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Privacy on the Internet — as Facebook’s Beacon advertising platform and other examples make clear — is not something that anyone can expect. It can be achieved, however, and maintained. Here’s how.

WebWorkerDaily: Switching to Mac? 16 tips to make it easy. (And another great guide for those who walk on the geek side.)
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Once a week we’ll begin publishing a quick index of useful posts from startup CEOs and founders – – stuff they’re writing and reading. Where introductions are needed, we’ll offer them, but you’ll recognize many authors as your current role models, or pre-existing Found|READ contributors. (Eventually we’ll add to this resource mid-week as well.) Here is the […]

“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.”—Linus C. Pauling, American chemist and two-time Nobel Prize recipient.  I received a holiday card with this quotation in it this week. I liked it. And decided it was just the kind of wisdom that startup founders need to keep in mind.Pauling won […]

Right before the Christmas holidays I got a chance to catch up with Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, VMWare’s chief scientist and one of the company’s five co-founders. Rosenblum is also an associate professor of computer science at Stanford University. Given that VMWare was in a quiet period prior to the release of its quarterly results, my conversation with Rosenblum was quite general. But he did share with me, among other things, the story of how VMWare got started and his outlook for virtualization in 2008. Here are excerpts from the interview.

Earlier this year we wrote about Gaboogie, a web-based conference call service started by Erik Lagerway. The service didn’t quite work out, and the company reconfigured its business focus to offering instant group calls from mobiles, and is now called Lypp.

Another web-based conferencing service, Foonz might be going down that route. Randy Corke, President & […]