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Yet another reminder that every day is a gift. Yesterday my editor’s mom passed away unexpectedly. It brought back a bunch of memories of my own mom’s death just about a year ago. We might not get videos up this week and that’s fine with me. Maryam and I are thinking of Rocky. Not much else to say.
Zoli Erdos follows up my Autism post with a lengthy, thoughtful, and well-researched post. Thanks Zoli for doing that.
It’s 2:15 a.m. here in Cancun, we leave at 9:15 a.m. for the airport to travel back home. See ya then. In the meantime, catch up on my link blog. I just posted a bunch of stuff.
Yossi Vardi is the investor who was behind ICQ. He’s also a nice guy and just sent me a note that said that one of his new companies is seeing extraordinary growth very quickly. A million downloads in 49 days. What does it do? Accelerates videos on YouTube and other video streaming sites.
The word-of-mouth network is getting more efficient. In the first six weeks of ICQ they only saw about 65,000 downloads (that was back in 1996).
UPDATE: I made a mistake that I corrected above. Yossi was the investor behind ...
Yesterday, during his speech at the Forbes shindig I attended, Geoff Ramsey, CEO of eMarketer’s funniest remark was when he told us that the “Fear of Google” was so prevelent that it even had a three-letter acronymn: FOG.
Anyway, I’ve been hearing more and more about FOG all weekend as I talk with advertising and marketing executives from some of the world’s biggest companies. Here’s a few examples:
1) Why did the stock market drive shares of Yahoo up so fast on total rumors that Microsoft was buying Yahoo? Easy, we wanted ...
I love seeing the photos get sent into the 24-hours in Flickr event. There are already more than 3,000 photos (you can only put your best photo onto the group, so that’s 3,000 separate people’s photos). If you shot a picture yesterday (May 5th) you can add your photo to this group — the best ones will be added to a book about the day.
You can see where the photos are coming from on the 24-hours of Flickr map (only photos that were geotagged will show up on that, though).
One of my hobbies lately that I usually keep off of my blog is talking with people about politics. Why? Cause it usually is a good topic when you meet people who could care less about what Twitter is, or what Silverlight will do, or what the latest gadget is.
Anyway, here in Cancun I’ve been spending the afternoon sitting in the pool and meeting people. It’s amazing how many people have brought up John Edwards’ $400 haircut.
Consensus? That it demonstrates a lack of judgment and an unconcern for how this ...
One of the reasons why companies are not able to experience success in outsourcing is because they are not able to use such business strategy wisely. New Zealand companies are guilty of such accusations according to the research study done...
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Scott Beale linked to video of our session yesterday and some photos that Violet Blue took. Here’s my own photos. Hope you’re having a great weekend. Thanks to Forbes.com for inviting us here.
Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has released Automattic Stats, a hosted blog metrics system. The system, deployed as a WordPress plugin, allows those running WordPress on their own servers to have the metrics system already in use in the hosted WordPress.com services.
I’ve long drooled over the metrics used in WordPress.com, where I keep a personal and largely-neglected blog. The stats package is simple and keeps tracks of the important stats a blogger wants to know: number of visitors, top posts, referrers, search engine terms used to find the site, incoming ...
I’m listening to Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes talking to a group of the world’s top marketing executives in Cancun, Mexico. He’s running a panel on marketing ideas and strategies for big companies on the Internet. Also on the panel is the CMO of Siemens, the VP of Marketing for Symantec, the Director of Brand and Marketing Communications for DHL Express.
Anyway, I just subscribed to Rich’s blog feed and immediately noticed a mistake I think he is making: if you read his feed in an RSS aggregator (I’m using Google ...
Before judging anything, you must first have information about that person or situation in order to form a rational observation or conclusion. This is not the case in outsourcing. Some people instantly judge because they assume that this business...
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So, PostieCon (a conference sponsored by PayPerPost) was among the most controversial things I’ve ever done. People really hated that I was speaking there. I got constant crap from my friends and foes alike because of my decision to speak there.
But, it turned out they didn’t have enough attendees so they postponed it to November. They asked me to keynote their conference in November. But I declined due to the arrival of our impending arrival of our new son. I’m turning down nearly everything after Gnomedex in August.
Brier Dudley of the Seattle Times has a good point. The New York Post really jerked around the market and created a lot of wealth for someone. Who benefitted? Did they benefit from the rumor improperly? Note: I haven’t sold any of my stock recently and I haven’t bought any either. I don’t own Yahoo stock. In fact, I’m soon going to sell my Microsoft stock and not buy any stocks in the technology industry. There’s too much conflict there if I own stocks in the industry. There’s WAY too ...
Om Malik and the Wall Street Journal are reporting that the much talked about Microsoft/Yahoo rumors won’t come to fruition and that the talks are off.
I’ll tell ya one thing, though. It sure made for interesting conversation with a Yahoo employee I met tonight. We were starting to draw up where value would be built and where it’d be destroyed. There were a lot of places it would be destroyed and if two guys drinking beer can figure that out in half an hour, I’m sure that caused smarter people ...
On my way here I read most of Everything is Miscellaneous: The power of the new digital disorder, David Weinberger’s new book. It’s a good read, highly recommended. I got it for free, though, so keep that in mind. But I’m definitely giving this to my son’s teacher who told him never to use Wikipedia. It does a good job of laying out the pros and cons of Wikipedia. I learned a ton from the book and that’s good enough for me. Gotta run, the plane is loading.
Oh, heck, got ...
I’m sitting in Dallas waiting for a flight to Cancun. Oh, wait, this isn’t Twitter. Sorry about that.
Anyway, in SFO while waiting in the line to get to American Airlines counter a guy turned around and said “Thanks for doing those Adobe videos.” He was Aaron Pedersen, Interactive Architect at DHAP Digital. He’s working on a bunch of Web sites for Scion all with Adobe’s Flex.
Some things I learned from him:
1) It was the first time he’d heard of me.
2) Found me after Ajaxian linked to my videos.
3) Said my ...
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Another week of news behind us, I thought I'd put some of our announcements in context. Most importantly, our earnings announcement in the last week of April.
Was I happy with our overall performance? Yes and no. Yes, in that we grew and generated a GAAP profit. No, in that some, but clearly not all the metrics were where we wanted them.
Let's start with the developer side of the world. We had good growth across our core developer properties ...
Yahoo is up on rumors that Microsoft is wanting to buy it. Something to ponder as I travel to Mexico with Maryam today. Of course that is getting covered from all angles on TechMeme. I’m speaking at the Forbes Online Brand Management forum. I’m not being paid (they paid my travel expenses, but Maryam’s paying her own way down there). No link blogging or regular blogging until Tuesday (I’m going to a BEA thing on Tuesday in Atlanta, though, so not even sure I’ll be back until Thursday next week ...
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