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Mike Berman, Angel
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Mary Campbell, General Partner,
EDF Ventures (MI) |
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Chris Coburn, Executive
Director,
Cleveland Clinic Foundation Innovations
(OH)
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Richard Fade, Venture Partner,
Ignition Partners (WA) |
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David Goldschmidt, Managing Partner,
Mofet Technology Fund Management (Israel) |
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Robb Hiller,
CEO,
Performance
Solutions (MN) |
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Marianne Hudson, Director,
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (KS) |
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Brad Lehrman, President,
Portage Capital
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Dan Loague, Executive Director,
National Association of Seed and Venture Funds
(OK)
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Monika Vnuk,
PhD - Associate,
Oxford Bioscience Partners (MA) |
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Dennis Anderson, Founder and
Principal,
Andcor (MN) |
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Josh Baltzell, Principal,
St. Paul Venture Capital (MN) |
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Amit Bhargava, Principal,
ECentury Capital (VA) |
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Mary Campbell, General Partner,
EDF Ventures (MI) |
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David F. Dalvey, Partner,
Brightstone Capital (MN)
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Erik Dykema, Principal,
Metapoint Partners (MA) |
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Richard Fade, Venture Partner,
Ignition Partners (WA) |
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Greg Fluet, Analyst,
Sapient Capital (WY) |
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Allison Gage, VP,
LFE Capital (MN) |
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David Goldschmidt, Managing Partner,
Mofet Technology Fund Management (Israel) |
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Charles Gorman, Managing Director,
Cherry Tree Investments (MN)
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John Gustafson, Principal,
Odin Capital Group (NE) |
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David Hanson, Managing Director,
Lynwood Capital (CO) |
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Cathy Harms, Manager,
St. Paul Capital Fund
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John Hayes, Principal,
Cherry Tree (MN) |
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Rob Heimann, Associate,
River Cities Capital Funds (OH)
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Jason Henrichs, Principal,
Rock Maple Ventures (MA) |
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Tom Hiatt, Managing Director,
Centerfield Capital Partners (IN) |
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Jeff Hinck, General Partner,
Crescendo Ventures
(MN) |
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Harlan Jacobs, President,
Genesis Business Centers (MN) |
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David Kim, MD, Associate,
MPM Capital
(CA)
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Brian Kirkbride, Associate,
Highland Capital Partners (MA) |
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Timothy Kraskey,
Managing Director,
YankeeTek Ventures
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Rick Larson, Managing Director,
SJF Ventures (NC) |
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Beau Laskey, Partner,
EDF Ventures (MI) |
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Brad Lehrman, President,
Portage Capital
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Michael Leidesdorff, Principal,
Questmark Partners (MD) |
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Kevin (J.G.) Lim, Managing Partner,
STIC Ventures (CA,
Korea) |
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Shawn Malleus, Director,
Commerce Capital (TN) |
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Sandra Mayasich, Partner,
Prism Capital &
Prism Mezzanine Fund (MN,
IL) |
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Steven Mercil, CEO,
Minnesota Investment Network (MN) |
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Mohamed Nouri, Angel
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AMEX, Inc. (MN) |
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Todd Ortberg, Managing Director,
Coral Capital Management
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Franklin Pass, MD, Managing Director,
Cherry Tree Investments (MN) |
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Manish Patel, Associate,
JMI Equity (MD) |
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Kurt Riegger, Venture Partner,
North Coast Technology Investors (MI) |
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Adam Schatz, Managing Director,
TeknoSeed AB (Sweden) |
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Bipin Shah, Managing Partner,
INC3 Ventures (CA) |
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Jerry Spencer, Associate Director,
AltosBanCorp (MT) |
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Bart Stuck, Managing Director,
Signal Lake Venture Fund (CT) |
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James Thorp, Managing Executive
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AAvin Venture Capital (IA) |
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Jonathan Tsou,
Principal,
Cargill Ventures (MN) |
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Joel Uchenick, General Partner,
Sherbrooke Capital (MA) |
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Monika Vnuk,
PhD - Associate,
Oxford Bioscience Partners (MA) |
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Christopher Volker, Principal,
The
Mercanti Group (MN) |
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Tom Von Kuster, Angel
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AMEX, Inc. (MN) |
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Donna Walsh, Partner,
Odin Capital Group (NE) |
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Larry Wechter, Managing Director & CEO,
Monument Capital Partners (IN) |
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Joan Wurzer,
Investment Manager,
Minnesota Investment Network
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Robert Zieserl, Managing Director,
KB Partners (IL) |
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Definition: "com and .com"
= Telecom, Datacom, IT, Software or Internet
In this Issue:
1.0
Heard on the Net
2.0 Jobs in the "com and .com" Market
3.0 Schedule of Events
4.0 Tidbits
4.1
NetSuds on Tour
4.2
Email Advertising
4.3
NetSuds
CEO Roundtable - Next Roundtables starting in April 2004
4.4
NetSuds CTO
Roundtable
4.5
NetSuds
Executive Search -
www.netsuds.com/search/
4.6 VoIP Happens for Minnesota
Dept. of Labor
4.7 Ripe For An Internet
Solution
4.8 FireFox or Internet
Explorer?
4.9 NanoTech Day at the UofM
4.10 orkut: The eBay of Social Networking
4.11 Citizens For Local Phone Service
4.12 Google Redesigns, Adds New Services
5.0 Facet Technology
6.0
Who’s Taking Responsibility for Results?
7.0 Staffing Software Industry
Consolidation And What to Expect In 2004
8.0 Guest
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1.0 People And Companies On The Move
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information instantly on our web log (blog)! To view, click on
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You can report a change in your job status if you
are moving from or to a company in the "com and .com" markets. Include your
new work contact information, not just your personal contact information.
If you don't want to use the BLOG, send me an email at
onthemove@netsuds.com. I'll publish the information for you.
If you are with a 'company on the move', email
onthemove@netsuds.com to report (1) the formation of a new start-up, (2)
momentum change at an existing start-up, (3) addition of key hires, or (4) a
funding event at a start-up. We do not accept press releases from third
parties. We must hear directly from a company that is ‘on the move’.
You can include a 80 x 100 pixel (width x height) photo in JPG or GIF format.
Why email only to your small email list of
associates when you can post this information on the blog and have 5400+
NetSudsers
view it. To publish to the blog send me an email requesting permission. After you have an
account, you can post to the blog as much as you want. You need only
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Please email:
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* alwaysBEthere -
http://www.alwaysbethere.com/team/
* Alternative Strategy Advisers -
www.asallc.com/careers/
* KARE11 -
http://www.kare11.com/employ/kare-employ.asp
* Digi -
http://www.digi.com/about%20digi/careers/jobs/massachusetts/prdmanembedded.jsp
* GMAC RFC -
https://careers.gmacrfc.com/servlets/iclientservlet/careers/?cmd=start
* HighJump Software -
http://www.highjump.com/careers/opportunities.asp
* St.
Croix Medical -
http://www.stcroixmedical.com/_private/cgi-bin/positions_list.htx
* Sinex Aviation Technologies -
http://www.sinex.com/about/openings.htm
** Systems Consulting Group -
http://www.scg-corp.com/scg/scghome2.nsf/vwDocLkup/Careers~Openings~0?OpenDocument
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Phenomenal Networks -
http://www.phenomenalnetworks.com/Jobs.htm
*** JXE -
http://www.jxeinc.com/jobs.html
Thank you for the support many of you have
shown to the NetSuds recruiting
association with the American Consulting Company. We have developed a
quality and impressive NetSuds candidate database. We always appreciate
the opportunity to discuss how we might help in locating candidates for
your open positions.
If you are a hiring manager, you are
invited to review our process, our commitment to ethical standards and
diversity recruiting, and other areas of interest at:
www.americanconsultingcompany.com.
When you identify yourself as a member of the
NetSuds
association, we will offer you a discounted rate to assist in locating
candidates for your company. And remember, you never pay a fee unless you
hire one of our candidates.
If you are a candidate, visit the
‘Candidate Kit’ at
www.americanconsultingcompany.com.
You will find valuable tools to help in your job search. When you send us
your resume, be sure and mention your association with
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events will be marked "pending" and will be reviewed for content prior to public
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4.0 Tidbits
4.1
NetSuds on Tour
NetSuds loves on-site tours! Email me if you want to show off your company. I can be reached at
matt@netsuds.com.
4.1.1 Independent Natural Resources -
www.inri.us
I visited Independent Natural Resources at their facility in Eden Prairie and
met with CEO Mark Thomas, 952.920.8035,
mark@inri.us. INRI is not your
typical tech company. Their technology is an alternate renewable energy
company. They make products which can be used to generate energy.
Their primary product is the SEADOG pump; a mechanical pump which uses the
energy in ocean waves to pump ocean water ashore to a conventional
hydroelectrical generator.
The SEADOG is not just a paper design. Mark demonstrated the pump in
action; a version which stood about 15-20 feet high. When the SEADOGs are
in actual operation, their bases could be tens of feet in diameter and stand
several stories tall. They are intended to sit in relatively shallow
off-shore waters approximately 1-5 miles from shore. Fields of
dozens or hundreds of SEADOGs are intended in order to generate sufficient
energy to be of commercial use.
Mark is hard at work getting potential customers lined up in California.
The gamut of regulatory issues will be formidable but California state law
mandates the use of alternative energy sources according to Mr. Thomas.
4.2
Email Advertising
The
NetSuds and
MedSuds
email lists reach 7900+. The
NetSuds
email lists are double-opt-in and concentrated on professionals in the
communications, IT and Internet markets. The
MedSuds email lists are
double-opt-in and concentrated on professionals in the medtech, biotech and
life sciences markets. So, rather than spend your
advertising dollars on any other email lists in the Twin Cities, consider the
NetSuds and
MedSuds
lists. Contact
matt@netsuds.com or 612.605.5252. For current ad rates, visit
www.netsuds.com/adrates.htm.
4.3
NetSuds
CEO Roundtable - Next Roundtables starting in January 2004
NetSuds
is opening up another group of CEO Roundtables in June 2004. If you are tech or medtech CEO and want to join us, (the
first session is free), contact
matt@netsuds.com.
A synopsis of the CEO
Roundtable can be found at
www.netsuds.com/ceo/ It is repeated here
as well.
NetSuds
CEO Roundtable
Membership Only CEOs of tech and
medtech companies are allowed to join the
NetSuds
CEO Roundtable. If you are a VP, CxO or President, you are not welcome
unless you also hold the CEO title. Perhaps we will start a CFO, CTO or
COO Roundtable but until then, we are only interested in the top dog, the CEO.
If you are interested in becoming a member, contact
matt@netsuds.com.
Membership is not automatic. There must be an available spot open in the
roundtable. You must have employees. Your company must be
incorporated. Your company must be a tech (communications, IT,
software, Internet) or medtech (medtech, biotech, life sciences) company. You
must pay a yearly fee of $1200 in advance. You may not send substitutes to the
Roundtable.
Roles Unlike the days of knights,
kings and Camelot, there is no king of the
NetSuds
CEO Roundtable; only a facilitator; Matt Noah, CEO of NetSuds.com, Inc.
Knights are replaced by CEOs and the table won't be quite round.
Schedule The Roundtable will meet 10
times per calendar year on the last
Tuesday of every month. Each meeting lasts 2.0 hours starting at 7 am. A facility
convenient to the majority of Roundtable members is used. A continental breakfast
is served.
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Purpose CEOs need resources to
assist them in executing their duties and leading their companies. Boards
of Directors and upper management are not always the best or most independent
resources upon which to draw. The CEO Roundtable exists to provide CEOs
with an independent resource of wisdom and shared experience. Your key
'take-aways' from the Roundtable will be accelerated learning - so as to avoid
common and uncommon pitfalls -, an expanded network of advisors and colleagues
and tools to enhance the productivity and value of your enterprise.
Content First, networking among the
CEO members of a Roundtable is the best and richest content. Second, the
Roundtable facilitator will schedule subject matter experts of interest to the
CEOs. Examples include intellectual property, branding, sales,
engineering, marketing, finance, compensation, human resources, M&A, etc.
Format Meetings will consist
primarily of 2 elements. First, "content" will be presented and discussed.
Second, "discussion" of common problems and solutions will take place. The
facilitator will lead both elements or assign elements to certain CEOs.
Confidentiality Roundtable meetings
are completely confidential. Nothing said in a roundtable discussion,
short of illegal activity, leaves the meeting. This allows each CEO to
feel comfortable discussing issues and subjects he may not feel comfortable
speaking about with others.
4.4
NetSuds CTO Roundtable
The NetSuds
CTO Roundtable is off to a flying start. An introductory
session for the fourth
NetSuds
CTO Roundtable will be held on Wednesday, April 28. If you are a CTO, Chief Scientist, VP of Engineering, CIO or
Technical Director (reporting to one of the VP levels at a large
corporation), please send an email to me at
matt@netsuds.com
to request an invitation to this CTO Roundtable.
4.5
NetSuds
Executive Search
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www.netsuds.com/search/
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4.7 Ripe For An Internet Solution
This database search is just
"asking" for an Internet solution. Can anyone say why we still need to
use the US mail?
http://www.dps.state.mn.us/bca/CJIS/documents/Page-3.html
4.8 FireFox or Internet
Explorer?
From the March 25 InfoWorld email newsletter
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www.infoworld.com. I downloaded FireFox and now use both IE and FireFox. So far,
Firefox is more stable and faster. Browser War Part II.
Firefox fills the IE
void
Microsoft has abandoned IE. So stop complaining and choose a better
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In January 2004,
94.8 percent of Web surfers used Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher,
according to the Web analytics research company OneStat.com. Not me, though.
For many months I’ve been using a Mozilla-based browser that can’t seem to
settle on a name: Phoenix, Firebird, now Firefox. Identity crisis
notwithstanding, it rocks.
Trust me on this — I’m no knee-jerk open source
bigot. During Mozilla’s long nuclear winter, I stuck with IE because I
wasn’t willing to live with compromises. Then the tables turned. Suddenly,
IE was the compromise I could not live with. Bugs didn’t get fixed.
Standards support didn’t improve. New features didn’t appear. And the last
vestige of cross-platform ambition evaporated when IE for the Mac was killed
last year. The message is clear: Internet Explorer is dead in the water.
Ironically, although Microsoft cited competition with Apple’s Safari as the
reason for killing IE for the Mac, I’ve abandoned Safari on OS X for the
same reason I’ve abandoned IE on Windows. Firefox does more, it’s moving
faster, and — here’s the kicker — it runs identically on Windows, OS X, and
Linux.
On each of these platforms, I enjoy a state-of-the-art end-user experience.
Tabbed browsing, search plug-ins, and pop-up blocking are the headline
features. But there are wonderful small touches, too. My favorite is “Find
as You Type,” a built-in incremental search that finds text on the current
page as soon as you start typing it.
I’ve also come to rely on a bevy of features for power users and developers.
The LiveHTTPHeaders extension, which opens a window onto the HTTP protocol,
is an invaluable aid to integration chores. The DOM Inspector, now included
in Firefox, reveals the internal HTML, CSS, and JavaScript structure of a
Web page. Using Firefox’s XML capabilities, I’ve built browser-based
applications that fetch, transform, and search XML payloads.
During Mozilla’s tortuous years of incubation, the
project’s goals were contentiously debated. Some wanted to focus on
producing a fast, reliable, standards-compliant browser. Others sought to
create a cross-platform toolkit for rich Internet applications. The first
goal has been achieved, and the second is within reach — a fact that
Microsoft (and others) would rather you didn’t notice.
The future of “great Windows applications,” we’re told, lies with Longhorn’s
next-generation presentation subsystem, Avalon, which will reboot software
development sometime in the latter half of this decade. Of course, even
Microsoft can’t wait until then. Consider InfoPath. It’s a great Windows
application and a rich Internet client that had to ship in 2003. Its
foundation is none other than Internet Explorer — or rather, the suite of
components and Internet standards on which Internet Explorer depends. Could
InfoPath have been built on a Mozilla foundation instead? You bet. And the
result wouldn’t just be a great Windows application. It would be a great
application, period.
As a development platform, Mozilla’s reach still exceeds its grasp. Its XUL
(XML User-interface Language) technology, for example, isn’t as polished as
the Macromedia Flex markup language or Avalon’s XAML (Extensible Application
Markup Language).
IE is arguably good enough for the 95 percent who continue to use it for
basic browsing. But browser-based rich Internet software isn’t nearly as
good as it could be. If you build it, they will come.
Jon Udell is lead analyst of the InfoWorld Test Center.
4.9
NanoTech Day at the UofM
Are you a legitimate angel investor, investment banker or venture
capitalist? A technologist with technical interests in nanotechnology?
If you are a member of either of these two interest groups, the UofM has a
free program to introduce you to nanotechnology research at the UofM.
Date: May 14, 2004
Where: UofM Walter Library
What: 8 am, Technical sessions conducted by the 32
faculty members working on nanotechnology
What: 1 pm, Investment Community Workshop for investors
only conducted by select nanotechnology faculty.
What: 4 pm, Tours of nanotechnology facilities on campus
What: 5 pm, Reception for all involved in any of the
above.
How: RSVP to Marie at
marie007@umn.edu.
If you have any questions, contact Dick Sommerstad at
612.625.8352.
4.10 orkut: The eBay of Social Networking
From
NetSudser
Jeff Pulver -
jeff@pulver.com.
I first discovered
orkut
in early February and it took me a couple of weeks to warm up to
it...mostly because of the fact that I've been so busy, going to
another website to engage in "social networking" was not high on
my priority list.
But as I started to explore orkut and started to observe its growing
feature set, I realized that in some ways, orkut, could turn out to be: "the
eBay of Social Networking."
At the moment, the orkut network is closed. When you click on the link on
their home page 'join orkut' you get to a page which says: "orkut is unique,
because it's an organically growing network of trusted friends. That way we
won't grow too large, too quickly and everyone will have at least one person
to vouch for them."
While I enjoy using LinkedIn for some of my business social networking, I
find myself doing "community development" using orkut. One has to be careful
using orkut, as if you build your network too fast, you may be "orkut'ed"
and have your account suspended. To date this has happened to me twice for
reasons which I don't understand, but thanks to Orkut Buyukkokten, my
account was quickly restored.
If you are already on orkut, you are invited to join two communities
which I'm currently supporting - Free World Dialup, <http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=12029>
and pulver.com <http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=27240>.
As a reader of the Pulver Report, if you are not already a member of
orkut and if you would like to give orkut a try, please send email to:
jeffp@pulver.com
with the subject: "orkut invite" and when I have a chance, I will send an
invite.
4.11 Citizens For Local Phone Service
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:
Dennis Egan
March 3,
2004
612-325-1330
St. Paul, MN – Consumers and telephone
competition received a major setback in the wake of a federal circuit court
decision to overturn the Federal Communications Commissions’ rules to
promote telephone competition, according to Citizens For Local Phone
Choice.
“The DC Circuit court sided with the telephone
monopolies and essentially turned its back on competition and consumers
nationwide,” said Dennis Egan, executive director of Citizens For Local
Phone Choice. “The decision to free telephone giants like Qwest from their
legal obligation to share the public telephone network with competitors is a
serious disappointment.”
More than 17 million Americans have the benefit of
competition under the existing FCC rules, according to Egan. Recent studies
show that consumers nationwide save $10 billion a year in lower phones bills
because of competition. Small businesses saved $4.4 billion in 2003 from
expanded competition. These savings could skyrocket to more than $6 billion
if policymakers maintain policies necessary to sustain competition.
“Now, those savings and the benefits of competition are
in jeopardy because the court chose Telephone Giants over consumer
interests,” he said. “We can all expect to see higher phone bills if
fledging competition dwindles out completely.”
An appeal to the Supreme Court is expected to uphold
the FCC rules to promote competition.
Citizens for Local Phone Choice is a consumer advocacy
group whose mission is to facilitate research, develop and exchange data and
information involving local telecommunications options in the state of
Minnesota. The coalition’s members include business owners and consumers
statewide. The coalition has participated in several public forums and has
had numerous interceptions with both state legislative and congressional
candidates and members. Further, CLPC has built successful relationships
with key influencers statewide.
4.12 Google Redesigns, Adds New Services From
Ziff-Davis' What's New Now - www.ziffdavis.com I'm not a huge fan of
Google's redesign -- I think it blurs the lines between real search results
and sponsored links. The upside to the shake-up, however, is two new
projects from Google Labs. What's Google Labs? Apparently, each engineer
over there has to spend a day or so a week on some personal "project," to
advance search. Google's search bar, the e-commerce search capability tool "Froogle,"
and other strokes of genius all came from the Labs' pet projects. Well, now
there are two cool new services to help you customize and get more out of
Google. Our story shows what they do and explains how they can help.
Cool New Google Tools:
http://eletters.wnn.ziffdavis.com/zd1/cts?d=75-154-1-1-527686-7351-1
5.0 Facet Technology
Google is a noun, a verb, a website and a company. One hardly thinks twice
about using Google to perform a web search; at least a text-based web search.
Have you ever wanted to find an image using a text-based search engine? Try
it. Try to find an image of a football by typing in "football image" in to
Google. I'll wait here while you examine the results.
Performing image searches using text and text-based search engines is
hit-and-miss. "Football image" didn't work very well in Google. Try "Shroud of
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