Since last year we have seen rumors about Google getting into the IM space and into the VOIP space. Today Google launched Google Talk,
(here\’s a news story)
an instant messaging client that incorporates voice as well. I searched
Google for \”Google Talk\” and I went to talk.google.com (just a guess)
and couldn\’t find anything. (They haven\’t pre-programmed their own
index for this launch–I wonder how long it will take for them to be #1
Daily Archives: August 24, 2005
Auctioning Consulting Services
It\’s nearly 3 am, and I\’m having one of those sleepless nights, where
my mind is racing with new ideas and lists of things I have to do. I
know (from experience) that I won\’t get back to sleep until I\’ve
written things down. And while I\’m at it, I decided to blog about one
of these new ideas.
For several months I\’ve been contemplating a shift in my career from
pure startup entrepreneur to venture capitalist. I\’ve been studying the
history of venture capital and have learned that many of the pioneers
of the industry and many of the leading VCs today don\’t just look for
deals, but they create them. They help form companies, generate
business plans, recruit management, and act in many ways like
founders–they just don\’t often run the companies.
This appeals to me a great deal. In fact, it is really what I\’ve been
UK Genealogy Site Acquired
Here\’s an interesting development in the genealogy world, posted by paidcontent.org:
Friends Reunited Buys 1901 Census for About $6 Million: In UK, community site Friends Reunited, which is looking for a buyout itself, has bought The National Archives 1901 Census for about $6 million, in a bid to boost membership of its ancestry website Genes Reunited.