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This could be a huge story: an online software provider decides to buy 40,000 licenses. This is the kind of story that propels a small company towards an IPO. Webguild.com, a website with 73,000 unique visitors per month, put up an article that dumps on Google, saying that GE picked a competitor’s product. But there [...]

In previous posts I had written about how the electric car company Tesla’s choice to manufacture its own cars in San Jose, CA was a huge mistake. I had also written about how the decision by the City of San Jose to give Tesla all sorts of freebies was a dumb idea. Today I see [...]

On the left I have a screenshot about Highland dancing. I am not sure what it is, but even if you win at it, it doesn’t matter. Just like the electric car race. Even if Tesla ‘wins’, it will be immediately run over by the big guys. Yesterday I blogged about how Tesla should not [...]

OK, that is overstating it. I missed the whole ‘locavore’ thing, which is where people try to eat what is grown locally. The word ‘locavore’ got so much traction in 2007 that it was named the Oxford Word of the Year for 2007. The locavore movement was a big thing in San Francisco, which is [...]