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3/23/2009
Tim Geithner Separated at Birth
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Here's someone - actor Tony Goldwyn - who's not an investment banker or Bank CEO who's actually gonna make money from the Geith...
1/01/2009
Hacking the Internet with your Playstation Cluster
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Security researchers have created a rogue certificate that would allow them (if they were malicious) to perform man in the middle attacks ...
12/16/2008
Christmas Gift Idea
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Need a gift idea for a 30-something techie who has everything? How about this: Mio Knight Rider GPS ? This GPS device talks like the ca...
12/06/2008
Who Knew?
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Apparently Free Credit Reports aren't REALLY free?!? The people at SmartMoney clue us in . Who could have known that something delive...
11/30/2008
Google Server Secrets Revealed
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An unexpected side benefit of industries need to be seen as "green": Google has put up a bunch of pages detailing their datacente...
9/05/2008
NFL Games of Week 1 on DirecTV Sunday Ticket
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This year, I bit the bullet and got DirecTV Sunday Ticket, which allows you to watch ANY NFL game you choose on Sunday. They show them all...
9/04/2008
Behavioral Targeting Ad Networks Hit By Politics
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Reportedly, NebuAd's and Phorm's ISP customers are slowing trials of their ad systems based on deep packet inspection. This is whe...
8/31/2008
Recession 2008
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Here's what the "recession" looks like on a lovely Sunday afternoon at the Apple store in Palo Alto.
8/02/2008
Insane Bandwidth
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I had to move from my old DSL enabled office, and I rented a new place which had just installed wiring for Comcast cable. The cable guy co...
7/28/2008
Chatfield Reveals the Key Secret of AdWords
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Jeremy C. has a post about ad auctions . At the end he says something that you may have heard before, but never as clearly or succinctly p...
7/11/2008
Congresswoman Speier says: Lower Speed Limit
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Jackie Speier (D-CA) introduces a bill to lower the speed limit from 65 to 60, claiming it will save fuel. She's a new congresswoman, ...
7/07/2008
Prediction: This will actually happen.
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Funniest South Park bit since the World of Warcraft parodies. Apparently the southpark guys now have their own video distribution, as ...
6/20/2008
Internet Nutballs Explained by Jay Leno
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The internet naturally gives rise to nutballs - people who are so obsessed with some random hobby. This article sums up the personalities b...
6/19/2008
Yahoo and Kafka: Separated at Birth?
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Another insane Kafka-esque email from the Yahoo Search Marketing API team. I get about two of these a week ( another example ), and they r...
6/12/2008
How Many Pooches Can Yahoo Screw?
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Ugh. Sometimes the end does come with a bang and whimper at the same time. Yahoo is giving up in search. The stock lost 10% today, and ...
6/05/2008
Sad Proof that Vista is a Failure
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Windows Vista was officially released (after over 11months of delay) on Jan 30, 2007. It was critically panned (by me for example ). Now...
Google's Downfall: Building a New Campus
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Uh-oh. The surest sign that the decline of a tech-power is nigh: Google is going to build a new HQ. Or at least they are going to do a...
6/03/2008
Yahoo's Main Problem: It's a Bureaucracy
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After the saga of Yahoo is over, many people will find reasons as to why Yahoo failed. I know the real reason: it's a boring, impersona...
5/21/2008
Windows is Not Cloudy
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Amazon EC2 is a hyped technology that is actually exceeding it's expectations. It's cloud computing, and when Amazon added recent...
5/18/2008
Google: "Facebook You Ignorant Slut"
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Corporate blog cat fight: Google Code spells out in excessive detail why Facebook is lying about their justification for blocking Google ...
5/16/2008
Philipp on Microsoft Live
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Ouch : "Of the three major search engines, only Microsoft’s Live.com – if you want to call it a major search engine – returns much w...
5/15/2008
Why Facebook Apps Mostly Suck
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Why are all the apps on Facebook trivial, crappy or spammy? Facebook originally launched the app platform with a lot of talk about how to ...
5/12/2008
There are Millions of Great Ideas In the Air
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Malcolm Gladwell reports that Nathan Myhrvold assembles geniuses to create inventions, and it's working like crazy. But then, in Au...
5/08/2008
Now THIS is a Rant
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If you want to see what a good old-fashioned internet rant looks and sounds like, Joel Spolsky unloads it for you. He's talking about...
The Money Quote on Microsoft
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Mary Jo Foley nails why Microsoft is continuing to decline. Foley: There's always been this dichotomy between "Bill's guys...
5/06/2008
Andreessen Loves Leverage
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Marc Andreessen has a post praising dual-class stock structures . To me this means he's recommending that public tech companies create...
5/05/2008
Search Amazon Prime - Revamped
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Update: The new URL is http://searchaprime.com . Amazon asked me to not use "amazon" in the URL. I rewrote searchamazonprime.co...
5/02/2008
This is Battelle on Twitter
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These cracked me up so much, I'm just gonna rip them right off Andrew's blog : Here's Andrew's impersonation of John Batte...
Forever Stamps - Save Yourself Some Hassle
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Did you know the post office is selling stamps now for 41 cents that will continue to work after the rate goes up to 42 cents on May 12. ...
4/28/2008
Is Mobile the Real Threat to Google?
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Business Week says that mobile phone usage will be Google's undoing. This could be right - a change in how people use the web. We kn...
Andrew Goodman on The New Secret to AdWords
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Andrew Goodman of PageZero Media sends out a summary / soft-promo piece in email which contains two paragraphs that sum up the changes in t...
4/25/2008
Barry Ritzholtz on ComScore
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I missed this, but it's good cynicism about ComScore and Nielsen. Media companies are basically trying to pump up their numbers. They ...
4/18/2008
ComScore Wrong Again - As Usual
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ComScore ( SCOR ) is taking some heat for convincing Wall St. that Google's year over year click growth was very low. Kedrosky thinks i...
4/17/2008
Google Q1 2008 Results - Why the Bears were wrong
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Google prospers while many were predicting doom . Gross revenue exactly in line with consensus--$5.2 billion, up 42%. Net revenue $3.7 bi...
Mobile Market - Not Web Ready Yet
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Russell Beattie, once a somewhat famous web2.0 type blogger is shutting down his mobile startup after 1 year. He's in debt and looking...
What the Hell Happened to Robert Wagner?
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Just 6 years ago, he was playing #2 in an Austin Powers movie. Now he's pushing reverse mortgages for seniors on an informercial. Ro...
4/15/2008
A Life of Arbitrage
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The internet enables the arbitrageur . More and more people are going to make their living doing arbitrage. Example: a guy who became pro...
4/14/2008
Google App Engine on Amazon EC2
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I've been planning to mess with Google App pretty soon. This dude ported the Google App Engine SDK to Amazon EC2. No question that A...
The King of Automated Content Generation
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The New York Times reports on Philip Parker , who is a business professor at Insead, and is the most-published author on Amazon, with over 2...
4/11/2008
Using an iPhone to Coordinate a Protest
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The protesters trying to track down the Olympic torch in San Francisco used iPhones to get updates as the police re-configured the route of...
3/21/2008
Top 10 Paintings / Art You Must See in Florence
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Ten works of art in Florence that will blow you away. Most of this art is in Florence due to the legacy of the Medici family, and is locat...
3/12/2008
The Google Button
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When kids design a keyboard for a laptop , the important stuff gets it's own key. And really, what keyboard shouldn't have it'...
3/11/2008
Optimizing PDF files for Search Engines
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Marketing Sherpa tells you how to make sure your PDFs can be indexed by Google. It's a set of basic tips (make sure you have a recent ...
AdWords Use of Search History
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Wow. Jeremy Chatfield is one of the few search engine marketers ( SEM ) bloggers who still publishes substantive research on Google Adwor...
2/28/2008
Top Keywords / Search Terms on Google
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Levi at Wordze is giving away a list of over 100,000 keywords that are popular Google searches. It's an excel file with each keyword a...
2/20/2008
Great Ideas for Your Next Science Project
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This renews my faith in American education. Plus it's hilarious. http://www.photobasement.com/41-hilarious-science-fair-experiments/ ...
How Yahoo / Microsoft Actually Makes Sense
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There's a lot of press out there predicting that the incipient Microsoft takeover of Yahoo is doomed to fail. It's the dominant m...
2/16/2008
How to Raise a Child like Helmut Newton
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If you don't know, Helmut Newton is a world famous photographer, who mostly takes sexual pictures of beautiful women. Anyways, here...
Great Websites in Internet History, Part I
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This post is the first in an irregular series. Seminal site of the day: here. Feel free to suggest other historically important classic...
2/11/2008
Microsoft / Yahoo - The Best Coverage
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Henry Blodget has been en fuego with his coverage of the Microsoft / Yahoo deal . Today he adds this little nugget: Because of the over...
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