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anthony -

i wonder what % of zimbra's paid mailboxes are from the comcast deal? it would be easy for me to believe that comcast could push out 30M email addresses to broadband subscribers.

-m

anthony - nice post - aster data is a really good company with really solid technologists - one thing that's interesting is how they tick both the boxes of cloud computing/distributed systems and traditional enterprise sales model.

that seems like a good way to be both ahead of the curve, and fundamentally grounded.
mat

sorry - meant to comment on the playlist.com post - operator error ;)

max - isn't it that there are a lot of http calls to playlist.com generated from loading myspace and facebook pages with project playlist players on them? That's quite a bit different from some of those other sites that are more of destination sites.

mathew

sorry to hear this, chris - as rahul put it - best to you and yours.
-mathew

your asus plan sounds really cool, chris - i like it - obviously, sux about the theft, of course.

that john batelle quote is so concisely brilliant re: data/stats/context
goes way beyond just purely google/comscore

what is the search-friendly piece? the comments dont look like they show up in the source for this page - is it just that they show up over on disqus?

definitely out-analyzed t.c. on this one ;)

. . . it's just that not as many people talk about organic, word-of-mouth virality because it's a *lot* harder to engineer - remember how viral google was when you first heard about it just because it was so much better than altavista or whatever else you were using to scratch around the internet with.

As I understand it, the point of Bug Labs is more of a development tool/platform - but for hardware - not ultimately meant to be widespread end-user devices - the idea is to let technical people build innovative hardware faster by combining some of their own custom work with other pre-existing modules in interesting and non-obvious ways - just as happens with web development these days. The best combinations could then be distilled down into a non-modular refined version for end users. That's a pretty big idea!
-Mathew Johnson
http://www.blist.com/

The world would be a much less interesting place without Brunonians like AJ Jacobs!!

Great interview subject.

To start a VC firm with a quick and reasonably-sized exit like last.fm right off the bat is fantastic. I have no doubt that Atomico will quickly develop a reputation for being 'smart-money' within the world of vc firms.

btw nice first name - too many people spell it with 2 t's
:)

Advice appreciated: I am thinking about going to see Rilo Kiley at Webster Hall on the 22nd when I am in town from Seattle - but Webster Hall doesn't seem like the nicest venue - definitely not a small, cool club, and I like Rilo Kiley's previous album a lot better than what I've heard of the latest one.

But I still can't decide whether to go while I am in NYC

New CEO blogger, Kevin Merritt of www.blist.com just wrote a pretty great post on entrepreneurship here:

http://www.blist.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/07/...

are you an advocate of a grappling style like gracie jiu-jitsu over a striking style like jkd for self defense?

And, to round out your list: Misbehavior of Markets

http://www.amazon.com/Misbehavior-Markets-Benoit-Mandelbrot/dp/0465043550

this list widgets are really reminding me of the ThisNext ones.


http://mattishness.com

i would not be surprised if madrona participated in this $2M round.

i have 3 or 4 joost tokens that i must give away today:

http://mattishness.blogspot.com/2007/02/interne...