Monday, March 04, 2002

The Moses Avalon Royalty Calculator -- calculates the royalties on your record company deal!   The calculator defaults to a typical record company deal. 9:19:05 PM

[diveintomark] How to enable personal web sharing in Windows XP Home Edition. 8:44:53 PM

[IDG InfoWorld] IBM affirms Web services commitment 8:33:10 PM

[Scripting News] Steve Jobs nails it. "We believe that over 80 percent of people are willing to pay," he says. "But there is no one offering you a choice." Amen.  8:30:35 PM

[Daypop Top 40] How bin Laden got away | csmonitor.com 8:29:09 PM

[Daypop Top 40] "Schoolhouse Rock" 8:29:00 PM

[CNET News.com] Morpheus' downfall: Bills weren't paid. According to Dutch company Kazaa BV, delinquent licensing bills were to blame for the blackout of the hugely popular file-swapping network. 8:07:19 PM

[John Robb's Radio Weblog] WSJ.  The lawsuit against idealab is growing.   Investors want their money back claiming financial mismanagement. >>>The plaintiffs in the case are part of a group that put about $1 billion in February 2000 into idealab.  The suit against idealab was originally filed last month on the heels of an offer by idealab to buy out investors for 10 cents on the dollar. Only about 10% of investors sold shares back to idealab, according to the company. Many investors complained that the offer was too low.<<<  It sounds like they are trying to buy-out investors with their own money!  Hey! >>>According to the complaint, the board raised Mr. Gross's salary and bonus to $766,667 in fiscal 2002 from $250,000 in fiscal 2000 and increased Ms. Goodstein's salary and bonus to $616,667 in fiscal 2002 from $190,000 in fiscal 2000.  Mike Hennigan, a lawyer representing idealab, said the salary increases were made to bring Ms. Goodstein's and Mr. Gross's compensations in line with industry norms. <<<  Perhaps these are industry norms for Fortune 500 execs, but the management of a failing Internet incubator hardly qualifies.  At least the execs at most $1 b VC funds have a track record of success to fall back on as justification for their salaries. 11:34:12 AM

[BBC World] US helicopter shot down in Afghanistan. A US army Chinook helicopter is shot down in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least six US soldiers, the Pentagon says. 11:29:28 AM

[Scripting News] John Hiller: Google Time Bomb.  9:25:31 AM

[Wired News] House Cool to Copy Protection. Key legislators in the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives aren't keen on embedding copy protection controls in consumer electronic devices. Declan McCullagh and Robert Zarate report from Washington. 6:40:45 AM

[ZDNet Tech News] Call me on my BlackBerry. Research In Motion's BlackBerry 5810 combines the BlackBerry e-mail device with a wireless telephone in the latest sign of growing convergence in the wireless devices. 6:30:45 AM

[Sam Ruby's Radio Weblog] Rael creates blosxom.  Way cool. 6:19:18 AM