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initial iif import file

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I don’t like Fink or Ports very much, so Solomon’s little script saved me a lot of time and headache, thanks for that!

It looks like some hosts are not up all the time, if you run into problems just google for the files and download them into your folder, then continue to run the script below.

install_rmagick

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He wrote “Let’s face it, we’re skunk drunk and it’s because of money. It’s almost like we all need to enter Betty Ford Clinic 2.0 together”… “The bubble really began in earnest on October 9, 2006 when Google bought YouTube. That’s when every person with an entrepreneurial itch woke up and smelled the hype and money. Prior to then, startups were more focused on the entrance, not the exit”… “I miss the days of 2004 when the class that includes Flickr, del.icio.us and others started. They really were about changing the web, not making a quick buck (they did so only because they added value)”, and he closes with “However, most of the rest of today’s net startups are only after the almighty dollar and while that’s capitalism, it saddens me because it has done little but breed hubris.”

This post caused immediate and very mixed reactions in the bloggerssphere…

Richard MacManus wrote in his post Poll: Are We Still Changing the Web? “the Web is still changing – despite the seeming lack of new innovative startups”, and he mentions innovative technology happening in the mobile web space and how social networks are showing signs of opening up.

Ok, so there is still innovation going on, but what is the driving force behind it?

John Heilemann wrote in his post Web Bubble 2.0 “Well, maybe it is a bubble. But out in Silicon Valley, they don’t think of that as a bad thing at all.”… “A year ago, the burgeoning social-networking outfit Facebook was nearly bought by Yahoo for $1 billion; today, the price tag is $15 billion”… “More than 1.3 billion consumers around the world now use the Internet, and the global growth curve is steep. Meanwhile, the main source of unbridled mania in the nineties, IPOs, are a nonfactor this time around. Instead, the boom is being driven by giants with riverine profit flows and vast reservoirs of cash”.

Howard Lindzon wrote in his post Social Networks… Why Not Undervalued? “To think that Facebook is the ultimate, or even biggest winner of this era of social networks is lazy thinking. There is too much leverage from so little to think that billions more investor capital won’t pour in to this space in the next 20 years”… “What niche will trigger the next big social networking craze and trend? That’s what you should be thinking about as an entrepreneur. The tools have never been more available and starting a company never been cheaper”

And then there was this article in the New York Times where PayPal founder Levchin says that he wouldn’t consider his latest start up Slide.com a success until it is worth “at least $1.54 billion”, and about his thoughts before he started Slide.com “I knew I wanted to be a CEO, I just didn’t know the CEO of what”… “I’d run any company; it’s completely irrelevant to me, It’s really about this drive to win”.

Good, I would like to add my 2 cents here, I think Steve Rubel is aware of the fact that the situation now is completely different from the dotcom crash, and he doesn’t claim there is no innovation going on at all anymore, but what he says is that the motives have changed, and this results in an increasing number of start ups who are only after the big bucks. Most commentators read who disagree with Steve simply refer back to there is still a lot of money to make with internet startups.

Meg Whiteman recently said that what we saw in the last ten years was only a warm up for what is coming in the next ten years, and I agree, but at the same time I think the once so beautiful idea of the world wide web has changed, it has turned into a money making machine, a successful one though…

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Well, I still think generally spoken there is no better OS, for some users Microsoft is the way to go, for others it will be Linux or Mac.

It has been said before, personally I don’t like Microsoft systems, one of the reasons is that I can not live without having a powerful UNIX shell at my disposal… but that’s just me…

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Interesting topic, journalism, currently I am reading Keen’s “The Cult of the Amateur”, Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School wrote a great post about it in his blog.“And then it hit me: Keen is our generation’s greatest self-parodist. His book is not a criticism of the Internet. Like the article in Nature comparing Wikipedia and Britannica, the real argument of Keen’s book is that traditional media and publishing is just as bad as the worst of the Internet.”

There was also an interesting post by Nate Anderson in ars technica about the recent federal decision where Judge Henry Hurlong, Jr. said that a journalist turns out to be anyone who does journalism, and bloggers who do so have the same rights and privileges under federal law as the ‘real’ journalists.

Well, the point is, it is amazing how fast information is distributed nowadays, usually I know about something new going on in our industry within less then an hour, thanks to all the feeds that are available out there, but it is still up to me and my responsibility to make the decision whether to believe in the latest news or not, and it always was, even in times of the “old media”.

Yesterday for example there was this article in the New York Times about Walmart selling a PC for $200 with GOS as OS, optimized for Google applications, and I thought “wow, this is gonna hurt Microsoft”. So I submitted the story to digg. Five minutes later I read in Twitter the following: Went to Walmart today. No Google/Everex/Linux PCs to be found. Register biscuits totally clueless about the whole thing. Go figure. Got the point? Amazing, instant information distribution…. I love it…

Another interesting thing that happened yesterday was Google hitting the $700 mark and becoming the 5th most valuable company on the planet. I love Google, and when they where at $430 and took a loss down to $360 some of my friends said that this is the beginning of the end, I said I think they will go up to $800 – I told you so… Lets see how Maka-Maka kicks in (will write about it later today), and how the new Google-MySpace deals works out, $800 is probably not even the end… waiting for my favorite company to surpass Microsoft, currently Google’s market-cap is $219 Billion, Microsoft’s $346 Billion, so getting close… Uhm, I am not a Google groupy, or am I?

More I-told-you-so’s: VMWare is also doing great, when I said this will be huge they were at $70, now it is $122, and they are about to outperform Google…

Ok, that was in brief what struck me yesterday, now I can start to work on the articles I actually had in the queue…

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Tonight I wanted to take the chance and post some pics from the Business and Technology Expo in Bakersfield 10/30, our first event together with the newest member of the Jupiter Labs family Kelly Bryant.

Thank you very much Kai for organizing this for us, you did an awesome job and we surely had a great time together in Bakersfield this day.

I love working with you guys.

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