January 31, 2005
The $100 laptop.
. .
Nicholas Negroponte, the technology guru from the MIT Media Laboratory, prowled
the halls of the World Economic Forum last week holding the holy grail for
crossing the digital divide: a mock-up of a $100 laptop computer.
While I agree with BillG that people in those countries need food, medical care
and shelter first, this looks like a great idea as well.
Pasted from <http://news.com.com/Tech+guru+pitches+cheap+PC/2100-1003_3-5556823.html?tag=nefd.top>
Two stage
startups. . .3. . .2. . .1. . .Money?
An old colleague of mine from back in the Digital Research days, Tim Oren, is
now a venture capitalist and observes that software startups are now returning
to their roots as a two-stage proposition. First stage: Build something people
want! Second stage: Get money. What a different world is now than it was in
1998! Not to sound like an old-skooler but that's exactly how we did it in the
70's and 80's and many of us actually made money instead of just spending it on
sock puppet advertising. The only downside of Tim's piece is that he says
everyone's doing it on the LAMP stack. Perhaps we at Microsoft need to consider
a package of tools for first-stage ventures that are paid for when you make your
first sale.
Podcast of the
day:
MVB Radio Podcast
This podcast is from the My Virtual Band website where musicians collaborate in
composing multi-track songs over the web.
I'm about to start posting some tracks of my own and can't wait to see what
happens.
Manic Minute Recommendation: Rock On!
And that's your manic minute for January 31st, 2005
7:16:00 AM 
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