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January 2008 - Posts
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11:57 PM Monday, January 28, 2008
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Not too long ago, a China-based VC told me that nearly all the startups he was seeing were of the “Copy To Asia” or C2A variety. Each pitch inexorably led to the goal of becoming the “Google of China” or “Facebook of China” or “YouTube of China” etc. Read More...
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10:17 PM Monday, January 21, 2008
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21
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As a young techie, it was hard to resist the temptation of looking for space aliens with my PC. And so I became an early adopter of SETI@Home, a project that now counts 3 million users who contribute their spare PC processing power to scanning radio-telescope Read More...
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02:13 AM Tuesday, January 15, 2008
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15
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How do you know if it’s a real human trying to sign up for an account on your website or posting a comment on your blog, or whether it’s simply a software bot leaching your resources? The most common way today is to subject the alleged human to a CAPTCHA Read More...
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09:06 PM Monday, January 07, 2008
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07
Mon
Hackers are constantly trying out new attack vectors. One recent ploy has been to plant links to malware on hijacked or fake blogs that are disguised as holiday e-cards. A variation of this is where unsuspecting users are tricked into downloading malware Read More...
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01:51 AM Saturday, January 05, 2008
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05
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It's taken a while, but my friend Rob Monster has finally lighted up his early stage VC firm's website , with details of his portfolio and investment approach. He is truly a guy with an S on his chest - having made a grand total of 12 investments in the Read More...
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03:00 PM Tuesday, January 01, 2008
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The past few years have been especially unpleasant for publishers of newspapers and purveyors of encyclopedias. What if they could, with minimal effort, translate & index their archives into multiple languages, thus broadening their target audiences Read More...
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