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...that even caving was portrayed as an act of bold leadership. Above all, he has defended his decision to target Saddam Hussein even when some of the basic premises of the war turned out to be wrong. He has continued to argue that he has set Iraq on the path to democracy even when others say its future is so much in doubt...
These are the premises of three recent movies, Girl on the Bridge, Man on the Train and Intimate Strangers, by the French director Patrice Leconte, and one feels obliged to advise Hollywood to beat a path to his door. The man invents better mousetraps than anyone in the American industry--entertaining and deadly little contraptions that are also slyly muted melodramas about the way apparent opposites do not so much attract as join forces to muddle through life's inevitable messiness...
...Brydon learned a valuable lesson--it pays to know who your friends' friends are--and got the inspiration for his newest venture: Visible Path, a company that develops social-networking applications for businesses. Also called relationship-capital management, the software helps people take advantage of their friends, enabling them to see hidden connections two or three degrees away in order to find new clients, new sales and even new jobs. It's Friendster for the corporate crowd: deals vs. dates...
Though the market is small, estimated at below $50 million, social-networking companies are suddenly attracting attention from the ultimate Silicon Valley networkers, venture capitalists. VCs are throwing money at broad-based public networks such as LinkedIn, as well as at specialized, closed systems like Visible Path, used by companies to share employee contacts behind the corporate firewall. Spoke Software, which offers both kinds of networks, already has more than $20 million in funding. Ryze, a public network, and Interface Software, a closed system used mostly by law firms, are out of the VC loop but in the money--both...
Some companies are using perks to try to overcome these obstacles. 3i Group PLC, a global venture-capital firm that uses Interface Software, is starting to tie bonuses to the number of contacts employees share with colleagues--and, of course, how much business results. Visible Path has tried to alleviate privacy concerns by having the intermediary remain anonymous. The person seeking an introduction sends an e-mail through the system without knowing who the go-between is; the recipient is free to ignore the request...