Paul Jacobson

Category: People

  • Bill Gates’ last day at work

    So what was Bill Gates’ last day at work like? This inside video may shed some light: Technorati Tags:funny, funny video, bill gates, last day at work, microsoft

  • Zuma aint no Obama

    Wouldn’t it be something if our leadership spoke like this?  Wouldn’t it be something if our leaders spoke about important issues and principles instead of doing a dance and singing a song? Wouldn’t that be something? Tags: obama, zuma, principled leadership, issues, principles, quality of leadership

  • Sometimes democracy isn’t such a good thing

    If anything the ANC leadership race is a good illustration of where democracy can be more harmful than beneficial.  Take a party with a huge majority in parliament, throw in a leadership race between an incumbent who hasn’t fulfilled his potential and a disgraced challenger who has tremendous popular support and we have a receipe…

  • So that’s what a Social Graph is!

    Tim Berners-Lee (one of the architects of the Internet) has published a post (licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license) talking about what he sees as a Social Graph and what we are starting to call the Semantic Web.  What I appreciate is his explanation of this term "graph" which has been bandied about so…

  • Synthasite raises $5m in funding

    Congrats to Vinny and his team on raising $5m in funding from Columbus Venture Capital. TechCrunch has a brief post about this today. Vinny posted the news on his blog together with a link to the press release: Ok – so you wonder why things have been quiet on this blog? Apart from the fact…

  • Closing up shop

    (Image: Closed Store by Ben Demey licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license) Victoire and I were chatting a couple days ago and we have decided to end our chili partnership and the chilibean initiative. You can get a pretty good idea of what Victoire has been up to the last few months and I…

  • … please turn out the lights …

    That’s it, the event we (well, a small percentage of “we”) have feared has come to pass and it is time to see if we (the aforesaid small percentage of “we”) have the brass ones to leave Facebook. Microsoft has bought 1.6% of Facebook for $240 million which makes Microsoft a part owner of one…

  • Mondli’s Long Click to Freedom

    Move over Madiba, its time for Mondli’s turn in the spotlight: Make games | Share | Play free online games | User Generated Games @ Pictogame Brought to you by The Times (Courtesy of Gregor) Technorati Tags:editor, government, oppression, sunday times, mondli, free mondli, long click to freedom