Due DiligenceTim Oren's notes and opinions on technology, venture investing, Silicon Valley, life, the universe and everything.Due Diligence has moved!- September 23, 2004 The Due Diligence blog has moved to Typepad. Please check it out and update your bookmarks andor feed. You should be transferred there in 10, 9, 8...http://www.pacificavc.com/blog/2004/09/22.html#a688 Dissecting the Media: Trust and Transactions- September 17, 2004 Due Diligence has moved. The original of this post is here. Please update your bookmarks and subscriptions.http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2004/09/dissecting_the_.html Dubious Distinction: CBS News- September 16, 2004 Due Diligence has moved. The original of this post is here. Please update your bookmarks and subscriptions.http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2004/09/dubious_distinc.html Be Careful What You Wish For: Open Source and Off-Shoring- September 16, 2004 Due Diligence has moved. The original of this post is here. Please update your bookmarks and subscriptions.http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2004/09/be_careful_what.html The Year Three: Fault Lines- September 13, 2004 Due Diligence has moved. The original of this post is here. Please update your bookmarks and subscriptions.http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2004/09/the_year_three_.html Smart Mobs: Swarm Intelligence Takes On CBS- September 11, 2004 Due Diligence has moved. The original of this post is here. Please update your bookmarks and subscriptions.http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2004/09/smart_mobs_swar.html It's Moving Day!!- September 10, 2004 I've been getting up my courage procrastinating working on this for a few weeks, but today is the day! Due Diligence is on the move to a spiffy new Typepad blog. Most of the archive of this site has also been moved, though not yet thoroughly checked for broken links, etc. This will be the last regular post on the pacificafund.com domain, though I will continue to post titles only, with links to the article on the new site, for a couple of weeks, in part to alert the apparent majority who...http://due-diligence.typepad.com Props to the Merc- September 9, 2004 When I write about the SJ Merc it's usually to thrash them for a piece of inane 'analysis'. But, fair is fair, so I will point out that yesterday's column by Michael Bazeley is an accurate, succinct look at the emerging idea of tracking buzz and influencer via blogs. How did he do it Well, half the sources cited are bloggers...http://www.pacificavc.com/blog/2004/09/09.html#a681 Connecting the Bots- September 8, 2004 In previous posts I've talked about the confluence of imperatives that will drive robotics in the coming decade: defense, and aging populations. This post accumulates a few links to data supporting this point of view. Note that I'm appropriating and using the robotbot concept in a way that may or may not be common to readers. I am not talking about Star Wars droids, Blade Runner replicants or I, Robot humanoids. I'm talking about something more limited here, a little closer to the remote..http://www.pacificavc.com/blog/2004/09/08.html#a680 WiMax plus 800 Pound Gorilla =- September 8, 2004 Intel is now sampling its first WiMax (802.16) chip. Volume shipment expected first half next year, I believe. Not that Intel has been making any particular secret of its intent. So the wave is now in sight of the beach. I'm hearing whisper numbers for CPE plus amortized base station expenses of $200 - 300. That's down to the range where prior experience in the bad old modem days suggests that end users will actually pay for the equipment. But if that doesn't happen, who will capitalize...http://www.pacificavc.com/blog/2004/09/08.html#a679 |