When last we heard from Michael Robertson, the slick-tongued domain-name speculator who likes to pose as a businessman, he was starting Dealipedia, a website where people are meant to disclose who made how much off mergers, acquisitions, and other business exits. Nowhere to be found: How much money Robertson made from a recent asset sale of Linspire, his failing Linux startup, to Xandros, another Linux concern. Because it was an asset sale, not an outright acquisition, Linspire still exists on paper, holding whatever proceeds it made from the sale. Kevin Carmony, Linspire's former CEO and a current shareholder, is loudly agitating to have Robertson disclose how much money Robertson made from the deal. Sorry, Kevin, I'm pretty sure the answer is "none." Because if Robertson had made anything, he'd be talking it up to anyone who'll listen. (Photo by Digital Tipping Point)

Did you know Michael Robertson personally made $115 million from the sale of MP3.com? If not, he's glad to remind you on his new site, Dealipedia. Robertson, whose main skill seems to be picking up timely domain names and concocting the appearance of a business around them, expects that a sufficient number of insiders will fill in the details of mergers and acquisitions for him, creating a database to challenge the likes of Dow Jones and Dun & Bradstreet. Right. The real service Dealipedia provides is giving people an anonymous way to let the world know just how wealthy they are. For the braggarts of the world, it offers plausible deniability. Jason Calacanis's details are already in there.