Cloudy Thinking

Jeremy Levine of Bessemer Venture Partners writes about three things he’s bullish about, including video games and the massive ecosystem around them.

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I’ve invested in World of Warcraft, which reminds me of Dungeons and Dragons on steroids. Second Life is a much less popular MMORPG alternative that has a more “modern” feel based on my fleeting glance a while back.

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A USA Today article by Brian Bergstein (AP) provides these VoIP factoids.

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A week ago I started a three month experiment with World of Warcraft (WoW), by far the most popular Massively Multiplayer On-line Role Playing Game (MMORPG).

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David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology seems to appeal to a lot of geeks.

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Trader Mike writes an interesting stock trading blog

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This animated map by Tim Klimowicz shows deaths of coalition forces in Iraq by location. It is a “must see.”

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A friend writes: “The Indian government has put a hold on Huawei Technologies‘ business in India following an analysis showing that the country’s strategic telecommunications network could be compromised by Huawei’s presence. Of particular concern are Huawei’s ties to the Chinese government and military, the report says. Huawei, which has operated in India since 1999, has not commented.”

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Living in the Internet means you try cool new “Cloudy Stuff.” Your assignment today: spend a few minutes exploring ProtoPage.

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Have you (like me…) been losing sleep trying to figure out how mankind will absorb the trillions of billions of computing cycles that result from the gazillions of processors sold every day? The New York Times offers one hint in a fascinating article on the race to build ever faster supercomputers:

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It has been a while since we talked (here, here 2, here 3, here 4, here 5 and.. here 6)
about my dreams for a useable mobile phone and PDA combo. When last we spoke, I expressed my love (lust?) for the Motorola Q, coming to a store near you in early 2006. That is a long time for any of us to wait, but I’m trying to restrain my impulses, yet I really want to Live a Better life Now.

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All Cloudy Thinking personnel are hereby directed to check out maps.a9.com.

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