The Standard has a tale of dot com greed and woe that will surely be repeated many times in years to come.
startupfailures.com is an online support community for people who were involved in failed startups. It’s actually a for-profit company, doomed to failure itself most likely. At least they have a ready and growing market, which is more than you can say for many of the other dot com dead men walking.
If you thought the Etoy debacle was bad, wait until you hear this. Mattel’s lawyers have ordered Matt Levallee to hand over the domain name mattl.com. Give me a freaking break.
Tim O’Reilly on the troubles at LinuxCare and taking a broad view of “service” when it comes to building a company around open source software. There’s a lot of cool historical information in the article, and some great suggestions for people in the software business.