moby is overexposed, but I never get tired of Everloving.#
Moreover.com Rated Top Business News Aggregator "The Moreover.com Web site has come out on top in an evaluation of breaking news Web sites, conducted by The Information Advisor, the international monthly publication for professional researchers."#
AirWave A commercial service providing wireless internet access in Bay Area locations such as Buck's in Woodside. Useful for pitching to VCs, I guess.#
A Wireless Format Takes Hold Mentions airlines, coffee shops and hotels which are putting in place 802.11b wireless hotspots.#
ZDNet: A Tangled, Wireless Web Trails a product from 2Wire which takes a DSL connection and outputs in the 802.11 frequency, allowing instant high-speed wireless connectivity. I want it now.#
Atomz: Express Search This is what I'll use to search through the Blogger site I'm building. Atomz is a very interesting company. In principle, it could become a nimble competitor to Kinecta and other heavyweight syndication software companies.#
JetBlue saved me the other day when Northwest wanted to charge $1,400 for a one-way last-minute flight to San Francisco from New York. JetBlue charges about $240, and doesn't rip you off in you're flying at late notice.#
Listen.com: artists like Kid Loco Listen.com's 'discover similar artists' feature is the best way to surf aimlessly but fruitfully for music. I only wish this functionality were built into Napster. I never download tunes from Listen, but I do use it as a directory.#
