“The three big powers on the Internet now are Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft. Average age of their founders: 24. So it is pretty well established now that grad students can start successful companies. And if grad students can do it, why not undergrads?”

“As promised, here is the audio recording (39Mo, mp3) of the panel I had the pleasure to moderate with David Weinberger and Richard Edelman on corporate blogging. I apologize if the sound is a bit weak, I did it with a simple ipod. David’s slides are here (pdf, 4,5Mo).”

“Bank of America announced [last week] that it will acquire the biggest credit card company in the country, MBNA, for $35 billion. After details of the proposed merger were made public, the companies’ stock prices went in opposite directions…”