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The MooBella System, a virtual ice cream shop in the space of a vending machine, mixes and instantly freezes fresh ingredients to produce a delicious scoop of ice cream within 45 seconds. Consumers can select from 96 combinations of flavors and mix-ins. Designed initially for food service operators, the system increases sales per square foot; automates inventory and portion control; and captures sales and operations data in any location with wireless capability.

I believe.

The MooBella Ice Cream System - MooBella, LLC.

Someone put what some of us already know on a piece of paper. Googlers browse, AOLers BUY.

Ever sat down with AOL and wondered how anyone puts up with the excessive amount of advertising, the number of pitches you have to go through for basic site navigation? Apparently, it is self-selecting, and this is why Google would buy in to AOL. Maybe.

AOL Gives the Best Conversion Rate! | Threadwatch.org

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Practicing the Art of Pitchcraft

Commenting on an earlier post of mine, Sridharan suggested that my four year old son’s simple and clear presentation of his thoughts is “a management lesson…Stick to the point and say it in a single sentence.”

I know it sounds a little crazy, but indeed I’ve come to agree that a clear, compelling elevator pitch is essential to growing a business. (And I’ve paid dearly for the evidence.) So after attending a board meeting yesterday in which the management team struggled to succinctly describe their business, I resolved to blog my agreement with Sridharan. Just in time, too, because Nivi’s been bugging me to answer the question: What makes for a good elevator pitch?

Who Has Time For This?: Practicing the Art of Pitchcraft

To my mind the most interesting aspect of a JBoss acquisition is likely to be the Fleury effect.

Marc Fleury and Larry Ellison working together would be a sitcom I would pay very big money to see. Marc is a maverick. He makes Scott McNealy look like a company man.

James Governor's MonkChips: Other implications of Oracle OSS deals: blue sky thinking

Jeff’s views on what will happen with the current Web 2.0 start-ups is interesting:

A small number of companies will be acquired early before they reach scale or revenues (as opposed to the current fantasy that GEMAYANI will acquire them by the dozen). Another small number will reach profitability and will have their options open, and the majority will either hit the wall or operate small enough that their founders will be able to keep them running alongside their regular day job.

I personally think that there will be a power law kind of situation. Where the A list gets bought up, the B list manage quite fine on their own thank you very much and the C list keep running as a side job.

VC's and Web 2.0

Important new release!

Announcing Web 2.0.1

We would like to alert you that there's been a patch release to Web 2.0 to address some minor bugs and address valuable new features. Although this is a minor upgrade, and should not effect your use of Web 2.0, please note the following changes.

* Bug 84318192-b: We've addressed a problem with the automatic product revision system that caused products to be stuck at "beta" level. Please note that many of these projects are actually Version 1.0 (with several at Version 2.0).

* Bug 84399290.3: We've also noticed that the term "version" when applied to a web based application is kind of dumb. It's not like you can uninstall "News" and use a previous version anyway.

* Bug 84410000: The use of weird names for products is not a bug, it's a feature.

* Bug 84435923: There have been an inordinate number of map based applications. This was due to a programming creativity glitch. Shock collars have been distributed.

* Bug 85211006: Due to various copyright issues and a new sponsorship plan, the use of Javascript and DHTML to modify pages shall be called "DR-BRONNERS"

* Bug 85732641: We thought about introducing an RSS feed of the current time, but decided it was dumb. So we did it anyway. XML

* Bug 86753090: We were thinking about allowing page generators to specify various tags associated with the content they generate. Then we realized those were covered by "meta:keywords", overrun by spammers and now nobody uses them. So we changed the name, they're now called "Generator Tags". We understand several startups announced this morning are basing their business model off of them.
Bug 93242381: ... PROFIT! (Yeah, still working on that one.)

We urge all current Web 2.0 users to upgrade to Web 2.0.1 as soon as possible.

jr conlin’s ink stained banana � Announcing Web 2.0.1

There are some aspects of contemporary web (web2.0?) design which are duplicated across many sites, such as:

TrendyWEB | The Trendiest Web2.0 Page on the Net!

Vonage, the New Jersey-based VoIP services provider filed documents with the Securities & Exchange Commission yesterday, hoping to raise a whopping $250 million in a widely anticipated initial public offering. The marquee group of investment bankers are hoping that investors would over look the obvious structural problems in Vonage’s financial model, and buy the stock in the company. Business Week has a rather in-depth look at the chances of the public offering. The Stalwart does a stellar job as well.

$213.77 per customer in marketing? It's cause they're using old media television saturation -- does that work? I would think "6 free months of service for every new customer" would work at least as well, and cost less (especially because churn goes down after 6 months of usage).

Om Malik on Broadband : » Vonage Churn Investor Heartburn

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