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Over the last two years, our portfolio company Adaptive Blue has become known for its ability to automatically recognize things like books, movies, stocks, and wines on the web. By using semantic analysis to figure out the difference between The [...]  Read more

Yesterday the New York Times ran an Op-Ed piece that led with the collapse of the effort to create a hand-held device for managing the 2010 census. The latest problem is the Census Bureau’s failure— after nearly four years and [...]  Read more

Google has unveiled App Engine and unlike some other recent Google efforts this one feels fully baked and well thought-out. For starters it includes all the elements that I had identified in my post calling for a new platform, such [...]  Read more

Access to financial markets is fairly open. All it takes is a bit of money to set up a brokerage account and one can start buying stocks. Over the last decade the Internet has further opened up access by letting [...]  Read more

There was a brief period of time around 1999/2000 when it seemed that B2B marketplaces would rule the world of commerce, but then most of them collapsed. Just go to the URLs for three of the big names from back [...]  Read more

We are in the middle of a disruptive change in the media landscape brought on by two-way interactive media. No longer do we simply rely on the New York Times for national news, Dow Jones or Bloomberg for business news, [...]  Read more