Interesting: March 2008 Archives

Microsoft researchers have done a very interesting study - archiving a huge amount of random IM conversations and analyzing them to find the average "distance" of any two randomly selected persons.  The data set is huge - 30 Billion conversations among 240 Million people.  And guess what - the average distance?  6.6 persons.  Amazing!

This interview with Matt Murphy, the partner at Kleiner  Perkins responsible for iFund, is pretty interesting.  It feels like the real deal to me - pretty different from the Facebook fund.  They are looking for the next big ideas, not zombie bite applications:

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9888320-7.html