0 commentsMonster buys Tickle for stock and $29.5 mln in cash
I forgot to blog this.... Monster buys Tickle for stock and $29.5 mln in cashMonster (MNST) said it'll pay 1 million shares of its stock, the initial cash payment and a potential $40-plus million over three years, depending on Tickle's ability to meet certain financial hurdles.
Tickle is profitable and generated $25 million in sales in the last 12 months ending April 30, according to the company's press release.
thoughts on user registration
Has anyone else noticed the trend to not include United States of America at the top of country pull-down lists?
BBC - History - The British Presence in India in the 18th Century
BBC - History - The British Presence in India in the 18th Century via AskMeFi
At the start of the 18th century, the East India Company's presence in India was one of trade outposts. But by the end of the century, the Company was militarily dominant over South India and rapidly extending northward.
Microsoft Exchange Server: Exchange Server?2003 Online Trial
Exchange Server 2003 Online Trial per BlakeAsk MetaFilter | Community Weblog
... but I'm not really the outdoors-type
HOW TO: Obtain Free Copies and Do Other Fun Stuff to Copiers || kuro5hin.org
HOW TO: Obtain Free Copies from Canon copiers an evil article from kuro5hin.org, via blogdex.: Sal & Carv?o :. Churrascaria????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
near Chicago, check out .: Sal & Carvao :. for great meat meals per Joi Ito's friend Matt
Welcome to my site - 'AMRITA RAO'
Would this ever be included in an American movie star's bio?
Coming from a very well-to-do Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin family, it was just by chance that Amrita walked in.... to audition for, 'Fairever Face Cream'ad. film
Which basically means, "A rich girl stumbled upon a TV commercial for skin whitening cream."
Ishq Vishk is heart-warming
Ishq Vishk is heart-warming and the best movie ever. It is available on my DivX FTP... 152.17.142.98, e-mail me for the username and password.Variety.com - Herz tunes in to pic for Terra Firm Films
ISHQ is the first Bollywood film I've ever seen, and it is simply amazing.
palmOne Software Connection- Software for Palm Handhelds and Treo Smartphones
I'm going to try to edit my technology posts a little more concisely, starting now. Maybe.
Today I got the Treo 600 mobile telephone from Sprint PCS. I am about six months late to this device, having stuck with the Danger Sidekick until the last possible minute.
It is an undertaking to install everything for Synch'ing the Treo 600 to my laptop. Nothing fun comes configured "out of the box" - Not even MP3s! Danger was so much easier.... Sigh- and I long for the unexpected benefits of no desktop synchronization!
Push on.
the personal home page of nicholas todd gray
you are here:the personal home page of nicholas todd gray, aka nick gray - blog
Barrington Hall
Mahlen Morris, who helped out with BuddyGopher database stuff, lived in Barrington Hall when he was a college student. Talk about wild... check out some of those pictures.
World Wide WET - introduction
justin hall points to WET magazineIs WET the "roots of boingboing" that Hall mentions?
for Ricky
for Rick... per popbitchOC Fans - look out for Athens, creator Josh Schwartz's new drama set in a East Coast university town about working class locals and rich students starting in Jan.
Success and Motivation P4
Yes, he is that good. Today is another day that I am thankful for a Mark Cuban blogging lunchtime break. Awesome tales from the early consumer PC days.
Sprint PCS Info - AT&T To Become MVNO With Sprint *Updated*
I totally missed this... Sprint PCS Info - AT&T To Become MVNO With Sprint *Updated*gmail april fools
WindowsCE3: I'm still waiting on the gmail April Fool's announcement. The shenanigans have gone on long enough.Elance: example
Here is one of the better examples of a portfolio submitted to bid on the Elance project.
Elance: Select a Winner
Twelve bids for my Elance project overnight... From Mumbai to Islamabad to Kiev to Michigan, this is great. I love it.Howard Lovy's NanoBot
I didn't have any idea what Kabbalah was until I read this blog post comparing it to nanotech - NanoKabbalah Consciousness per BoingBoingWe create the best custom graphics - WebtriX
I posted a project request on Elance Online today. Looks like a beautiful eService thus far.
Cingular, T-Mobile sever joint venture | CNET News.com
Does this mean no more free GPRS roaming for Danger users? Cingular, T-Mobile sever joint venture | CNET News.com
UPDATE PROOF THAT I HAVEN'T BEEN SKIMMING MY ARTICLES WELL ENOUGH-- Zach Klein to me -- Regarding your blog and your concern for GPRS roaming -- The article on CNET spells it out, no?
T-Mobile, a U.S. subsidiary of Germany's Deutsche Telekom, said it will provide network services to Cingular customers until the AT&T Wireless acquisition is complete. And while both carriers pledged that customers will be unaffected by the arrangement, T-Mobile indicated that it will replace its existing roaming agreement with Cingular with a new nationwide agreement under different terms.
TelephonyOnline 8.20.03 (Optical Q&A) - Interview: Dave Schaeffer, Cogent Communications
TelephonyOnline - Interview: Dave Schaeffer, Cogent CommunicationsWhen we bought PSINet, there was actual cash invested in that network of about $6 billion. We bought it for $10 million. The guy who is selling the service has a network that cost $6 billion, but he's got to get a return on it. We got all that capital for free.
What is DWDM? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
What is DWDM?Currently, because of DWDM, single fibers have been able to transmit data at speeds up to 400Gb/s.
Howstuffworks "How does a fiber optic cable work?"
Howstuffworks "How does a fiber optic cable work?"Home & Real Estate
I'm guessing you understand the benefits of a web service, as opposed to software.software - single sale.
web service - cash flow.
BRAZZIL - News from Brazil - CACHACA IS HIP
BRAZZIL - News from Brazil - CACHACA IS HIP ... this is what we're drinking after a boat ride in North Georgia tonight. Scroll down to the Recipes: section and you'll find us on the first one Caipirinha (little peasant girl)
The Advent of Netwar
Jakob Lodwick, this link is for you -- The Advent of Netwar. Start with Chapter 1.Watching Rats Abandon Ship - Transcript of Bruce Sterling at Microsoft Corporation
Transcript of Bruce Sterling at Microsoft Corporation "sort of like the carbon rod in the nuclear pile" per boingboingNero [Nero 6 Ultra Edition - The Suite]
Allow me to submit a glowing testimonial for the Nero 6 CD burning software. Never has it been so easy to turn DivX movie files into VCD and SVCD discs that can play in commercial DVD players. (In the past, it used to take several complicated steps.)
Michael Maldonado
LOCAL GOSSIP ALERT The big talk of the town is that the man who used to live next door to us, Michael Maldonado, is missing after a boating accident. Front page of the local paper here for the last two days.
"It wouldn't surprise me if he faked it and went down to Mexico. The guy works for the IRS, remember?"
"No way, he is catfish food by now."
Jeff Nolan
Jeff Nolan of SAP Ventures reports that IMlogic, a provider of enterprise software solutions for the instant messaging (IM) technology market, obtained $16 million in third-round financing today. Crosslink Capital led the round; General Catalyst Partners, Goldman Sachs Ventures, Kodiak Venture Partners, and Venrock Associates participated.Google Corporate Information: Ten Things
Google Corporate Information: Our Philosophy in Ten Things per blogdexpicasso record painting set
A painting by Pablo Picasso of an adolescent boy holding a pipe has fetched all-time record price at auction in New York.
Picasso's "Boy With A Pipe" ("Garçon a la Pipe") was sold to an anonymous bidder represented in the room by Warren Weitman of Sotheby's for $93 million. The final price, reflecting commissions for the auctioneer, is roughly $104.1 million.
The price easily beats that of the previous all-time record setter, Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr. Gachet," which sold at a Christie's auction for $82.5 million in 1990. MORE
I've been shadowing my father for the past two days. I'll be working for him until July 1st.
This is the nose of a Falcon jet, with a Challenger in back.
nick gray dot net
Almost back.
After over 16 months of nearly non-stop use, I cancelled my Danger hiptop mobile phone. I don't want to use the same device phone as Lindsay Lohan anymore.
That phone allowed me to instantly blog a lot of my favorite text-based content that you read on this thoughts page. So, I think it will be at least four years before I purchase a mobile phone without a QWERTY keyboard. Faster web access, and internal memory for MP3 files and a working cameraphone would be nice next.
Screen Name Service
Order of people I have heard be "overly skeptical" of Colin making this morning's speech: 1. Zach 2. my dad. Colin Powell was in the country of Jordan as late as 11:00am EST Sunday - Drudge Report on the mild reporting scandal Sunday. --UPDATE: HE MADE IT AND CLOSED HIS SPEECH WITH "PARTY ON, DEMON DEACONS. PARTY ON."Investor's Business Daily: Breaking News
Investor's Business Daily: Connecting the dots on Krispy KremeKrispy Kreme is likely to go down as a classic example of style over substance -- and certainly a reminder of why liking a company's products doesn't necessarily mean you should like the stock.WFU | Colin L. Powell to address WFU grads; C-Span to broadcast ceremony
WFU | Colin L. Powell to address WFU grads; C-Span to broadcast ceremonybuildering.net - the online home for urban cragging
buildering.net - the online home for urban cragging per ralph
JengaJam.com >> A revolutionary way to fold your shirts (WMV, 1.5mb)
JengaJam.com >> A revolutionary way to fold your shirts (WMV, 1.5mb)Tokyo Business Show 2004: New Cell Phones from Japan
Tokyo Business Show 2004: New Cell Phones from JapanC-level
Great question to ask on a job interview- What do you value in your C-level executives?BuddyGopher Demo : Stats Page
I'm having second thoughts, I told Matthew.
"Of course you are!" he said. "That's common."
I'm sitting in his executive office, my unexpected visit more important than he imagined. Good lessons are often found here (at least during my once prior). I happened to arriving as Matthew's company was preparing for their Series B funding. The Boston-based software firm, born on a business plan and staffed by seasoned over-30 execs, raised several million dollars in their Series A not two years prior. Stuff for the enterprise.
The conflict in Winston-Salem is that Page West, my old academic advisor, never believed in the Internet. At least, not like me and my peers believe in its selling power. Dr. Page was always about things he could touch. "I like food, and I like clothing. Those are real products made by real companies, in my mind." ....... Maybe that's helpful- a strong, conservative voice among this crowd of optimistic freestylers === We're beat-boxing to broadband waves of wallets that smart-shop until their fingers drop on our sites and our wares with Little care to what the past might hold, going to the future
Heal Your Church Web Site: What we can learn from MovableType's new pricing schedule ...
Heal Your Church Web Site: What we can learn from MovableType's new pricing schedule ...: "the problem isn't that MovableType is now a pay to play product, but rather that SixApart priced their product past the point of customer loyalty"CNN.com - Trillions of cicadas to hit eastern, southern?states - May 11, 2004
Nick Gray WFU: those zappers?
zklei: yES!
zklei: the zapperS!!
popular prohibitionist saying
Heartless, godless, hell's delight-rude by day and lewd by night.
a popular prohibitionist saying
BAPE - Test Commercial
BAPE - Test Commercialthey are that hot clothing company from Japan I was telling you about!Assorted Papers
Packing day, and I just found a thick folder full of newspaper cut-outs and Save Me papers.
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Instead of keeping odds and end scraps like this, why not digitally scan and then discard the paper? I didn't have a scanner handy, so my digital camera had to suffice. This took about an hour, and in hindsight it didn't save me any time or very much space.
CNN.com - Man angry at Verizon hurls phones - May 14, 2004
Best publicity stunt ever? CNN - Man angry at Verizon hurls phonesA man who said he was fed up with his cellular phone service went to a Fargo mall and started hurling phones across a store, striking an employee and causing more than $2,000 in damage, authorities said.. The fact that the man was 22 years old is even more perfect. Attention TMobile or Virgin- sign this guy NOW to do your next TV commercial.SHOUTcast - HOME
I'm back at Wake, packing up my stuff to head back to Atlanta for a month. I'm listening to this, bear with me.
Blog Maverick - The Mark Cuban Weblog - www.blogmaverick.com
Blog Maverick - The Mark Cuban Weblog - www.blogmaverick.comSomething my buddy Andy relayed to me a long time ago when I started buying and selling stocks has stuck with me, and I try to remind myself of before I make any investment. "When you sit at the business table you always look for the sucker or fool. If you don't see one, it's you."
alexandra.lee: 02/01/2004 - 02/29/2004
The 20th century belonged to the United States. The 21st will belong to China. Shanghai today feels like what the New York City of 1903 must have been like - alive and bursting at the seams with growth and potential.
This fellow Jim Rogers became fantastically wealthy when he and George Soros founded the Quantum Fund in the late 80's. Since then, Rogers has driven around the world three times (a record!). Adventure Capitalist is his latest account, and I'm enjoying the listen.
Tonight (yesterday) I enjoyed a quick snack and conversation with Aaron Greenspan (of Think Computer) in Harvard Square. He is working on some impressive undergraduate communitity-focused web stuff. Look for good things this summer from downtown Boston.
sent via Danger phone
-----Original Message----- From: Joe Reitman Subject: Survivin' The Island Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:06:28 -0700 My film "Survivin' The Island" is one of the spotlight films under SURVIVOR SHORTS on the Atom Films Homepage at http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/home/ this week. the direct link is http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/survivin_the_island If you get a chance please check it out, and if you have time leave a review and tell a friend. Not to toot my own horn.....but I think the film doesn't suck........ Also, Shannon will be on Jimmy Kimmel tonight, so please tune in! Talk soon, Joe
sent via Danger phone
sent via Danger phone
MIT nerds get the best of Vegas in a winning TV documentary
MIT nerds get the best of Vegas in a winning TV documentary per Rick, Monday at 9:00pm History Channel
Oh My! (xoxo) There is a new version of Blogger, and it just knocked my socks off. Single-page posts and comments are among the new features to consider.
Leaving tomorrow for Boston and Rhode Island. Then it's back to Winston on Wednesday for a marathon day of driving to hopefully meet the guys up at the beach house in the Outer Banks. Pay for this!
Another road trip, another book on CD. Thank you, Audible.
Almost one year ago (look at the May 14th entry in the May archives) I seriously considered purchasing their stock with about $800 I had floating in a mysterious eTrade account. I should have (cliche!), because today that $800 investment would be worth $6,745.
It made me think of an interview between an elementary school electronics club and Bill Gates.
Screenshots of the easy sales dashboards from the Salesforce.com – Demo Center. Jeff Nolan over at SAP Ventures convinced me to do the demo after reading his thoughts on the value of information technology.
When technology was super expensive and only a few businesses could afford it, the ones that had it enjoyed some advantage over their competitors. Fast forward to today, and you have a small business with two employees and a $60 a month subscription to Salesforce.com. They have the same functional capacity that a larger competitor with Siebel or SAP does, and needless to say it cost (the larger company) a whole lot more.
Salesforce.com has a quirky logo:
- What are we really buying?
- What is the target’s stand-alone value?
- Where are the synergies—and the skeletons?
- What’s our walk-away price?
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our trash areas at Wake Forest University quickly get boarded up during graduation week, for fear of the old sofa chairs and overflow fridge cleanouts accidentally attracting confused Haitians by the dozen.
let's color it up! from left to right, top to bottom, your Polo 3rd Floor Hall artists are:
- Tiffany Needham, orange bear
- Megan Scheminske, green face
- Nick Gray, olympic china
- Peter Sulick, peeping Thom
- Zachary Klein, stencil trend
This morning I spoke with a WFU grad who does college recruiting for Trilogy. You may have read about Trilogy's aggressive undergraduate recruiting program in the book The Rise of the Creative Class. Ben said that in India, the kids are much more interested in technical demonstrations than in hanging out at bars like their Western counterparts. "Show me Linux clusters, not beers."
Here are some other random anecdotes from our discussion:
- Trilogy has moved all of their software development to Bangalore. "We tend to hire on the high-end." If their starting salaries for USA are around $80,000, his best picks from top schools like BMS Bangalore and RVCE Bangalore get about US$12,000.
- Naukri.com is like the Monster.com of India. Also, JobsAhead.com
- International opportunities usually aren't available for first-year hires, simply because they require the transfer of knowledge that most grads do not have about a company. Ben got his current nine-month Bangalore assignment based upon three years of prior recruiting experience. So, network! "You've started right by signing up for LinkedIn." (That's how I found him.) Highly, highly suggested using WFU's WIN alumni network to find international contacts.
- India City Gossip: Bangalore rules- great weather, lots of pubs, liberal people, rather small in size. Chennai and Madras really suck- hot and conservative people.
- There is no way to prepare yourself for the culture shock. As much as you want to read in guidebooks or surf the web, you'll still be blown away. How can such talented, technical people come from a country so backwards? "Things are very inefficient here."
- If I'm looking for a CS guy from India or a CS guy from the US, the India guy will be stronger technically, but the US guy will have better business sense. "That's probably your best competitive advantage as a non-coder, so exploit it."
Here's a question for you... What American healthcare management company read my blog today after Google searching for Andrew Filipowski?
Most WFU students have no idea that the man driving around our town in a Mini Cooper was once founder and CEO of a very, very famous software company. Flip (aka Andrew J. Filipowski) eventually sold Platinum Technology, Inc. to CA for about four billion dollars, Chair'd the Board for Boston Market 1994-1998, fell in love with a girl from Winston, hopped on the board of Blue Rhino and moved here to start a new software companySilkRoad Technology.
I've had lunch with Flip once before, and it's pretty obvious that he gets it. Intimidating? Yes. Over-hyped? No. Software rock star? Yes. Easy to get a hold of? No. Uses a Treo 600? Yes. Shoots with a Canon G3? No.
Wake Forest student life photos over the last week, from my Canon G3... hold your mouse over the image for ALT captions
Nick Gray WFU:
Maigh, what's up?
MaighTW: from
their web page:
The original Human Be-In was held on January 14, 1967 in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park... Playing on the sunlit stage that day at the Polo Fields were the Grateful Dead - along with, as the poster proclaimed, "All San Francisco Rock Bands" - plus Allen Ginsberg and other Beats reading poetry, and Timothy Leary voicing his soundbite of the decade: "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out." It was the original Gathering of the Tribes, and although it was actually a relatively modest event of 10-15000 or so people, it catalyzed the now-legendary Summer of Love in San Francisco and Be-Ins and Sit-Ins and Love-Ins worldwide.
Inspired by the refreshing aroma of high school love flowing through America's collective conscience, the CollegeHumor writing staff decided to take our best cracks at creating a mega-lame 9th grade love poem... Read My Baby, by Ricky Van Veen
"We've acquired a mobile blogging solution that integrates directly to the network operators. The technology can be served through 2 models, the typical SMTP send-like-an-email model, or through MMS, a more robust and secure model. This is a HUGE capability for enterprise use."
Hmmm.... Even more promising news in this Triad Business Journal article:
In the past 12 months, SilkRoad Technology has gone from one employee to 74 and is on pace to have $25 million in sales this year, according to founder Andrew "Flip" Filipowski.
I admit that I was initially turned off by their wide array of enterprise software solutions. From network surveillance cameras to content management suites, their focus seemed scattered. I couldn't get a good read on the business and why they would be interested in consumer instant messaging. Pete's recent MMS aquisition mentioned above gets me excited - but I'm still not sure where SilkRoad is going. I read a quote in some old Divine pressFor better or worse, Andrew Filipowski, CEO of divine, inc.—perhaps better known as "Flip"—is the closest thing the digital content industry has to a rock star. Flip cruises around on a private jet sporting a leather jacket and waist-length hair. He courts the media and coins catch phrase even faster than he acquires companies. that called Flip the "rock star of the digital content industry." I'll be interested to see if SilkRoad Tech begins to redefine themselves - or is Eprisethe guys bought Eprise in 2000 for $43.2 million - divine Continues Acquisition March still their baby?
From my consumer perspective, this MMS aquisition is a great "rock star" compliment to SilkBlogs.
'It's all too easy to identify the things that might go wrong with an investment,' explains Moritz. 'It's far more difficult to identify what might be possible.'
For all the idealism our class displayed and heard on our trip to New York, it was hard not to be shaken by the profound epiphany that the art market is an almost perfect, if somewhat idiosyncratic, commodities market. A close look at the framework of the market reveals that the art market is probably not all that structurally singular even if its players can appear to be passionate ideologues rather than simple suppliers and demanders.
Continue reading the art market is an almost perfect commodities market, a college essay.
Nick Gray WFU: what's up
Dave Lutz
Wakkondot: hey
Wakkondot: i've been out of commission, sorry about lunch, listen to
what happened
Wakkondot: my dad got diagnosed with cancer and my cat needed to be put down, i
found out at easter
Wakkondot: then the next week i was getting 103 fevers every night, i went to
formal
Wakkondot: and had to go to the ER friday, with a 104.6 fever - so they
prescribed me valium and xanax and diagnosed it as a panic attack
Wakkondot: but i felt shitty so i went back to the ER sunday and they diagnosed
me with hepatitis
Wakkondot: my mom flew here and flew me back, i was so weak I
couldn't even go to
the pisser, i went to doctors at home for a week, they diagnosed me with mono
Wakkondot: i flew back here wednesday, then yesterday i went to the ER because
they diagnosed me with severe tonsilitis, so now i'm all medicated for that
Wakkondot: crazy 3 weeks
Google IPO
Can't stomach your way through Google's official S1 filing? If nothing else, you have to read the LETTER FROM THE FOUNDERS. I've added the clipart that Larry is rumored to have demanded and kept the letter content intact.
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