NEVER JOIN A CLUB THAT WANTS YOU AS A MEMBER

NEVER JOIN A CLUB THAT WANTS YOU AS A MEMBER

There is so much happening today, that there seems to be very little to say.  Everyone is waiting for "The Beat Goes On" and for Steve Fossett to return home (who the hell is this guy, when I am gone for two weeks nobody notices?).  

Technology news is getting weirder by the day but we are beyond paying attention to it.  California opposes companies to implant RFIDs in employees, Synthasite is giving shares away to subscribers, games manufacturers will use BCI (Brain Computer Interface) into their games so we can steer with our thoughts and a new hype is coming in the Valley (like powerset which has just parsed Miss Teen South Carolina (was that mean or what?).  The new hype is called cool but written in the new Californian spelling as Cuill, according to Techcrunch a super stealth search engine that worries Google (frankly I do not think they lost a lot of sleep over this).

Miss Teen South Carolina
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When I talked yesterday about Google slowly taking over the complete web analytic market I forgot to mention that they opened the beta platform for Analytics AIR.  I have enlisted as beta tester and will report on it when they start. You can also sign up here if you want.

There is also a new cool maps app called maps.amung.us. This is again Californian spelling, the West has always pioneered itself out of saturated situations by changing the rules of the game: when all the domain names are gone, just change the spelling.  

One of our country managers asked me an intriguing question: we are under the radar for the moment and will be so for the next months, so who do we approach as potential partners, the top Internet companies or the below-the-liners like us?

Universal Darwinism (Richard Dawkins, the Selfish Gene) asserts that any system will accumulate complex traits that favor their reproduction if the system can negotiate variation (with better genomes), makes the right decisions (selection) and has the ability to replicate.  There you have the answer.  To put it in Groucho Marx immortal words: "I would not join any club that would have someone like me for a member." There is no progress in that, shoot higher and if they say no?  So what?  Call the whaaaambulance.

And you do not need money for asking.  In our situation there is nothing we cannot do, just because we do not have any money.  Take advantage of it, as long as it lasts, because I feel the oil coming ☺