Comments on: Roundup: Cognition’s search, Jaxtr, TrustedID, AppleTV, Palm’s sale http://venturebeat.com/2007/03/20/roundup-cognitions-search-jaxtr-trustedid-appletv-palms-sale/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:11:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Larry http://venturebeat.com/2007/03/20/roundup-cognitions-search-jaxtr-trustedid-appletv-palms-sale/comment-page-1/#comment-8683 Larry Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:06:43 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/03/20/roundup-cognitions-search-jaxtr-trustedid-appletv-palms-sale/#comment-8683 One follow up to the TrustedID blurb. if Mr. Ahmad stepped down because "he’s an idea guy" preferring to work with early startups, then why did he join a mature Napster to gut the company? On Omar's LinkedIn profile he describes himself as a Napster "hatchet man" (his words). It seems likely that Omar was pushed/canned and is still on the board of TrustedID because he was a founder, owns a bunch of stock and controls a board seat through share vote. (you can see his Napster job description on his Full LinkedIn profile; public one here http://www.linkedin.com/in/thebigkahuna). One follow up to the TrustedID blurb. if Mr. Ahmad stepped down because “he’s an idea guy” preferring to work with early startups, then why did he join a mature Napster to gut the company? On Omar’s LinkedIn profile he describes himself as a Napster “hatchet man” (his words).

It seems likely that Omar was pushed/canned and is still on the board of TrustedID because he was a founder, owns a bunch of
stock and controls a board seat through share vote.

(you can see his Napster job description on his Full
LinkedIn profile; public one here
http://www.linkedin.com/in/thebigkahuna).

]]> By: mathew http://venturebeat.com/2007/03/20/roundup-cognitions-search-jaxtr-trustedid-appletv-palms-sale/comment-page-1/#comment-8666 mathew Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:01:18 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/03/20/roundup-cognitions-search-jaxtr-trustedid-appletv-palms-sale/#comment-8666 natural language search is asinine - no one searches by writing proper sentences http://mattishness.blogspot.com/2007/03/natural-language-search-asinine-or-scam.html natural language search is asinine – no one searches by writing proper sentences

http://mattishness.blogspot.com/2007/03/natural-language-search-asinine-or-scam.html

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