Dion Hinchcliffe has an interesting post up on ZDNet titled Is IBM making enterprise mashups respectable? Dion enumerates five styles of mashups: presentation, client-side data, client-side software, server-side software, and server-side data. It’s a good segmentation and useful framework for describing integration layers between web services.

I’ve invested in over 50 angel deals in the past 12 years. Several have been big winners for me, a few have done ok, and some have failed. Many are still active – including several that I did before I started making venture capital investments in 1996. Recently – a company I invested in 11 years ago – Harmonix Music Systems – was acquired by Viacom / MTV for $175 million. The deal closed last week and the money has been flowing to the Harmonix shareholders. And – it’s plenty – as Harmonix only raised $10 million over the life of the company. The reactions from a few of the angels I helped recruit to the deal included “incredible outcome – I had forgotten I had shares in the company”, “Brad, are you sure you got the decimal point in the right place”, and simply “holy shit.”

After seeing Borat last weekend, Warren and I were debating which scenes were real and which scenes were faked. Warren apparently stayed up late researching it, but if he’d waited a week he could have read the Slate story titled What’s real in “Borat”? The reactions of the people involved to the Slate reporter are fascinating.

Earlier this week Intel announced Suite Two – an appliance that integrates NewsGator’s Enterprise Server product with SixApart’s Movable Type, SocialText’s wiki, and SimpleFeed corporate feed management. The products are being integrated by SpikeSource who will also handle maintenance and support. Another step in NewsGator’s “buy and deploy our RSS aggregator products however you – the customer – wants” strategy. Charlie Wood wrote up a quick anecdote about how he quickly integrated his Spanning Salesforce and Spanning Feed Builder products with Salesforce.com and NewsGator’s Enterprise Server to help a marcomm manager to send updates about her company’s marketing events from Salesforce.com direct to her executives BlackBerries. The company is already using Salesforce.com and NewsGator Enterprise Server – Charlie’s glue connected the pieces together and got things up an running in 30 minutes. Very neat.

The FeedBurner Venture Capital Network continues to expand with the additions of new VC bloggers Santo Politi from Spark Capital and Susan Wu from Charles River Ventures. I’m on the board of Me.dium with Santo and we’ve been having a good time working together – expect plenty of deep and insightful stuff from his blog.

Dean Karnazes just finished running 50 marathons in 50 days (one in each state.) He finished up with the New York Marathon on Sunday and then didn’t know what to do with himself on Monday, so he ran the New York Marathon backwards. On Tuesday, he still didn’t know what to do with himself so he went for a 26.2 mile run. Yesterday he decided to run home – from New York to San Francisco.

One of my portfolio companies recently put together a short video for a recent company meeting. The video consisted of a series of questions for each board member and a few key advisors and clients. One of the questions was “what could they improve?” Following is my answer: The pretzels were tasty.

BarCamp Boulder is happening on Friday (7pm – ?) and Saturday (9am – 5pm) with a party afterwards at Me.dium’s offices at 1738 Pearl Street, Boulder, CO. The attendee list looks great. If you are in town and like BarCamp events, check it out.

I’m a huge Pink Floyd fan (I can sing Dark Side of the Moon forward and backward and the worms still eat into my brain on a regular basis.) A friend sent me the Pink Floyd Back Catalog the other day. I just ordered my own copy from Amazon ( Art Poster Metal Framed Print – Pink Floyd-Back Catalog – Artist: unknown- Poster Size: 24 X 36). Beautiful.