I came across this article while I was browsing the physical Seattle Magainze and noticed that it features Marcelo.

Quoted: Marcelo Calbucci could be raking in big bucks at Microsoft—fine-tuning the tech behemoth’s Internet strategy between cappuccinos and occasional workout breaks at the nearest campus health club. But three years ago he left this job and its accompanying work life.

Quoted: In such an environment, the only meaningful defense for Web 2.0 app developers and startups is their ability to build a community in large numbers. The data of a community is the only defense, and perhaps the only real value, in a Web 2.0 company. And unless they can achieve this quickly, many Web 2.0 apps/startups are going to meander into mediocrity, only to see their ideas inspire larger players to roll out their own versions of their apps.

Sampa launches its redesign today.

Quoted: Sampa, the personal homepage creator for families, has raised $1M in Series A financing from a group of individuals including Geoff Entress and former executives from Microsoft, Netscape, and Lightsurf.

One of the founders used to lead the SMS team at Microsoft. SMS was the sister team to MOM -- the team I used to work on.

Quoted: Chronus is an exciting startup building highly innovative Web 2.0 products that help people across the globe to realize their goals and aspirations. The company was founded by strong and experienced leaders with several decades of combined experience at Microsoft and Oracle.

Quoted: Spending too much time thinking about trends and "spaces" is a great way for an entrepreneurial team to go right off the rails and bring another derivative product to market, which the market then promptly ignores.

Quoted: For the purpose of this post, we define a generic network as one that exists primarily to keep in touch and a specialized network is one where people are brought together based on the specific common interest. According to this definition Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and even LinkedIn are considered generic social networks. del.icio.us, Flickr, LibraryThing and Flixster, on the other hand, represent specialized networks.

newsvine (also a seattle-based startup) relaunched this afternoon.

Quoted: Seattle-based news site Newsvine will relaunch this afternoon with significant changes to the user experience. They're calling the release Evergreen. Among the changes: ...

We're #8.

Quoted: #8 BlueDot (Rank: 11749)