Sun ran this ad promoting their server and our search engine after Excite’s multi-million dollar purchases of Sun hardware to power the launch of Excite.com in October 1995. If memory serves, the query server we purchased from Sun to support the launch of Excite was an eight-way box with a gig or two of RAM and cost around $250k, of which $50k – $70k was the cost for the RAM alone!
And, better late(r) than never. Between our compulsion to relentlessly polish the songs and tweak the mix, our day jobs, getting married and having children, half the band moving to Colorado and starting up a new venture fund, sometimes I feared we’d never get the thing done. But we did. I’m excited to announce that…
I love my new MacBook Air, but yesterday I discovered a design flaw: it is just too small. I left it in the seat-back pocket on the plane I took from Denver to San Francisco. Brad blogged about this yesterday and kindly kept my identity (and absentmindedness) out of his post, but I felt compelled…
I’ve always enjoyed word games of all sorts and compulsively rearrange most words and phrases I encounter to see if there are any amusing acronyms to be found within them. In college, I even wrote a Boggle-playing program in LISP with my friend Martin Reinfried. Naturally, I’ve spent time on the internet anagram server (which,…
Check out the post I just authored on the Foundry Group blog about our interest in the evolution of the man-machine interface beyond the somewhat long-in-the-tooth mouse/keyboard/windows-GUI paradigm. We call this thematic area of interest human computer interaction, or HCI for short. This is an area we’re watching closely as we look for new investment…
I was in Vegas for a couple days last week at Microsoft’s MIX08 conference, with lots of interesting people and tech on display. I also had the good fortune to participate in a panel moderated by Don Dodge which included me, Kimball Musk, Dave McClure, Kevin Rose and Robert Scoble. It wound up being a…
As I sit here in my office listening to a car alarm go off for well over a minute, I am highly annoyed. But the alarm also caused me to reflect on just how useless car alarms are — perhaps when they were first on the market and only a very small fraction of cars…