Year: 2005

  • VeriSign-ICANN Proposed Settlement discussed in Vancouver

    Unfortunately I cannot be in Vancouver for the conference. I write this from Cape Town, venue of last years fall ICANN. I want to disclose a couple of things upfront. Those who know me will know I am nothing if not strongly independent in my views. However disclosure helps those of a more suspicious mind…

  • Easynet acquired by BSkyB

    I have been meaning to post on this for a while and didn’t do so because I wanted to wait for the dust to settle. This seems like a good time. My old company Easynet has been acquired by BSkyB for something around $375m. I was co-founder of the company, in 1994, with my friend…

  • Cape Town

    I take the family to Cape Town each year around Thanksgiving. We have a home here – in St James, overlooking the Indian Ocean. My Wife, Gené is South African and the children’s grandparents and an Aunt live here. This year is no exception and we set off on Saturday morning at 5.30am. We arrived…

  • Beattie on RealNames

    Russell Beattie ay Yahoo has a lengthy post about RealNames. It’s a generous and thoughtful piece. Thanks for the link Russell. There are a couple of things worth knowing. Firstly RealNames didn’t really crash in the bubble. At least not directly. We were profitable and growing fast (about 120% a quarter back in Q1 2002.…

  • Google launched Dbase, circa 1985, but with less functionality.

    Google launched GoogleBase last night. What a disappointment. Whilst Google Reader clearly points to somebody at Google “getting” the importance of edge published content and real-time indexing, GoogleBase is a throw back. Basically a dumb flat-file database system for the world to throw content into. It’s actually embarrasing for the whole of Silicon Valley. I…

  • Microsoft announcing “Live” software and http://www.live.com is live

    A website – http://www.live.com – just went live. Bill Gates is keynoting and Mike Arrington, Dave Winer and Dan Farber are blogging. I was just messing about and tried live.com. Wow! I think Microsoft is about to launch live.com as an MSN replacement? Check it out.. Later.. not an MSN replacement. A complementary service. Ad…

  • Updated Blog URL, theme and software

    I have consolidated www.teare.com and www.teare.com into a single site. I want to post to here more often and I never change the old static site at www.teare.com, so it makes sense to turn the entire thing into a weblog that I can update more regularly. All of the archives from www.teare.com are here and…

  • Brits and Americans

    Stowe Boyd Has a post on the difference between the UK and the US when it comes to entrepreneurialism. He was responding to a post by Tom Coates called “Where are all the UK startups?”. Boyd ends with a point that entirely fits with my experience: Coates suggests there is an antipathy in Britain between…

  • An Awesome web 2.0 post

    Fred Wilson has an awesome post covering what is novel and new about web 2.0. Posting, subscribing and tagging are all discussed. Fred’s views mirror entirely what Mike and myself are discussing at Archimedes Ventures, and a little in public at TechCrunch. We have also experimented a little at EarningsCast. Try a search for the…

  • Google adds RSS to Personalized homepage

    This is a screen dump of my Google personalized home page. Note the Techcrunch and Earningscast modules on the top right. These are the result of adding their respective RSS feeds to Google. Cool!