Small world -- again!

One should track the small world events that happen...for example, the recent ones in my recollection:

- My prof., Dr. Michael Best who does work in ICT4D mentioned Dr. Eric Brewer the other day. Eric Brewer was the CTO (I think) for Inktomi back in the day. I spoke at a conference in which he was a keynote (Digital Hollywood 2001 - http://www.digitalhollywood.com/SJAgenda.html). Odd, especially since now Dr. Best and Dr. Brewer are in talks since Brewer is doing work as a prof at Berkeley in the ICT4D realm. Perhaps even more 'small worldish' is the fact that Rob Guyton, one of the co-founders of Inktomi was on the board of my company at the time, Pathfire (aka Video Networks). Rob, at the time, was a partner at the VC for Monarch Capital Partners in Atlanta.

I believe it was within a couple years of this particular event when things went way south, and Rob had to sell his jet and get a real job...but that's just my fuzzy recollection talking.

Oh, and if that's not a small enough world...

- Buddy of mine, Jim Pitkow, has been running a company Moreover Technologies for a couple of years. Great guy, good company. anyway, they recently were acquired by Verisign (way to go Jim!). We could go down the Verisign path (another buddy of mine recently left there to start an RFID company, go Mealling ((way off the beaten path, but Michael Mealing, Jim Pitkow and I had made a business plan that we sent to the Yuri Rubinsky literally days before his untimely death (http://www.darwinsys.com/history/yuri.html) -- cheers to Yuri)), Mealing had been working within Verisign's R&D for a couple of years -- parallel to that, Mike Cannon, one of my colleagues and co-co-founders of nuBridges -- well his wife worked for HO systems out of Savanah, which was purchased by Verisign a number of years ago). Okay, back to Moreover...yet another buddy of mine went to work for a local 24 hour news company and happened to mention Moreover as an interesting company -- small world.

Tiny, tiny world...