Monday, April 09, 2007

Enter The Titans: AMD Smacked By Intel


Intel did not see AMD coming, Intel got hit last year. The pendulum has swung. AMD did not see Intel coming in the second round, which is now. This clash of the titans has generated quite some flurry, and is a harbinger of things to come in the larger industry: prices on chips are going down. The consumer wins. The market corrects itself. AMD swung into action. Cost cutting is on the block. The market rewarded AMD for it. Its stock price actually went up on the bad news of lower than projected revenue.

This is the market in action. It is dazzling to watch.

A big company can stay crisp, like Intel has in this case. The small company can be agile, nimble, reflexive, smart, but it serves to be wise. Be ready for the big leagues if you decide to hit. Prepare. Plan. Take the plunge.

This is warfare. This is an ecosystem. Some animals are food.

AMD's cost cutting is not to be in its innovation efforts, so I am sure there will be another round. AMD will swing back perhaps.

If prices on chips go down, you are looking at cheaper PCs. Cheap PCs are a good to great idea.

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In The News

Intel Introduces New Quad-Core Xeons CIO Today the L5320 and L5310 require as much as 60 percent less power than the company's existing 80-watt and 120-watt quad-core server products. ...... The L5320, at 1.86 GHz, and the L5310, at 1.60 GHz, both feature 8 MB of Level 2 cache and can run over a 1,066-MHz front side bus. ..... greater performance and a "dramatic reduction in power consumption" ...... "power and heat becomes a real infrastructure problem -- not just a problem for the I.T. guys, but for the building managers." ..... the lower-powered Xeons are expected to be available worldwide in new servers from Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, Verari, Samsung, Wipro, Acer, HCL, Digital Henge, and IBM, as well as the announced servers from Rackable Systems.
IDC Report: Virtualization Cannibalizes Server Sales IDC predicted that server and component vendors will rally around quad-core technology, then move ahead to octi-core chips.
Blu-ray Promoter Foresees Victory in DVD Format Battle "Within three years it will just be Blu-ray." ... Blu-ray's will completely replace the widely popular current DVD standard by 2010. .... the videotape battle between VHS and Betamax. Sony lost that battle, but is having much greater success with Blu-ray. ..... In mid-February, when the Oscar-winning film "The Departed" was released in both formats, the Blu-ray version sold 20,000 copies to the HD DVD's 13,000.
AMD forced into cutbacks as it falls prey to Intel's cheaper chips Independent
AMD lowers revenue outlook CNNMoney.com
AMD cuts forecast; to slash costs MarketWatch
AMD plans overhaul after disappointing first quarter performance Canada.com, Canada
AMD pays the price for awakening Intel Goliath EETimes.com Advanced Micro Devices is paying the price of moving from the sidelines to front and center on Intel's radar. ..... a two-pronged attack by Intel, including strong products and price cuts ...... lower average selling prices and unit sales ..... no mention of a reduction in research and development ...... Through most of last year, AMD grabbed market share from Intel by selling a higher-performing server chip that took the larger rival off guard. Drawn by its better price-performance ratio, companies couldn't get enough of the Opteron, which was key to AMD soaring to eighth place in the microprocessor market last year from 15th in 2005 ......... "Intel was ignoring AMD for a long time, and they paid the price" ....... Intel came back strong, cutting prices and closing the performance gap with Core 2 Duo chips for desktops and notebooks, and its Xeon 5100 series for servers. ...... should lead to lower prices for servers and PCs. .....AMD has outsourced more manufacturing from Chartered Semiconductors ......... Microsoft's new Windows operating system isn't expected to significantly boost PC sales ...... AMD's plan to integrate graphics and core processors in one chip is expected to simplify notebook motherboards, which should lower the price of the hardware ...... scheduled to ship in 2009 ..... "They were caught a little bit off guard by Intel. I don't think AMD expected them to be as effective as they are." ...... AMD no longer has a technical advantage. ..... "They have to prove that they can take Intel head on, while Intel is looking at them."
AMD Restructuring After 1Q Revenue Miss Houston Chronicle, TX
Advanced Micro's Sales Fall 8%, Less Than Anticipated (Update5) Bloomberg
AMD's Perfect Storm Spooner
The first quarter of 2006 represents the high water mark for AMD and ATI’s combined revenue for the last eight quarters ..... Intel is on the upswing with an improved product line that has increased its ability to compete and win business from AMD. ...... AMD’s purchase of ATI has created some uncertainty around its graphics processors and chipsets product line. ..... an overall slowdown in brand-name desktop PC sales ...... competition between Intel and AMD will remain intense throughout 2007. ...... its ability to begin an on-time transition to 45-nanometer production. ..... any delay in its transition to 45nm, which is scheduled to begin at mid-2008, will hurt AMD’s long-term capability to compete with Intel.
AMD Gives Us A Tech Reality Check GigaOm The demand for devices – from PCs to wireless phones to everything is heading south - fast. ..... the demand has been lagging in most high-end volume markets - PC’s, wireless handsets and most categories of consumer electronics. .... The good news is that this is market self correcting itself, and instead of a Bust 2.0, we might have a slow correction in the technology ecosystem.
AMD's Pain, Investors' Gain BusinessWeek Chalk investors' positive reaction up to aggressive cost cutting. .... curtailing its spending to weather a fierce onslaught from giant Intel ..... With less money coming into the company, AMD said it will revise its business model. ..... AMD's stock price has plummeted by about 60% during the past year, a $9 billion drop in market value that has underscored concerns about the company's ability to withstand the pricing pressure from the much-larger Intel. ........ Blogger Om Malik called the AMD announcement a "tech reality check"


AMD sees revenue coming up short, plans overhaul Globe and Mail, Canada AMD's shares gained 3.5 per cent to $13.30 in early trading while larger rival Intel Corp. rose 1.6 per cent to $19.89. .... a bruising price war with Intel that has eroded profits for both companies
AMD to miss market expectations Toronto Star, Canada
AMD will restructure business after earnings drop Computerworld, MA
AMD Sales Battered By Intel Red Herring, CA Advanced Micro Devices, the world’s second-largest maker of personal computer processors, said revenue declined 8 percent in the first quarter amid a pricing battle with larger rival Intel. .... The drop in revenue wasn’t as big as some investors anticipated, sending the shares higher. .... Intel has superior products and it is pricing them “aggressively,” putting pressure on Advanced Micro’s sales and profitability
AMD sees revenue below view, plans overhaul Canada.com, Canada
AMD sees revenue below Wall Street view CNET News.com, CA plans to reduce 2007 capital expenditures by about $500 million, cut discretionary expenses and limit hiring to critical positions.
AMD sees revenue below view, plans overhaul Washington Post, DC evidence that a price war between AMD and Intel is continuing ..... "We expect to see evidence of a decline in prices across the board, and that's likely to hurt both AMD and Intel." ..... hopes that AMD's moves would help reduce excess capacity in the industry .... the second quarter in a row that AMD has shown signs of trouble in the price war that has eroded profits for it and Intel in the $30 billion processor industry.
AMD, Intel shares rise Reuters.uk, UK





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Friday, April 06, 2007

A Web 3.0 Manifesto


Web 3.0: When Geography Is 100% Irrelevant

This is not just about taking the web experience to a new level, this is also about the human mass on the web. That mass has to be near total. And that can not be on and off. So wires are going haywire. And slow does not count. So that is universal, wireless broadband. You don't wait for the rest of the world to get rich. You focus on the mindspace as a business space. Mindspace is mindspace regardless of the income bracket of the person. Every additional mind connected to the web adds value.

So when you have almost everyone online at zip speed, that is something. And then you also focus on the web experience. That experience goes beyond the two dimensions we have today. That part need not go universal right away. Meeting someone online has almost to be like meeting in person. That is what geography being irrelevant means. It does not mean that even though you are 10,000 miles away, I can still email you, chat with you. It means you get transported to me.



Geography being irrelevant also means the web experience should not have to be a strain on your body, not on your spine, not on your eyes, not on your wrist. You are looking at much, much better screens, screens as good as paper. You are looking at standing up, walking around experiences. You are looking at complex voice commands, as in, no need to type all the time. You are looking at near similar experiences for the physically challenged, the audiovisually impaired.

Web 3.0 does not just pertain to software applications. It pertains to connection, software and hardware. It pertains to the digital divide. A web that does not have a near total human mass is not really a web. Because the web is about humanity, not technology. Technology merely facilitates.

One constant will remain. There will never be enough of two things on the web: content and search. The possibilities are as limitless as the human mind itself. We are back to all becoming farmers. The vast majority of us can go into the business of producing and consuming mindfood.

Or maybe it is two stages, Web 3.0 and Web 4.0. Or maybe it is three stages, Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 and Web 5.0. But the future is now. Entrepreneuers playing with technology and capital can break all barriers to make it happen. It is mostly about creating things that never existed before. And so there is little competition, much win win situations for most. It is to be largely a creative endeavor.

This is to launch a new millenium. The future is now.

On The Web

A List Apart: Articles: Web 3.0
Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense - New York Times
» What to expect from Web 3.0 | Software as services | ZDNet.com
Web 3.0
Web 3.0: Web 3.0 - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!
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Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Welcome Web 3.0!
Semantic Web - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc.: Web 2.0? Try 3.0
Web 3.0? - Download Squad
Web 3.0 - Features by PC Magazine
A 'more revolutionary' Web - Technology - International Herald Tribune
Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services
Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google? « Evolving Trends
Web 3.0: Basic Concepts « Evolving Trends
Sramana Mitra on Strategy » Blog Archive » Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
Web 3.0 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Web 3.0?
iZachy - blogging to web 3.0 and beyond
Minding the Planet: Web 3.0 Versus Web 2.0
Web 3.0? » The Bivings Report
Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense - New York Times
» Web 2.0 isn’t dead, but Web 3.0 is bubbling up | Between the ...
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KurzweilAI.net
Technology Review: Part I: A Smarter Web
Nick Bradbury: Web 3.0 Does Not Validate
O'Reilly Radar > Web 3.0? Maybe when we get there.
Airbag - Kirken.
It's Web 3.0! (Scripting News)
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Freebase: the Web 3.0 machine
Web 3.0: From Web Site to Web Service
Can 'Spiritual Computing' Drive Web 3.0?
Web 3.0 @ WEB 2.0 JOURNAL
Idea for Web 3.0 Site
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Micro Persuasion: Web 3.0 and the Widgetized Web
Enterprise Resilience Management Blog: Web 3.0
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The Fishbowl: Digital Identity
How Web 2.0 Mashups Fuel Web 3.0/ Semantic Web
Digg - Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services
HipHipUK » Blog Archive » Le Web 3.0
NewsForge | The Future of Web 3.0: Part II
Web 2.0 Summit - November 7-9, 2006 - San Francisco, CA ...
Die Zukunft im Web 3.0 - Eine Vision | Dr. Web Weblog
A List Apart: Comments: Web 3.0
Wilbur-and-O: Microformats, Web 3.0, etc.
Web 3.0: Google as the Web : SEO Book.com
Technology Review: What Comes After Web 2.0?
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Web 3.0: The Other Semantic Web - Features by PC Magazine
Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services
Scott's "SiteExperts" Place: Start.com: A Preview of Web 3.0
Blogger Indonesia A. Fatih Syuhud Weblog: Web 3.0 after Web 2.0?
Free Coffee From Yahoo? | Defining Web 3.0 | Trynt: Misc. APIs ...
HR-XML blog » Web 3.0
Web 3.0: A Smarter, Spookier Internet » Silicon Valley Blog About ...
QTSaver: Web 3.0
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Vers un web 3.0 ? on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Evolution of the Species: Web 3.0
Web 3.0 and SEO
Techmeme: Web 3.0 Does Not Validate (Nick Bradbury)
Sramana Mitra on Strategy » Blog Archive » Web 3.0 and CNN Money
PERSONALIZE MEDIA » Blog Archive » Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0 and ...
Web 3.0 map on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
iia blog » The Semantic Web: Web 3.0?
Ross Mayfield's Weblog: There is no Web 3.0, part, uh, 2
web30: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
Talking with Talis: Nova Spivack talks with Talis about Web 3.0 ...
Web 2.0 is mass market, Web 3.0 is the transformation of ...
EirePreneur: How Feed Grazing fits into Web 3.0
Second Life Education Research » Blog Archive » Response to ...
Why there will never be a Web 3.0 | Canadian Marketing Blog ...
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Geeking with Greg: AI and "Web 3.0"
Web-3.0 - the new and better webdevelopment standard
OSWeekly.com - The Future of Web 3.0: Part II
Mobile Opportunity: Web 3.0
Web 3.0 AI Commonsense - part 2
mSpace: web 2.0 meets web 3.0 meets iTunes
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Thursday, April 05, 2007

Nic Butterworth's Open Coffee MeetUp


You get off the 6 train on Astor Place, and you just can't miss the Starbucks. It's right there. Thursday 9.15 AM. So that totally weeds out those who are just out for beer. Jobholders and entrepreneurs are two different species. If you should be at work at 9.15 in the morning, you probably don't belong here.

Nic Butterworth has the relaxed ways of someone who has already proven himself before. You feel easy around him. He is talking, then at the same time he is taking one step back and being his creative self. Parts of him keep churning what he is good at churning out even when he is very much with you.



I met him first on Tuesday evening at Scott's Tech MeetUp. (Scott 2.0, MeetUp.com 2.0) Nic's thing basically was that on YouTube you get lost. If you are into snowboarding, and you want many super clips of one particular move, you can't do that on YouTube. You come to Nic. This kind of vertical niche search has enormous value. He is definitely adding some serious value, and that is where the riches are.

That is the key question entrepreneurs have to ask themselves. Am I adding value?

I was the second person to sign up for it: The New York Open Coffee Meetup. So I am thinking, will it be just him and me? My train had a 20 minute delay, and so I was about five minutes late. And the place was full. It was crowded. How did he do it? How do you go from two on Tuesday midnight to 22 on Thursday morning? I am thinking, maybe the guy is famous.

Apparently most people had already introduced themselves. I got up, said my name, and talked up the IC for 20 seconds. The IC is a doughnut. It is not Nobel Prize for Physics material. It is meant to be a commodity.

The group broke into three, finance, real estate, and something else. I stuck with finance. The lead person had been in the Silicon Valley for 20 years. He made it sound like the East Coast, West Coast thing in tech and venture capital was no different than it is with rap music. New York is more conservative. Here people are not used to taking chances. You already should be churning some profit for them to pump money into you. Whereas in California, the idea sells.

I am not going anywhere. My market is right here. NYC is my number one market. Got contact info for one angel investor.

Met Christine, hardware Korean, software American. Cheerful. She was adopted by a South Dakota family when she was five months old. ("I have been to South Dakota.") She has worked at Microsoft in its XBox division. She is multicultural. She has lived in Paris a few years, for example. ("I have been to Wisconsin. It is like another planet.") She has that entrepreneur DNA, it is so obvious. Her company is called Mao Networks. And I am thinking Chairman Mao. She says it is an island off of Spain. Well then, that island must have been named after Chairman Mao.

And there was this London lady just passing through town. And three ladies around a table staying late. "Men don't change. Inside they are the same. Outside it looks different." Summary: it is a sexist world, and you feel that inside corporations, inside relationships.

There were so many good ideas floating around. It was so educational to get inside peeps into many startups at different stages of their growth. Frankly, I could not have enough of this. It could have gone on a few more hours, and I would still stick around.

Good thing this will happen every Thursday morning. Now I know what rush hour train rides are like.

It is important not to lose focus though. These meetings should not be the sharpening pencils sessions as a way to postpone actually doing the homework.

On The Web

Nicholas Butterworth
echospin | Our Team
Diversion Media Weblog
COMEBACKS: Nicholas Butterworth's New New Thing - Valleywag the former MTVi CEO and Silicon Alley Reporter coverboy, who, like many from Alley 1.0, was suddenly back at the table, buying back in ...... 'Everything is cranking up,'' said Butterworth. ''There is definitely something in the air. It's not exactly the same as it was the first time around, but it's got some of that same spirit.'' ..... Sounding very 1995 ..... his new firm, Diversion Media, launched Travelistic in late October. The site is billed as a YouTube for travel videos .... compelling, engaging user experiences in robustly profitable niches ..... moving beyond the strict user-created model and nabbing professional video personalities for the site.
Nicholas Butterworth: See what people are saying right now on ...
Nicholas Butterworth
The music man - Salon
Nicholas Butterworth
Nicholas Butterworth - Filmography - Movies - New York Times
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In The News

Carter Defends Pelosi's Syria Trip Playfuls.com
EU Bashes Apple Over iTunes Price in Different Euro-Regions Playfuls.com
Toshiba Enhances Thermal Power Generation Service in North America TechWhack
Cisco eyes future Linksys strategy Computerworld
Acer Up, Dell Down In Latest Notebook Numbers
CRN
Review: Apple appalls where Xbox excels
Canada.com
Greenpeace Ranks Apple Last for Green
Chicago Tribune
HP targets PC performance-seekers on a budget
ZDNet UK
Gartner: Intel Still Number 1, Despite Revenue Declines
CIO India
Cisco set to fight aftermarket sellers
Computerworld
Getting Started with Google’s My Maps
PC World
Google Embraces Web 2.0 Model in 'My Maps' Feature CIO Today
Google blurs line between advertising and content, again
ZDNet
Google Expands into Television Advertising, through Deal with EchoStar
Teleclick.ca
Experts say Microsoft should consider change in patching process
SC Magazine US
EU may force Microsoft to license server protocols for free
Ars Technica
Breaking News Microsoft Sues Student Software Sellers
CIO Today
Yahoo Patches Instant Messaging Flaw
BetaNews
Reality Check on The Yahoo/Facebook Story
Seeking Alpha Yahoo! made attempts last year to purchase leading social networking site Facebook. ...... Facebook has recently surpassed 21 million registered users and generates 1.5 billion page views a day. May's argument is that Yahoo will rue the day it didn't pay $750 million to $1.6 billion for Facebook. ..... Yahoo failed to buy Google in its early days and blew Facebook too. .... Facebook.com ranked as the 36th most-visited site on the Web in February 2007 ..... the second-most “engaging” site .... the number one site for photos, ahead of Yahoo!’s Flickr ..... the most viewed site by females in the United States (69%) ages 17-25 ..... the second most "in" thing among undergraduates, tied with beer and after only the iPod. ..... bonus if Facebook goes public: Wall Street will finally be able to short Web 2.0 directly.
Yahoo Needs a Face-to-Face With Facebook Barron's (subscription)
IBM donates translation software to US military
Washington Post
IBM Targets India with Autonomic Computing Center
CIO India
BMW Oracle wins warm-up cup
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Sun Microsystems And Boeing Team Up To Solve Extreme Data ...
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Sun Microsystems celebrates silver anniversary
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Sun Microsystems launches new updated UltraSparc IV+ processors
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Wal-Mart says sorry, this time to shareholders
CNNMoney.com
Wal-Mart expands personal well-being programs
Reuters.uk
Ford’s CEO Made Over $28 Million. In His First Four Months.
New York Times
CEO confirms talks on sale of Chrysler unit
Seattle Times
Oil Prices Rise
Forbes
Solar Radio Bursts Could Cripple GPS
Space.com
Lifting restrictions on digital music is just one small step
Chicago Tribune
Deal brings Wimax deployment a step closer
Computeractive
Solid foundation now in place for WiMax in Asia Pacific: In-Stat Indiantelevision.com Last year was a good one for the development of WiMax in the Asia/Pacific region, as a solid foundation was laid by the joint efforts of market regulators, operators and eager equipment vendors .... From a lean base of 0.27 million in 2006, total WiMax subscribers in 16 Asia/Pacific countries are expected to reach 31.43 million by 2012 ..... Carrier spending of WiMax and WiMax-backhauled WiFi network equipment will escalate from $394.9 million in 2006 to $2908.9 million in 2012.
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Pipex in Nokia wireless broadband deal
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Rural Eastern Cape to get wireless broadband
Dataweek (press release)
Warwick to pilot WiMAX broadband services
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Intel plans Centrino Pro for business notebooks CNetNews
iStockphoto sees new rivals everywhere
Photo wars: A $2 billion business gets rough Business 2.0
Online real estate has become a virtual land grab Business 2.0
New OpenOffice version includes security upgrade
Thailand blocks YouTube for clip mocking king
Apple PCs coming to 200 Best Buy stores

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Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Scott 2.0, MeetUp.com 2.0


Social Networking: Where The Internet Comes Down From The Clouds

When I moved to NYC summer of 2005, one of the people I got to know was Scott. "Man, meeting you is like meeting a movie star!" I was a Deaniac from 2004, and MeetUp.com was all the rage. We clicked just like that, became friends. He invited me over to come see him at his office. I complimented on the color red. My cultural background is primary colors and loud voices. Americans wear drab and talk soft.

I came to NYC to cultivate my business idea but got sucked into the democracy movement in Nepal, best work I ever did. I mean, when your house is on fire, you don't go cultivate a business. But as of past week, I am back. And the place I started was at MeetUp.com. The first event listed was one I had started: NYC Aspiring Entrepreneurs. Someone Jessica was running it now. She turned out to be Jessica Mah, 16. I visited her blog when I went back home. She was complaining how she thought she ought to be made Organizer of the Month but her being 16 was being used against her.

When I met Scott today, I put in word for her. He wrote her name down. And he gets to read this blog entry also. She runs a terrific large group. And she is a Scott in the making herself. I think you are going to hear more of her. She is an entrepreneur. She has it. She dreams of creating "the eBay of services." Way to go.



At Jessica's MeetUp I met Ed, a veteran who has worked for companies like IBM, real tall guy, West Indies background, that accent. He might help me find investors, he said.

And Scott's NY Tech Meetup. This thing has gone so big. Watching the presentations felt like being in a movie theater. It was like having a front seat into the future of the web. The internet started out as a poster. Then it became a little more interactive. Today's slew of presentations blew me away. The interactions are going to a whole new level. Graphic, intuitive stuff are coming along.

Video Of The MeetUp Tonight
This event was covered on CNNMoney.com
Video Of The Event

The first guy allowed you to insert comments into a video clip. One guy Mark, who sat next to me at the exclusive dinner after the event at a Tibetan place (Momo anyone? I am addicted to momo from my days in Kathmandu, I had two servings), allowed you to connect the dots and make pictures, that which you did as a kid on paper. Mind blowing. And he is just doing it on the side, no business plan yet, he talked like he just had to get it out of his system. Another was offering vertical silos of high quality videos. You just can't get that on YouTube. Say you are into snowboarding, you perhaps want many clips of a particular move, high quality ones.

There is never going to be enough of two things on the web: content and search. The possibilities are as limitless as the human mind.

I wish there were a place at the Tech MeetUp page where you could find the links to all the websites that get presented. Mark, add your link in the comments section please. I did not have a pen on me.

http://www.diversionmedia.com
http://www.associatedcontent.com
http://www.daylife.com

The most mindblowing presentation was DayLife. It was out of this world. I got a glimpse of search the way it should be. The human mind does not think in terms of lists of links. It thinks the way of the DayLife presentation.

CEO Upendra. He was at the dinner. MIT guy. Came out of school in 1994. Sold his Firefly to Microsoft. Microsoft Passport is his thing. So Bill Gates bought Hotmail from Sabeer Bhatia and Passport from Upendra, what does he offer of his own? How smart is Bill Gates really? Powerful, yes, but smart? Maybe he started out smart, and just got powerful.

His namesake - Upendra Mahato in Moscow - is the richest Nepali on earth. Mahato just invested into my startup yesterday, a symbolic gesture. I have been flying high since. I emailed a pitch also to this local, Indian Upendra after I got back home. He speaks in the measured tones of someone who grew up in America, as he did.

Vineet Gupta also at DayLife. He is a UP guy. That state in India is like a galaxy. It is such a huge population and the politics is so rumbunctious.

Tips for Scott. MeetUp.com still has this huge edge on social networking sites that exist only online. Noone emphasizes facetime like MeetUp.com. But add more features in the "add friends" section so exchanging business cards becomes a thing of the past. I guess you "steal" more and more select features from places like MySpace and Facebook. Sorry if I sounded fuzzy. In short, MeetUp.com should compete on both facetime and screentime, and not just on facetime, which it already has an edge on.

Got to meet Scott's girlfriend Emily who works at the UN. Small world, go figure. Emily and I figured we both know someone in common, Julie! Julie has made documentaries on Nepal.

And there was this 13 year old daughter of an Assistant Organizer. She is the one who I gave my $5 for the event to. She was at the gate collecting. I kept reminding her about that - the money part - at dinner. "You are the one who took away my money!"

About 500 people at the MeetUp, 10 at the dinner afterwards. Thanks Scott for inviting.

And I am slated to go to this MeetUp Thursday morning: The New York Open Coffee Meetup. Others go to work, I go to a MeetUp. I am hungry for investors right now. Nicholas was the first to sign. I was number two. He just launched this MeetUp.

Parting ways for the evening, I exclaimed to Upendra, "I don't have the slightest clue where I am at right now!" He gave me gentle directions to the Union Square station.

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Links

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Guy Kawasaki interview with Steve Wozniak
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