There used to be more information on his website that I remember reading, but this thread will probably tell you what they do: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3012956

I do remember the lament of Fohr on investment (re: social web startups vs hardware / (non vaporware)), and though I can't find the relevant thread, I am glad Fohr is still kicking around in the last two years since I last read about your troubles :)

Well, the particular system I described is for an operations management system we built for our film studio (Fohr).

We're in the process of packaging that up as a standalone product/service and building a business around it. As one of the commenters noted, we failed to get funding for the studio itself last year, and this is Plan B.

We've got some crazy technology in it, and I'm hoping to get some papers written up describing it all. AFAIK, it's the only Google Spanner-like design outside of Google right now.