Umberto Eco’s Anti-Library

This is an excerpt from Taleb’s Black Swan, that I thought my readers should think about. “The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encylopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react

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Good SaaS Blogs

We’ve been discussing SaaS at length, and will continue to do so. Here are some other blogs that also offer good perspectives on the topic. Rough Type: Nicholas Carr writes on technology, business, and culture. He writes about the future of computing, especially “utility-computing”, his nomenclature of the SaaS trend. Software As Services: At ZDNet,

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Interdigital: Qualcomm Can Acquire

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author Will Qualcomm acquire Interdigital? This was the question I raised in my last article. I will try to take a quick look at the feasibility of such an event in this part of my series. Interdigital has a market cap of about $1 billion today. The stock closed on Thursday,

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Blog Monetization via Vertical Ad Networks

I have recently signed up to be part of a vertical ad network to be launched in a few weeks by a major business media company. The network is accepting additional blogs and will be using their sales force and advertiser relationships to sell ads on bloggers’ sites that are chosen to be part of

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Interdigital: A Qualcomm Acquisition Target?

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author The genesis of my question is perhaps the synergies that I found hard to ignore between the two companies – The complementary intellectual property (IP) portfolios: The two companies are often in the news due to their legal wranglings. Interdigital recently won a English High Court ruling against Nokia that

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Career Choices

Here’s an interesting essay on career choices that Patrick Curtis from WallStreetOasis forwarded to me … The Next Big Thing. Nugget: It is about who YOU are. Not about what is hot.

Forbes Column 08: The Gap in Google’s Defenses

My Forbes column synthesizing the discussions we’ve had here recently, The Gap in Google’s Defenses.

Deal Radar 2008: TheFind

We profiled Siva Kumar, CEO of TheFind.com, a discovery shopping search engine last year. This is yet another vertical search engine optimized for visual merchandising oriented lifestyle products. In July 2007, TheFind raised $15 million in a third round of funding from Bain Capital Ventures, Ignition, Lightspeed and Redpoint. It had previously raised $11 million

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