Should the embedded player not work on your feed, watch the video here. It is … “priceless”. 
Archives for October 2006
Indecent Proposal
Posted on October 1, 2006 ·
Windows Vista Value Analysis
Posted on October 1, 2006 ·
You gotta love this bottom-up value analysis of Windows Vista. It is based on a “feature-by-feature analysis of how much the upgrades are worth to the user.“
The final tally: $133.
“Unfortunately, to get all of these features, you’ll need to fork over $400 for Vista Ultimate Edition, a full three times what the OS is really worth. Better news: The upgrade is $260 (not $360 as previously reported), which puts us a little more in the ballpark, but still twice what it’s really worth.”
Oh, well, I know I won’t get Vista until it’s time to buy a new laptop….
Google’s Costly Garage
Posted on October 1, 2006 ·
Google purchased the 1,900 sq.ft. home in Menlo Park where founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented a garage eight years ago to start the business. The rent back then was $1,700 a month. Yes, you read it right, $1,700, and it’s not the entire home, just the garage!
In comparison, HP co-founder William Hewlett rented the garage where HP was started for $45 per month.
Only in California ….
Sleeper Blog Awakening: Burnham’s Beat
Posted on October 1, 2006 ·
A long-forgotten, dormant blog came back to life today: Burnham’s Beat. Bill Burnham explains his long silence: it was due to his lawyers’ advice while setting up his new hedge fund, Inductive Capital. He’s back online and plans to blog on.
Burnham’s Beat was one of my early picks as a favorite blog: Bill did not post every day, but quite regularly on software, startup, VC subjects, and whenever he did, it was worth reading. Here are a few of his “golden oldies”, in no particular order:
For the Love of God People, Enterprise Software Is Not Dead
Software’s Top 10 2005 Trends: #3 Software As A Service
Is Open Source Becoming Over-Sourced?
Honey I Bought The Wrong Company!
Back when Burnham’s Beat was still alive there was a good conversation on Dead Blogs Walking, the essence of which was:
“So I say this to these bloggers, treat your blog like a startup – don’t let your labor of love become labor of lame. Update more frequently or shut it down completely.”
The return of Burnham’s Beat proves the above wrong. I could easily list several other blogs, that for some reason or other are dormant:
- Mayfield VC Allen Morgan’s Ten Commandments, in fact his entire blog should be mandatory reading for startup Founders, but it’s been in radio silence since January 2006.
- Joe Kraus’s It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur has become a classic with 167 comments and 107 trackbacks, and is being quoted at numerous panel discussions – yet his last post was more than a year ago.
The list could go on … are these dead blogs? Who knows… I’m not about to “delete” them. The key is to use a feed reader that has the capability of displaying only the blogs with new posts. You can have hundreds of dormant blogs in your opml, they don’t waste space, don’t consume resources, won’t clobber yor screen. The are sleepers. Some of them will wake up, and when they do, they are worth reading again.
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