Month: November 2005
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Shoposphere
Just in time for Christmas, Social Networking comes to wish lists.
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Mike Torres and his gadgets
While some of us talk about the upcoming convergence of television, PCs, and mobile, Mike Torres (Lead Program Manager for MSN Spaces) is living it. Right on Mike for blazing the trail!
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What’s going on at Yahoo?
If you’re interested in reading up on what Yahoo! is thinking about, I encourage you to read these three pieces, A Journey to the Center of Yahoo, The New York Times The Flickrization of Yahoo!, Business 2.0 Intertaining Yourself, Forbes I know it’s a bit rah, rah about my employer but I hope, after reading…
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End of the Season
Today was Tyler’s last day of soccer. This was his third season and he’s come a long way. They still don’t keep score so I’m not sure of their record but I’m pretty sure the Alameda Lions were more interested in the snacks at the end of each game than the actual play. There’s still…
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Privacy Wall
I wrote the following post on Friday and was going to mull it over for a bit but then this article came out in today’s Washington Post that made the issues raised here all the more timely. An interesting topic was brought up that was glossed over in coverage of Friday’s Search SIG. John Battelle…
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SD Forum Search SIG
I went to the SD Forum Search SIG over at the Microsoft Silicon Valley campus last night. The first session was a talk between John Battelle and his old editor at MacWorld, Dan Farber (now Editor in Chief at ZDNet). Then there was a panel discussion featuring the viewpoints of four companies that are building…
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TimesSelect Annual Revenues Nearly $5M
The New York Times announced that it has over 270,000 subscribers to it’s premium TimesSelect service. PaidContent does some back of the envelope calculations and calculates that they are pulling in $4,954,000 in annual revenue from this venture only 52 days after launch.
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Lizards & pork chop hats = entertainment
Now wonder the rest of the world thinks Japan is crazy. Here’s a video of an old game show featuring lizards and girls with pork chop hats. (pointer and further commentary on BoingBoing)