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AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford: July 28 thru 30th

On July 28-30, leaders in the global technology industry will gather at the Athens of the Information Age for high-level debates on trends and opportunities. Will you be there?

The seventh annual Summit at Stanford, presented by AlwaysOn and Stanford Technology Ventures Program, is a two-and-a-half-day executive gathering that highlights the significant economic, political and commercial trends affecting the global technology industries.

Who Attends
Summit at Stanford, features the most innovative companies, eminent technologists, influential investors, and journalists in keynote presentations, panel debates and private company CEO showcases. Our goal is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments.

At The AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford, our editors will also honor the AO Global 250 Top Private Companies. Up to 50 technology CEOs will pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in CEO showcase sessions.

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Current Summit at Stanford 2009 Program:

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

4:45pm
Ballroom 1

Opening Remarks
   Tony Perkins, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, AlwaysOn
   Tina Seelig, Executive Diector, Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Co-Host
   Arden Pennell, Program Director, AlwaysOn

5:05pm
Ballroom 1
The AlwaysOn Global 250 of 2008: Where They Are Now
  Tim Miller, VP, 451 Group

5:25pm
Ballroom 1

Introducing the Top Private Companies: The AlwaysOn Global 250 of 2009
  Tony Perkins, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, AlwaysOn
  Packy Kelly, Partner, KPMG
  Konrad Feldman, CEO, Quantcast
  

5:45pm
Ballroom 1

Fireside Chat: Lessons from the Coach's Playbook
Moderator: Michael Moe, co-founder & CEO, Next Global Advisors
Bill Campbell, Chairman, Intuit & Executive Advisor

6:15pm
Ballroom 1
Who will be the Bill Gates of Greentech?
The PC industry was driven by visionaries such as Bill Gates & Steve Jobs --who will drive Greentech? These CEOs from the AO Global 250 have already demonstrated extraordinary leadership.
Co-Moderators: Satjiv Chahil, SVP, Marketing, Personal Systems Group, Hewlett-Packard Company, and Tony Perkins, Founder & Editor, AlwaysOn
Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious Materials
Andrew Perlman, CEO, GreatPoint Energy

7:00pm
-- Reception in the Ford Gardens--

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

8:00am
Ballroom 1

Keynote: The Secondary-Market Solution
Barry Silbert, Founder & CEO, SecondMarket
8:15am
Ballroom 1
Fireside Chat: Secondary Markets & Addressing the Private-Company Liquidity Crisis
Barry Silbert, Founder & CEO, SecondMarket
Greg Brogger, Founder & CEO, SharesPost
Mona DeFrawi, Founder & CEO, InsideVenture
David Weild, Founder, Capital Markets Advisory Partners


8:45am
Ballroom 1 Keynote: Online Video - Snapshot of a Speeding Train
Bill Gurley, General Partner, Benchmark Capital

9:00am
Ballroom 1 OnDemand Video Has Arrived; Who Profits?
Moderator: Bill Gurley, General Partner, Benchmark Capital
Adam Cahan, CEO, Auditude
Mike Glickenhaus, CEO, VMIX
Shishir Mehrotra, Dir. Product Mgmt, YouTube Monetization, Google
Kathy Fields, Partner, Goodwin Procter

9:00am
Ballroom 2
CEO Showcase Session-- Greentech
 Rick Holman, CEO, Industrial Origami
   David Albers, CEO, BioEnergy Solutions
  This session will be emcee'd by AO Contributing Editor Ezra Roizen.The following industry experts will comment, and thereafter CEOs will be available for 30-minutes of Q&A and demos in the lobby.
Dan Baldi, Relationship Manager, Silicon Valley Bank
Ed Lambert, SVP, Bridge Bank
  9:45am
Ballroom 1
Keynote: The Global Mobile Race- When Will the US Catch Up? How Can Investors Cash In?
Paul Jacobs, CEO, Qualcomm


10:00am
Ballroom 1
Who's Making Money in Mobile?
With increasing device sophistication, big $$ have been predicted for years. Which business models are working? Which innovations will lead to returns?
Moderator: Mark Newhall, Co-founder, IdealWave Solutions & INmobile.org
Bart Decrem, CEO, Tapulous
Simon Khalaf, CEO, Flurry
Matt Murphy, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Dorrian Porter, CEO, Mozes
Purnima Kochikar, VP, Nokia Community & Developer Forum, Nokia
 

10:00am
Ballroom 2
CEO Showcase Session - SaaS and Enterprise
 Bob Moul, CEO, Boomi
 Lewis Cirne, CEO, New Relic
 Robert Medrano, EVP, SOA Software
 Steven Gottfried, CEO, ServiceChannel
 Janine Yancey, CEO, emTRAiN
 Phil Fernandez, CEO, Marketo
 Eric Pulaski, CEO, SmartVault
 Doron Reuveni, CEO, uTest

This session will be emcee'd by AO Contributing Editor Ezra Roizen.The following industry experts will comment, and thereafter CEOs will be available for 30-minutes of Q&A and demos in the lobby.
Ted Smith, Partner, Union Square Advisors
  
10:45am

Break

10:55am
Ballroom 1
Fireside Chat on Innovation
  Moderator: Tina Seelig, Executive Dir., Stanford Technology Ventures Program 
   Mitchell Baker, Chairwoman, Mozilla Foundation
  Chris Beard, Chief Innovation Officer, Mozilla Foundation

11:00am
Ballroom 2
CEO Showcase Session - Cloud and Infrastructure
   Vikram Mehta, CEO, BLADE Network Technologies
   Pierre Joubert, CEO, BruteSoft
   Jeff Treuhaft, CEO, Zetta   
   Michael Loftus, CEO, 800PBX
  This session will be emcee'd by AO Contributing Editor Ezra Roizen.The following industry experts will comment, and thereafter CEOs will be available for 30-minutes of Q&A and demos in the lobby.
Scott Johnston, EIR, Alloy Ventures


11:15am
Ballroom 1

The Growing Pains on Innovation
Innovation drives the success of many startups --but can it scale? How do companies grow while keeping their innovative edge?
Moderator: Elizabeth Tinkham, Global Lead, Management Consulting and   Integrated Markets Communications & High Tech Industry Group, Accenture Polly Sumner, President & Chief Adoption Officer, Salesforce.com
Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Product & User Experience, Google
Rashmi Sinha, CEO, SlideShare
Jasmine Kim, COO, ImageSpan

12:00pm
Lunch
Lunch will be served from noon to 1:30p.m.



12:45pm
Ballroom 1
The Rainmakers in Cloud Computing
Will tech giants or startups leverage "the cloud" best? As big firms ramp up offerings and startups offer mgmt & delivery solutions, who's creating the most value for investors?
Moderator: Rafe Needleman, Editor, CNET
Ken Comee, CEO, Cast Iron Systems
Monica Lam, Co-founder & Chief Scientist, MokaFive
Juan Carlos Soto, VP, Sun Microsystems
Chip Hazard, General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
Michael Stein, CEO, Darkstrand
Michael Peachey, Chief Architect & Dir. Engineering-Cloud Computing, TIBCO
 
 

12:45pm
Ballroom 2
CEO Showcase Session - Digital Media & Enabling Tools
   Paul Schaut, CEO, Modiv Media
   Kirsten Mangers, CEO, WebVisible
   Diaz Nesamoney, CEO, Jivox
   Erica Rogers, EVP, Nanosys
   Dan Connors, CEO, Telltale Games

This session will be emcee'd by AO Contributing Editor Ezra Roizen.The following industry experts will comment, and thereafter CEOs will be available for 30-minutes of Q&A and demos in the lobby.
Albert Martinez, Silicon Valley Bank
Michael Yang, Venture Partner, Comcast Interactive Capital

1:30pm
Ballroom 1 Where's the short-term green in green?
Which investments avoid long-term reliance on technology and marketplace evolution to be capital-efficient now?
Moderator: Awais Khan, Director, Venture Capital Practice, KPMG
Jennifer Fonstad, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Anup Jacob, Partner, Virgin Green Fund
Craig Moyer, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
Steve Vassallo, Venture Partner, Foundation Capital

2:15pm
Ballroom 1 Fireside Chat: Sparking an Innovation Movement
Al Delattre, Managing Director, Accenture
 Gary Shapiro, CEO, Consumer Electronics Association   

2:35pm
Ballroom 1
CEO Showcase session
 Craig Chambers, CEO Cernium Corporation
 Ravi Subramaniam, CEO, Berkeley Design Automation
 Todd Young, President & CEO, ProspX
 Christopher M. Boone, CEO, Visuvi
  Ron Neumann, Chairman, Dejero Labs
  Dave Kroetsch, President, Aeryon Labs
  Michael J. McNabb, Voyages North America, Inc.
  Nic Perkin, Co-founder & President, The Receivables Exchange
  John Kish, CEO, Pano Logic
This session will be emcee'd by AO Contributing Editor Ezra Roizen.The following industry experts will comment, and thereafter CEOs will be available for 30-minutes of Q&A and demos in the lobby.
Ed Lambert, SVP, Bridge Bank
  
3:45pm
Ballroom 1
SaaS Goes Open Source
 Moderator: Matt Asay, VP Business Development, Alfresco & Blogger, CNET
 Ron Yekutiel, CEO, Kaltura
 Satish Dharmaraj, Partner, Redpoint Ventures, Founder & Former CEO, Zimbra
 Tom Erickson, CEO, Acquia
 Kim Polese, CEO, SpikeSource
 Stephen Gillespie, Partner, Intellectual Property Group, Fenwick & West


3:45pm
Ballroom 2
CEO Showcase Session - Consumer Internet
  Lauri Koutaniemi, CEO, Snap Group
  Fran Maier, CEO, TRUSTe
  Hideki Kobayashi, CEO, GazoPa
  Marion Freijsen, Founder & CTO, E.Factor
  Jeany Stein, CEO, Select2gether
   Brian Totty, CEO, Diddit
  Tom Patterson, CEO, Wize
This session will be emcee'd by AO Contributing Editor Ezra Roizen.The following industry experts will comment, and thereafter CEOs will be available for 30-minutes of Q&A and demos in the lobby.
Shai Goldman, Director, Entreprenuer Services Group, Silicon Valley Bank
Mike Buckley, Managing Director, Intel Capital

4:30pm
Ballroom 1
New-Millennial VCs Take Charge
Venture capitalists who understand social media consumption and the millennial generation talk about top opportunities going forward
   Moderator: Packy Kelly, Partner, KPMG
  Josh Hannah, General Partner, Matrix Partners
  Jeremy Liew, Managing Director, Lightspeed Venture Partners
  James Slavet, Partner, Greylock Partners
  Tim Chang, Principal, Norwest Venture Partners
 

5:15pm
Ballroom 1


Fireside Chat: The Reporter’s Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
What business model will save news media?
    Moderator: Jason Pontin, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, Technology Review
   David Smith, Founder & CEO, Mediasmith
   Tristan Harris, CEO, Apture


5:45pm
Ballroom 1
Fireside Chat: Innovation in High-Tech
Tony Perkins, CEO, AlwaysOn
Vivek Ranadive, CEO, TIBCO

6:05pm
Ballroom 1 Keynote: Who's Got Your Back Right Now?
Keith Ferrazzi, CEO, Ferrazzi Greenlight & Best-selling Author, "Who's Got Your Back" & "Never Eat Alone"

6:20pm--6:40pm
Ballroom 1 Success in the Tech World: A Handshake Still Beats a Blackberry
A Networking Session for Attendees, Hosted by Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Host: Tina Seelig, Executive Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program


7:00pm
Ballroom 1

-- Reception in Dohrmann Grove --

The reception will begin after the networking session concludes.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

8:00am Ballroom 1	Fireside Chat Gordon Davidson, Chairman, Fenwick & West Vinod Khosla, Managing General Partner, Khosla Ventures
8:30am Ballroom 1	VC Survey results & VC Video   Steve Morgan, Partner, KPMG
8:55am Ballroom 1	Angel Investing Success Stories  Companies & strategies that work --and how to pitch (and find) the right Angel  Moderator: Sam Angus, Partner, Fenwick & West   Ron Conway, Founder, Angel Investors LP  Rob Hayes, Partner, First Round Capital  Joyce Chung, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures  Aydin Senkut, Founder & President, Felicis Ventures
9:40am Ballroom 1	CEO Showcase Session    Jeffrey Nortman, COO, PreVisite    Kamal Hassan, CEO, Skymeter    Ben Hayman, CEO, Magic Studio Network    Martin Horne, CEO, IPeak Networks    Hussein Fazal, President & CEO, AdParlor    Nick Koudas, CEO & Co-founder, Sysomos    Enrico Beltramini, CEO, Italian World Channel    Michael Stein, CEO, Darkstrand    Jamie Brenzel, CEO, Data Deposit Box    Lorenzo Carver, CEO, Liquid Scenarios    Mike Glickenhaus, CEO, VMIX    Joe Ward, CEO, Groovy Corporation    AO Exclusive: Groovy Corporation Announcement This session will be emcee'd by AO Contributing Editor Ezra Roizen.The following industry experts will comment, and thereafter CEOs will be available for 30-minutes of Q&A and demos in the lobby. Ed Lambert, SVP, Bridge Bank
11:15am Ballroom 1	The NYSE, Technology & Liquidity  Larry Leibowitz, Group EVP, Head of US Markets & Global Technology, NYSE
11:25am Ballroom 1	Liquidity in the Innovation Economy in 2009 and Beyond Are IPOs set for an uptick? What role will M & A play? What will Tech Investment Banks Look Like Post-Meltdown?  Moderator: Hale Boggs, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips  Jason Hutchinson, Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey  David Lavallee, Managing Director & Co-founder, Revolution Partners  Ethan Topper, CEO, Union Square Advisors  Bob McCooey, SVP, NASDAQ OMX  Paul Kwan, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
11:25am Ballroom 2	CEO Showcase - Wireless    Michael Powers, CEO, Mpowerplayer    Giuseppe Staffaroni, President & CEO, Promptu    Vishal Gurbuxani, Co-founder, Mobclix    Alan Masarek, CEO, Quickoffice    Alex Quilici, CEO, YouMail    Jeff Hilbert, President & COO, WiSpry   Jorge Gonzalez, CEO, LynxSolutions During this session the following industry experts will comment, and thereafter CEOs will be available for 30-minutes of Q&A and demos in the lobby. Nagraj Kashyap, VP Ventures, Qualcomm
12:10pm Ballroom 1	VC in DC How can govt. policy help the private-company ecosystem? Can VCs & entrepreneurs tap into Obama's stimulus $$ and help create jobs?  Moderator: Elise Zoli, Partner, Goodwin Procter Nancy Pfund, Managing Partner, DBL Investors Joe Kennedy, CEO, Pandora Jon Sakoda, Partner, NEA Betsy Mullins, VP, Govt & Political Affairs, TechNet
12:55pm	Lunch
1:35pm Ballroom 1	Is the Internet optimizing Madison Avenue out of business -- or enabling a revolution?  As online advertising continues to ramp up, who will grab consumer eyeballs going forward and how will the behavior of media buyers evolve? Moderator: Rich LeFurgy, Founding Chairman, IAB & General Partner, Archer Konrad Feldman, CEO, Quantcast Frank Addante, CEO, the Rubicon Project Josh James, Co-founder & CEO, Omniture Jon Raj, Chief Digital Officer, OMD
2:20pm Ballroom 1	Silicon Valley in the New Millennium  Chief Geeks & VCs of the Old Guard lay out the New Software & Computing Agenda Moderator: Craig Menden, Partner, Sonnenschein Tom Malloy, Chief Software Architect, Adobe Norm Fogelsong, General Partner, Institutional Venture Partners Dan Scheinman, SVP, GM Media Solutions Group, Cisco   Fred Wang, General Partner, Trinity Ventures
3:05pm Ballroom 1	Is education finally a high-growth opportunity for entrepreneurs? How can high-tech enhance .edu? Is the innovation ecosystem ripe for edtech profits? Moderator: Michael Moe, co-founder & CEO, Next Global Advisors Mark Atkinson, CEO, Teachscape Ntiedo Etuk, CEO, Tabula Digita Bruce Kingma, Associate Provost for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Syracuse University James Shelton, Advisor to US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan & Former Program Director, Gates Foundation
3:50pm Ballroom 1	Beyond Facebook & Twitter: The Social-Media Future As social-media functions spread beyond dedicated platforms, what will be the greater impact on business & Web use? Moderator: Bambi Francisco, Founder & CEO, Vator.tv Gerry Campbell, CEO, Collecta Shervin Pishevar, CEO, Social Gaming Network Max Ventilla, Co-founder & CEO, Aardvark Clara Shih, CEO, Hearsay Labs; Creator of Faceconnector; Author, "The Facebook Era"
4:35pm Ballroom 1	Closing Remarks

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Eastern USA

    Claudio Barrientos
    claudio@alwayson-network.com
    203.570.9790

    Joshua Scherman
    josh@alwayson-network.com
    646.420.0074

Northern California/ Pacific Northwest

    Ryan Brenner
    ryan@alwayson-network.com
    650.346.4726

    Nathan Entrekin
    nathan@alwayson-network.com
    530.277.7600

    Greg Gausewitz
    greg@alwayson-network.com
    949.697.7495

Southern California

    Marc Sternberg
    marc@alwayson-network.com
    310.403.3330

Event Tickets
If you want to order your ticket by phone or inquire about group rates, contact:
    Michelle Hughes
    michelle@alwayson-network.com
    415.367.9538 x103

Program Information
If you have feedback on our program or would like to suggest speakers or panel topics, contact:
    Arden Pennell
    arden@alwayson-network.com
    917.499.8379

CEO Showcase Opportunity
Fifty top CEOs will have the opportunity to present their market strategies and business partnering objectives on the main stage at Summit at Stanford. Qualifying companies are either public or privately held and ideally come from one of the following industry sectors:

  • SaaS and Enterprise
  • Cloud and Infrastructure
  • Wireless
  • Consumer Internet
  • Digital Media
  • Greentech
  • Enabling Tools and Devices

For detailed information on the Summit at Stanford 250 nomination and selection process and the CEO Showcase opportunity please contact:

Ryan Brenner
ryan@alwayson-network.com
650.346.4726

Group Ticket Rates
If you want to order your ticket by phone or inquire about group rates, contact Michelle Hughes: michelle@alwayson-network.com 415.367.9538 ext 103

Summit at Stanford Hotel Information

Sheraton Palo Alto
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650.213.4252
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We look forward to any thoughts on how our program is shaping up and hope to see you at Summit at Stanford

AlwaysOn Network 2005 Innovation Summit: "The Giant Brain is US!"

God, I LOVE Stanford in July!  Just walking the campus and taking in the lovely sights raises one's IQ by at least 10% ... Wow, finally into the triple digits!!!

"The Giant Brain is US!"
Teilhard de Chardin posited the Omega Point, the culmination of the transformation of the Biosphere into the Noosphere, a transhuman consciousness composed of all the interacting minds on Earth.  John Perry Barlow said "The point of all evolution up to this stage is the creation of a collective organism of Mind."  And the predicted future event known as the Singularity is the point where our environment is changed by this evolving transhuman intelligence beyond the capability of pre-Singularity humans to understand ...

Welcome to the Always On 2005 Innovation Summit!

Adding to last year's theme of "Open Source Everything", this year the AO 2005 Innovation Summit motto is "The Giant Brain is US!"

The Giant Brain Speaks
Ok, Giant Brain ...  Whazzup?!  Well, I heard a few pithy quotes flying about during the AO 2005 Innovation Summit:

"... I hate technology ..."

"... Nobody cares whether it's Open Source or not ... Solaris is Open Source ..."

"... I've learned never to answer a question before it's asked ..."  [ Jerry Brown ]

"... You have to pretend to be in control ..." [ Andy Grove ]

"... Television is dead ... well almost ..." [ George Gilder ]

"... Going against Open Source is like going against gravity ..."

"... It's not a lock-in ... it's a LOVE In! ..."

"... It's not Kumbaya ... it's Capitalism! ..."

"... Let's be empiricists instead of idealists ..." [ Jaron Lanier ]

"... Bubbles precede build-outs ..."

"... History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes ..." [ "Mark Twain", aka Samuel Clemens, via Andy Kessler ]

"... Technologies are not simply inventions which people employ but are the means by which people are re-invented ..." [ Marshall McLuhan, via 'William' ]

"... Changing The Person, One World At A Time ..."  ['William' ]

And let's not forget Tim Draper's surprising dance moves during the Skype VideoPhone Theme Song.  Well actually maybe we should try to forget all that ... if possible.  Sorry about that, Giant Brain.

Giant Brain Television: Tyrant Tool or Smart Endpoint?
Another AO 2005 Innovation Summit tenet is "pushing all knowledge to the edge."  Ah, but "knowledge to the edge" means smarter endpoints, doesn't it?   Well maybe ... consider this Marshall McLuhan quote:

"... The peculiar and abstract manipulation of information is a means of creating wealth ..."

To me, this seems right in line with smarter endpoints, using knowledge at the edge.  It means smarter personalized content & communications, smarter targeted advertising media opportunities, and above all, raising the standards for smart user interactions.  All of this is great Innovation Summit fodder.  Especially the wealth part. And the peculiar part.

Here's what George Gilder says about Television, from his 1994 book, "Life After Television":

"Television is a tool of tyrants. Its overthrow will be a major force for freedom and individuality, culture and morality. That overthrow is at hand." (p 49)

George reaffirmed this position during his AO 2005 presentation, but I wonder what he might think of the Sony PSP?  What happens when television becomes another smart endpoint, a multimedia communications gateway and informational media command and control center?  Yeah, I know, then we would call it a laptop! ...

Bad Giant Brain.  No Posting to alt.pathogens.sequences!
Watching George Gilder and Bill Joy together on the same stage was highly entertaining.  George was both animated and adamant regarding how technology would be our path to 'out-innovating' our problems. George believes that the expression of our inherent creativity is some sort of a divine right.  However, Bill Joy was more concerned about posting the genetic sequences of pathogens on the Internet.  George's position is more comfortable for techies, and Bill's position alarms policy makers.  Obviously, Open Source doesn't apply to the genetic sequence of the polio virus.  Correct?  Luckily, Jaron Lanier was a moderating(!) influence on stage, calling for personal responsibility and ethical remedies.

What about other types of personal meta-data, besides your own personal genetic sequence?  From a user service policy perspective, personal meta-data regarding personal habits, behaviors, and preferences should be assumed closed unless volunteered under specific circumstances.  Emerging open standards like Attention.XML, unfortunately not mentioned during the panel discussions, can become a serious threat to user privacy if abused.   Luckily, there's plenty of attention being given to Attention.XML.  (Ouch, that one hurt the Giant Brain!)

Joe Kraus mentioned his experiences in Washington with DigitalConsumer.org and expressed dismay regarding Silicon Valley's apparent disregard for politics ... and how this position is simply not acceptable.  However, this could be juxtaposed against the fact that Mark Cuban is underwriting the Grokster legal expenses ... ah, but Mark is from Dallas, not Silicon Valley.  Yee-Haw, Howdy PARDNER!

Giant Brain Gets Smarter & Richer!
Speaking about smart endpoints, what about Smartphone 2010?  Well, that's only five years away, so our bet is a fully programmable (open source) tablet style device, with modular WiFi and other WAN options for multi-network access and smart home functionality.  Skype-enabled, of course.

Alice Gast, MIT VP for Research and Associate Provost, briefly described MIT's OpenCourseWare Project, which makes the content for over 1100 MIT courses readily available to anyone with an internet connection.  Our vote for best use of Open Source Media to date.

And would you believe an OpenYahoo!?  Me neither.  But apparently, this is the case ... and there are plenty of developer APIs to prove it.  Now, we do need to look at the fine print regarding the actual traffic service fees ... but more and more web services are being offered from large scale players to monetize web traffic in a variety of ways via affiliate / associate rev share programs.

Giant Brain Blogging for Fun & Profit
So what are the basic business models for blogging?  Mark Cuban says that if you are just blogging on a topic near and dear to your heart, forget about making any money ... just treat it as your avocation.  Since blogs are a form of media, media business models would seem relevant.  These models involve some mix of advertising, co-promotions, and premium service revenue models in order to be a sustainable media business.  Advertising models require significant traffic and targeted audience demographics to be effective monetarily.  Premium services and co-promotions require up-front capital investment prior to any cash flow.  Given these observations, aggregation and hosting service models seem the way to go ...

The AlwaysOn Network will launch GoingOn in the Fall of 2005, a new service that acts like a "network of networks" designed to leverage the existing AlwaysOn social network and additional networks that users may create and that are hosted by the GoingOn service.  This should provide some interesting targeted advertising revenue opportunities and other business development programs.

Giant Brain, What Was The Question?
When queried to give the ultimate answer that would explain "God, life, the universe, and everything", the supercomputer in Douglas Adams' classic "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" takes seven and a half million years to respond.  Nobody remembers the original question, but the ultimate answer is: 42.

A contest is held to see if anyone can come up with the original question. 

Final Winner:  "How many roads must a man walk down?"

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