0 commentsRegarding Google's S1 IPO registration statement... I've printed pages 6 - 20 and 75-90 and marked them as required reading. In the mean time, BoingBoing has pointed me to John Battelle's reaction, with summary at bottom.
Key points: Google is different. Google is long-term. Google is auctioning their stock to the public, and even the founders are selling some.
When our Arts Business class went to NYC, Williamsburg made for a day field-trip. Ethan Dougherty, Alison Delaney and your's truly brainstormed a Brooklyn version of hipster bingo on our walk off the subway.
- vintage tshirt - big glasses - converse or puma shoes - neon anything - bohemian strap bags - brooklyn band playing - superfluous scarves - mongrel barking dogs - jaded comments
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This Forbes articleFriendster frenzy has analysts puzzled quotes,
Adrian Scott, founder and chief executive of business networking site Ryze, said his 3-year-old company started turning a profit last year -- without venture backing.I wonder, do recent college graduates actively network amongst eachother? Is there room for a social networking service targeting college students who have recently graduated, or are about to graduate?
Ryze charges $9.95 a month for a gold membership that gives users advanced search capabilities and allows them to set up groups that are focused on industries or geographic areas.
This is amazing. I like Edo and Tokyo, but there are about fifteen other styles I haven't seen yet. per feedster's daily
'What is exciting about CXO Systems is the sheer size of the opportunity to arm the Global 5000 with a better way to build and deliver Dashboard Solutions,' said Busa. 'To date, CXO has built a tremendous product with patent-pending distributed intelligence capabilities, added over 1,000 users of its system, and has a very strong senior management team made up of industry executives and visionaries. I am excited to join the team and build upon the solid foundation of the past 18 months.'
Who hires lots of really, really talented coders each year?
This morning, I spoke with a Senior Recruiter for Microsoft Corporation. It was pleasantly informative (We're not hiring for any sales positions until September) and we decided that I might not have enough technical experience to fit into the Program Manager position I had applied for. My new friend Derek, of PhotoSleeve fame, was talented enough to secure himself a PM position in Redmond next year. Congrats!
I met Derek through my friend Dave Lutz. Dave Lutz spent last summer doing biological field work in the mountains of Peru. Here are some pictures that he e-mailed while on location.
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It occurred to me that my marketing professor, Dr. Sherri Bridges, might be a vision of Torri Spelling, 20 years in the future.
United States Patent #6,658,423
This is Google's patent for cleaning out their search engine database.. per comments on Slashdot
Shreepati ArcadeThis building has a residence restriction that all residents must be vegetarian. This kind of practice is not considered unusual in India.
I'll be missing a few crucial days of Beach Week in order to travel with my dad for some of his company business. The time with friends will be missed, but I don't really think I deserve a week's worth of vacation! Neither does my dad (cut to him not laughing).
Last summer, on June 27th, I chatted on my blog about Thaicom's iPSTAR Broadband Satellite System. It was my first peek into this extra-terrestrial data network, largely supplanted by Howstuffworks "How Satellites Work"Not so long ago, satellites were exotic, top-secret devices. They were used primarily in a military capacity, for activities such as navigation and espionage. Now they are an essential part of our daily lives. page. The iPSTAR satellite is important because this press release from late 2003 states:
The largest satellite ever built, iPSTAR-1 has an aggregate capacity of 40 gigabits per second (Gbps) as compared with a conventional satellite's capacity of 2-3 Gbps. It is due to be launched in early 2004.
Anyhow. Satellites and airplanes and Rhode Island are on my mind tonight.
NTT DoCoMo: VISION 2010
This is a neat vision of the future, but it's probably more like 20 to 30 years away instead of six. per Ricky
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Instead of getting a few fast computers and running them to the max, Mayer explained at a recruiting event at MIT, founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page had to make do with hand-me-downs from Stanford’s computer science department. They would go to the loading dock to see who was getting new computers, then ask if they could have the old, obsolete machines that the new ones were replacing. Thus, from the very beginning, Brin and Page were forced to develop distributed algorithms that ran on a network of not-very-reliable machines.
For no good reason I signed up to get an Indian marriage profile. "Your No. 1 Matrimonial Service Provider" has over 1.5 Million members. One question they asked stumped me: Are you a Manglik?.
Mangliks are people with Mars in their horoscope. They have to marry other Mangliks, or else they will die. Since the web survey required that I answer that question, along with whether or not I have any handicaps (and if I did, ) I guess this is a very popular belief in India! More insight from Yahoo India - Astrology.
Nick Gray WFU: have you ever used
Oddpost?
Nick Gray WFU: I think
Gmail is a lot like a very early version of
what Oddpost must have been like.
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christinaWFU: at that Malay restaurant by
the Lowes, they have Malaysian bread called Rote Canai (Roti chanai)
christinaWFU: the old man laughs at me b/c i
go there so much and order it
I told xxxxx my thoughts on possible client inclusion. So dreamy!
"It's a feature-set!"
xxxxx laughs. "Reminds me of the early xxxxxxx client. These little
boutique software companies would either- and this happened almost every
day- we'd include the feature, drop it to press, and their business was
crushed. Doomed. What are you going to do? Or we'd leave it out and
they'd do great."
How big do you think at your big company? email me, dinosaur.
I wonder what kind of.....
Oooh! CXO for MySQL. Who's in?
e-mail me.
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What if individual Amazon Associates went to GreatLengths to promote their favorite products?
The creative marketing agency moves....
outoftheTVandintoyourhandsKA-SPLAT!!
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Why must you leave us with such Treo envy?
Answer our pleas, beloved!
Geeks Everywhere
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"I hate IM because no smiley face, no matter with or without a wink, could ever represent true laughter. No frowny face, no matter if it's one, two, or three, could ever represent heartfelt sadness."
Nick Gray
Sophomore
nick gray wfu: hi
ZSR search bot: enter TITLE, SUBJECT, AUTHOR, or MORE
nick gray wfu: title A Great Good Place
ZSR search bot: 1. by Ray Oldenburg
ZSR search bot: 2. A Great Good Horse, by Dmitrius Moundew
ZSR search bot: 3. ETC
nick gray wfu: 1
ZSR search bot: call# HC321.76 J45
nick gray wfu: more
ZSR search bot: finish your lunch first
nick gray wfu: ok
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Clay Shirky ... retold the old story about Thomas J. Watson, founder of the modern IBM. "I see no reason for more than five of these machines in the world," Watson is reputed to have said. "We now know that he was wrong," Clay went on. The audience laughed knowingly, thinking of the hundreds of millions, if not billions, of computers deployed worldwide. But then Clay delivered his punch line: "We now know that he overstated the number by four."
Thought For Today
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I find in many areas that choices are made carefully. The concept of "winging it" just doesn't exist much here. What is there to wing? This is an island without resources. In the US, if worse came to worse, at least the thought could be entertained, of going it alone without trade with other nations. Not so here. It's import / export or die.
Stephen NewbernOne word: AWESOME
MCP, OEM Pre-installation Specialist
Out of college I went to work for EDS as a systems engineer developing C/C++ applications on UNIX platforms. I helped to create and maintain a public safety 911 call center application. In 1995 I came to work for Microsoft as a systems engineer (Technology Specialist).
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My hobbies include flying, singing, computers, cooking, international travel, and community service. Nothing lasts longer than seeing the smile of a child who has just learned what FrontPage® server extensions can really do!
It's early! All of the windows in my dormitory face east, so you're not going to miss sunrise. Between the dorm and the globe is our campus practice soccer field. Tonight (this morning) I'm still awake, but the soccer players are just getting started. Hopping and bopping to wake themselves up. A truck just honked - I wonder, for them?
From my car driving back I can see the players energy. It doesn't seem like such a bad idea.... In fact, I want to get out there with them! To do what? Wake up!
Live and Die by the Schedule. How great would it be?
She is the Goddess of Social Networking. If she blesses you with the right connection, she can change your life forever. She is worshipped by the millions who seek her out. Devotees construct Web sites for her as if they were temples. She sustains a $6.5 billion industry that grows annually. What’s more, she’s been doing so for thousands of years—long before the Internet and the term social networking came into vogue. She is every Indian’s aunt, affectionately and reverentially called Aunty-jee (jee is a suffix to denote respect, as in Gandhi-jee). And she single-handedly drives the very Indian industry of marriage brokering called matrimonials.quote for quote from Om Malik's blog
For social networking to be fully monetized, the nodes in the social network need a convergence event. These events provide a focal point where new networks are created and existing ones utilized. That’s why Indian aunts need a wedding. Her monetization is in the form of gifts, party invites, and a cache of social capital. So, here’s the prediction. While some money will be made by social networking companies by subscriptions, online transactions, and licensing of software, the really big money will be made by the vertical integration of online networking and offline networking.
WHAT USING FRIENDSTER FEELS LIKE:
I'm in the biggest store with aisles and aisles of boxes that all look the same.
Brought to 32-color GIF out of a Jakob Lodwick analogy in a comment about the visibility of what little upgrades Friendster has deployed. "just some crummy text fields after months of zero development??"
Jonathan Abrams is founder and CEO of Friendster, the most popular of online social network services. From a transcript of his March keynote at SXSW 2004, via FastCompany: What the Heck Is Social Networking?
I'm here because of a goofy little Web site that I whipped up not too long ago.
I noticed in 2002 that friends of mine were talking about using online dating sites.
If people said "business models," it might make more sense, but it's still not very interesting.
A universal yearbook is pretty interesting. It's the Web of trust concept, but it's also the Web of influence.
As a new Orkut user, Jakob told me that he expects to know what his friends are doing. 
He values groups that enable unlinked discussion, and wants them in Friendster.
Feature sets within the various general social networking websites must be copied in order to stay competitive regarding user aquisition and retention.
Abrams just got a $53 million valuation for FriendsterThe scuttlebutt was that for $5 million apiece, Kleiner and Benchmark each received less than a 10 percent share of an enterprise that was only about a year old and had never earned a dime. They had set Friendster's value at an astounding $53 million., so it's time to talk cash flow. He's proven that the company has a product which users overwhelmingly adopt. Now features (like Groups) take the back-burner to business plans and cash flows.
My guess is that Friendster is interested in letting you know what your friends are buying and selling. They probably have a teams dedicated to eBay and Amazon.com API exploration. (eBay Developers Program - Amazon Web Services).
I am continuing to think about:
- "Sure, I'd like to know what the most popular book bought by my friends in April was."
- When will Outlook's Contacts include support for the developing Friendster protocol?
- Will my mobile phone ever have network directory support, and if so, which companies are most actively developing for this?
- Who will be the first to ink a deal with Plaxo?
- I love the Outlook add-in that LinkedIn uses: It enables me to search my Outlook Inbox + archives for unique e-mail addresses of senders, then matches those e-mail addreses against their existing LinkedIn user database. This is CLUTCH!
Note: Jakob and my roommate Zach run a social networking website which exclusively targets college students. Among the 20,000+ registered users on CampusHook: Jakob Lodwick, Zachary Klein, Nick Gray.
- Why does the medical practice generate so much paper?
- What happens when 9x% of the browsing population is using web browsers up to the IE standards that let us do oddpost-level stuff?
- Dashboards.
Register now for The Business Dashboard - The Essential Weapon for the Business and IT Manager in the 21st CenturyI visited the CXO corporate offices in Boston while on spring break and had the opportunity to ask Malcolm a couple of candid questions about the enterprise dashboard. I'll try to take them from paper to blog tonight - you might have to remind me. Hopefully the notes will help share my enthusiasm about what these guys are doing. It's an understatement to say that his company is "growing fast." The demand is huge.
Sponsored by CXO Systems and Forrester Research
Date and Time: Thursday, April 8, 2004 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Featured Speakers:
Laurie Orlov, Research Analyst, Forrester Research Malcolm Frank, Co-founder and CEO, CXO Systems
ricksterbot: my jab?
ricksterbot: to keep the
aesthetic-seeking satiated while keeping the aesthetic-developing compensated
WindowsCE3: Who am I to argue with history?
left to right- Josh Weeks, Mike Izzi, me, Jesse Turcotte, Nigel O'Rear, Blake Vandevelde, and Lebbeous Weekly
- A random user messaged BuddyGopher, and his profile was the infamous Via Hiptop, the trademark AIM profile of a Danger user. BuddyGopher gets a lot of IMs from new users (about 50 each day) and this was the first time that anyone I've seen has flossed via hiptop.
- Here's the clincher: While checking out for groceries and waiting for the clerkCLERK??! you say, surely the author of this blog uses automated check-out! No, I shop at Loews Foods. to scan all of my items, I happened to get (and briefly browse) a new e-mail message. The Hiptop was out of my pocket for no more than five seconds before a crowd of threeAll were probably hip-hop fans was gathered around, asking about features and credit checks and retail locations.
Yes, of course it's a hoax. Read the release and it is obvious. Or is it?
Blake: Imagine how that would affect the stock price if Google was a public company.