Matt Marshall, long of the SJMN and SiliconBeat, has launched his own site, VentureBeat. Congrats on going solo, Matt! Matt is working with FM, and I'm proud to be associated with him and his work….
The man hours devoted to separating me from my Kiehls face lotion. I mean, my goodness. If I wanted to destroy a plane with two ounces of face lotion, why, I might just figure out a way to add water later while in the air. At SFO, there were…
The man hours devoted to separating me from my Kiehls face lotion. I mean, my goodness. If I wanted to destroy a plane with two ounces of face lotion, why, I might just figure out a way to add water later while in the air.
At SFO, there were at least ten full-time lotion swipers at work when I went through. I wonder, did they hire new staff? Repurpose others? There are at least ten more security screening sites like the one I was at in SFO, so that means 100 full time lotion swipers. At SFO alone. All day.
Read MoreNot only is Live Search in advanced stages of testing, some influential folks like its video search. And MSFT is making the inevitable noises about launching an AdSense competitor (hello, about time…)….
I was in the Austin airport today and a clip on CNN caught my ear. It was a piece on the "secret Senator" who had held up a bill, otherwise supported by a majority, which would require the creation of a database of government spending, in particular contracts, loans,…
Bloggers, however, made a huge fuss, CNN and its ilk caught onto the story. But, well, will the bill pass or not?
My money is on not.
Growing Google library Google is now permitting free PDF downloading and printing of classic and obscure books—in addition to out-of-copyright books. However, Google will still only provide snippets around search terms for materials under copyright, unless permission is extended by the publisher. link (Gary Price timely points out other…
Geotagging Flickr, more like an explosion
Flickr added a geotagging feature that in its first day gained more than 1.2 million geotagged photos. As you might guess, they’re thinking very hard about how to scale “over a million new photos being added on a good day… [and the] billions of bits of data that go into the search (more than half a billion tags alone), along with privacy controls, group membership, and so on.”
My partner Tim today announces a new event in the Web 2 world – the Web 2.0 Expo. From his post: …there's a long way between the big framing ideas of web 2.0 and their practical application. What's more, the Web 2.0 Conference sold out last year and is…
My partner Tim today announces a new event in the Web 2 world – the Web 2.0 Expo. From his post:
…there’s a long way between the big framing ideas of web 2.0 and their practical application. What’s more, the Web 2.0 Conference sold out last year and is on an invitation-only basis this year, with far greater demand than the event can accommodate. And that’s why O’Reilly and CMP have today announced a second, companion conference, the Web 2.0 Expo, to be held April 15-18, 2007 at the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco. The Expo will include a four-day hands-on technical conference and tutorials as well as a trade show floor.
Every big idea needs implementation. We saw the need for a second event that focuses on how to actually build effective Web 2.0 applications. We’re tackling not just Web 2.0 as strategy but also design, programming, operations, and viral marketing — the elements of execution that will ultimately separate the winners from the me-too companies in the space.
Read MoreGoogle CEO Eric Schimdt has joined Apple's board. Given the way the Valley hovers over every possible implication of both companies' actions, there's plenty of conspiracies to be theorized here. I covered Apple as a cub reporter, and learned how to deal with a company populated by brilliant, odd,…
Google CEO Eric Schimdt has joined Apple’s board. Given the way the Valley hovers over every possible implication of both companies’ actions, there’s plenty of conspiracies to be theorized here.
I covered Apple as a cub reporter, and learned how to deal with a company populated by brilliant, odd, and flabbergasting folks. In corporate history, logo color choice, and brand values, Apple shares much in common with Google, that is for sure. But I’m not sure there’s too much to be made of this connection – yet.
Read MoreMan, do I know the pain he went through to make this decision. It's very hard to watch something you really love and worked so hard to build continue without you, but when you are not an owner in some way, it's harder still to understand why someone else…
Best of luck, Danny, I am certain you will do screamingly well in whatever you do next!
Marissa Mayer speaking in Scotland over the weekend: "We're computer scientists," she said. "We're not brilliant storytellers or content creators."…
“We’re computer scientists,” she said. “We’re not brilliant storytellers or content creators.”
Yahoo made news when it nabbed eBay's business in the US, but today Google announced it had secured eBay's international business, for both text ads as well as click for call. Tit, meet tat….
