Friendster got some new VC capital, after putting itself up for sale and nearly running out of money. They filed for some patents a long time ago, and at least one of those came through. That appears to be what the VCs are interested in, one had specifically pushed for patent applications earlier. See GigaOM [...]
After a successful training (teaching) week, I’m on my way back home. I also had a chat at AuckLUG (facilitated by the Auckland Novell offices) and got invited to an “NZ 2.0″ meeting at Galbraith’s brewhouse by Nat Torkington. That was particularly interesting. Airports are always good fun, lots of computers and other signs at [...]
Travelling to Auckland (NZ) today, teaching a “MySQL 5.0 for DBAs” training course this week. I’ll also be visiting AuckLUG on Monday evening. If you would like to catch up, just drop me a line (arjen @ you know where). New lessons learnt at Brisbane airport… finally found a shop (after security that sells Double [...]
Some of you have already noticed my shift, I joined the MySQL AB professional services department full-time as a Support Engineer. Since I started at MySQL in 2001 I already did training part-time in the Australia and New Zealand region (next to my Documentation job, back then). And ye, I’ll still be at some conferences, [...]