I saw on GMSV this morning that Google's launching a traffic app that genrously allows each of us to contribute our little bit of data, our current location to be precise, and aggregtes it all into informaiton about traffic flow on surface streets.  Sounds useful if you frequently find yourself wondering if getting off at the next exit and heading to El Camino would be the way to go.  Gee wilikers though, I wonder what Google could do with all that location data.  Oh yeah, now I remember, they'll be selling it.  This is another application of Google's basic business model: provide a service that, when used by you and me, provides them with product to sell to advertisers.  But don't worry, you'll be anonymous as they serve location based ads to your phone. 

Nothing particularly recruiting related here except that I found the choice of Eric Schmidt quixotic at the time and find his continued success at Google fascinating. 

Well, it took more than a year and another $9 million for Joe Golden not to be able to find a buyer for ConSentry. It is unfortunate that not only will the investors and founders not profit from the years of work on this technology, but also that nobody else will. It seems we've reached the limits of optimism at five years, each one of which was supposed to be the Year of the NAC. Either that or the promising-but-not-actually-viable solutions that Cisco and Microsoft keep telling IT departments about have succeeded in attenuating demand enough to thin the herd of potential competitors/acquisition targets. The real question none of these NAC companies was ever willing to seriously ask was always whether NAC is a product or a feature. It looks like ConSentry finally went with the latter but wasn't able to find a partner of whom to be such a feature.