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Tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen and business partner Ben Horowitz are getting into the venture capital game.

It's finally official: Marc Andreessen has crossed over to what he once called "the dark side" and is now a venture capitalist.

It's tough to find two nickels to rub together these days, but Marc Andreessen and partner Ben Horowitz have just raised $300 million to begin an Internet venture capital fund.

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Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape and co-founder of Opsware, and Ben Horowitz, also co-founder of Opsware, are launching on Monday a new venture fund, cleverly named Andreessen Horowitz .

Pioneering technology publisher Tim O'Reilly tells us that "government as a platform" is the definition of government 2.0. To explain to a non-technical audience what this means, he explains that his company specializes in finding innovations at the edge and amplifying them, through events, publishing and market research.

Tim O'Reilly is telling the Aspen Ideas Festival crowd about the history of Government 2.0. He starts it with Carl Malamud and SEC data online; next, he cites the Brits and TheyWorkForYou.com ; gives Sunlight Foundation their due; and says that then-candidate Obama's claim that we would connect people and ideas to transform government as the final ...

Want to give the Obama White House an earful on how to open up government? Want to sort through the latest NASA images of Mars, use a text message to donate to Pakistani refugees or help transportation officials design new bus stops? Your government now has the tools to let you do that.

Want to know exactly where all those ducats you reluctantly turned over to our Uncle in Washington are going? Things just got a little clearer today, at least in terms of our tech taxes.

A PC in every home and workplace, a smart phone in every hand, all connected 24/7 to the hundreds of millions of other people actively participating online via blogs, social networks, Twitter and multiplayer games.

There's a collision coming between the online and physical worlds, say Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle .

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Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle discussed their vision and nomenclature for the next iteration of the web in a webinar last Thursday: I believe the recording will be available online sometime this week, slides are above.

I finally made it to Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference with my record intact.

Is the 'Baby' Web Growing up? With sensors driving applications, Tim O'Reilly says the Web is growing up fast as a more sentient platform.

It's been five years now that we've begun to understand what Web 2.0 is , starting back in 2003.

For nearly 100 years, we have maintained a thesaurus to tag The New York Times. The thesaurus consists of over a million terms organized into five controlled vocabularies: subjects, personal names, organizations, geographic locations and the titles of creative works .

Thomas Webster has been appointed CEO of Hodder Education, succeeding Philip Walters, who is retiring from the role.

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Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos says the Kindle eventually will read more than just Amazon's electronic book formats.