Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Is it a coincidence that Google phased out it's paid referrals program for Firefox, effective at the end of August, and introduces its own browser on September 2nd?
I was playing around in the adsense management area today and saw that the referrals area was still there. Even though there was ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
I've got to say that I really enjoy reading books on the Amazon Kindle. I was lucky enough to get one for Christmas this year and have just been tearing through books on it ever since. It just seems really fitting to read as many sci-fi books as possible on ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
A spat of stories coming out here and here about how Google is no longer the greatest thing since sliced bread. My personal opinion is that this was bound to happen eventually, it's actually taken longer than I expected.
I saw a story a few days ago that I wished I ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Wow, the narrator makes all the difference. We picked up a different book for the drive home from Thanksgiving, "Basic Black" by Cathie Black on business. The 6 hour trip was over before we knew it. We've still got 3 hours left in the book, but a good audiobook makes ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
I recieved a nice little notice from PG&E a couple of weeks ago that they would be doing some routine maintenance in my neighborhood and that they would need to shut the power off for several hours to complete it. The letter was a nice heads up that the power ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Well, this makes it twice now, that Webshots has been sold while I was working there. This looks like it will be the last time that I will get to go through a sale of this property since I won't be making the move out to Cleveland to join the ...
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
There seems to be some reluctance on the part of the automakers to push plug-in hybrids. There has been some research out there showing that by using plug-ins there really isn't a energy benefit. All that you are doing is shifting the source of the energy from one ...
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Over at flickr, they had a little downtime and decided to post some numbers about how impressive they are while they're down.
12,000 photos a second at peak times
2,070,075 photos in 24 hours!
8.5 million registered members
10 million unique tags
Some pretty impressive numbers, but nothing too crazy compared to the several other ...
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
I love using Google Video for their Google Eng Edu videos. This series of ~1hour long video of talks given on all sorts of techie topics is great. I love being able to get an inside access to these presentations. It's just like being at school again and having the ...
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Friday, January 5th, 2007
There was an interesting piece by Cody Willard from the thestreet.com posted the other day about the cracks forming in Google. I feel the article managed to get Google's stance on Net Neutrality completely wrong. I do agree though that there are some cracks forming in Google's reputation. The general ...
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Monday, November 20th, 2006
Sunday night I got a nice little heads up while cruising through my Digg feed. Apparently in Mac Mail there is a nice little button that you can put in the toolbar, using customize, that allows you to send back user unknown bounce messages to people that send you spam. ...
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Thursday, November 16th, 2006
Since my wife and I picked up a HD tv at the beginning of the year and started watching most of our primetime shows in HD I've found it interesting that the uptake in ads in HD is incredibly low. HD, when done right, has an incredible wow factor and ...
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
There have been a whole load of posts around the internet from all sorts of respected people within the startup ecosystem, but it just can't be said enough.
IT'S ALL ABOUT EXECUTION
Anyone can have an idea in their shower. They could envision the coolest thing ever, but if they don't turn ...
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
While I've titled this blog "Redwood City Startup" which very accurately describes my focus, I've actually found it rather difficult to write a whole lot about about that topic. My time and focus is definitely invested in running a startup in Redwood City, but with not being a founder of ...
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Looks like there's been an update to the Google Email Update application. I'm now getting about 20x the volume for a series of terms that I track. The system seems to be much more responsive to actual updates on the web. In the past I would actually question whether the ...
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