Genesys XVIII

The 18th Annual Genesys Partners Venture Dinner — Gen XVIII– Monday night at the Union League Club in New York attracted more than 100 venture capitalists, investors, journalists, entrepreneurs, and industry executives. As always, Jim Kollegger — CEO of Genesys Partners and one of the pioneers of the information industry — was an elegant master […]

R2D2 – WiFi – 1xRTT (Part 2)

A high school teacher named Kristen wrote to say that her students had been using some web pages from the patrickWeb blog as a source of information for their studies and projects. The posting below is one of the pages they found useful. The story was originally posted on June 10, 2003. One of the […]

Linkedin

I remember being a bit skeptical when LinkedIn first got started. Although I cannot say that I have personally benefited from being a member, I have found it a pleasure to help others by linking them to someone that I know. The concept is a good one: linking people together and enabling linkees to find […]

Tsunami

In December 1994 I gave a talk at Internet World in Washington, D.C. about how I saw the future of the Internet. The next day I got an email from a professor of epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh saying he was in violent agreement. Dr. Ron LaPorte insisted that I come to Pittsburgh and […]

patrickWeb Store – Books John has read

I have been experimenting with the Amazon aStore and decided to add books that I have read. After I complete a book, I will add it to the patrickWeb aStore so to make it easy for followers of my blog to buy books I have enjoyed, if they choose to. The first book I will […]