Archive for June, 2007

Joost Getting a New CEO, Mike Volpi Former Cisco Guy

Ever heard of Mike Volpi? Not found in wikipedia? Stanford’s Volpi Bio says the guy is aggressive capable of carrying out aggressive acquisitions: “The 30-year-old vice-president of business development is Cisco’s point man for its aggressive program of acquisitions … Since joining Cisco three years ago, Volpi has led or helped steer 23 such deals, […]

Marc Andreessen on How to Maximize Personal Productivity

Here are Marc’s main points, the full version is on his newly (June 2007) launched blog. There are only a few blog posts yet, and this one is a real marathon essay (the length is not very bloggish, but, luckily, there are really funny parts to make the text airy)
Maximizing personal productivity or GTD […]

From the Bookshelf: Malcolm Cowley: The View from 80

As we are preparing to leave Budapest, Hungary for New Orleans, USA, there are hundreds of books to pack away, give away, even sell. One of the books that I picked out of the huge pile was written by Malcolm Cowley, and in fact it is rather a booklet on what being 80 years old […]

VideoJug the Online ‘How to’ Video Search Engine - Getting into Vertical

Great idea, my only consolation is that I was also thinking of starting a DIY video search engine, but we were only at the discussion phase. More and more of them are appearing on the market, like eHow, or ViewDo, TeacherTube, ExpertVillage, and now VideoJug. VideoJug has been dubbed the best of its type (online […]