October 2007
40 posts
blog.pmarca.com: Open Social: a new universe of... →
first positive comments for google’s new social initiative! stock already > $700! :-)
Google Launches OpenSocial →
:-)
Google Begins "Gmail 2.0" Rollout →
Stony Stevenson writes “Google on Tuesday confirmed it is giving Gmail a new look. This blog post has screenshots of a new Gmail interface that has been made available to a limited number of users. They are calling it “Gmail 2.0” even if Google isn’t. Google confirmed the update is underway at its new San Francisco office, just prior to a briefing on an unrelated upcoming...
After Succeeding, Young Tycoons Try, Try Again -... →
story about slide.com founder / valley’s young serial entrepreneurs
Amazon and Hardware As a Service →
sioux_chance writes to recommend an article up on ReadWriteWeb comparing Amazon’s S3 and EC2 services with Google AdSense. (They are not the first to coin the term “HaaS” for hardware as a service.) The analogy is that Google increased the granularity of (the article invents the term “fragmentized”) the revenue side of the Web business, whereas Amazon’s HaaS...
Serial entrepreneurs and today's Silicon... →
Several days ago, Gary Rivlin of the New York Times called me about a story he was writing about the brilliant Max Levchin of Paypal and Slide, and the general topic of serial entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. The story came out yesterday; below are the notes I prepared for my conversation with Gary.
In a nutshell, Gary’s question to me was: what makes serial entrepreneurs tick? Why do...
Mozilla Tests Integrated Desktop Browser →
HelloDotJPEG writes “Mozilla Labs, the organisation’s experimental arm, has launched Prism for interested Windows users to try out. Prism is a piece of software which integrates web applications such as Gmail or Google Reader into the desktop. The program enables you to run multiple such sites as though they were local applications, each in their own dedicated browser window. The...
Beppe Grillo's Blog: The Levi-Prodi law and the... →
Are you from Italy? Get ready to be taxed for your blog
“but”, you may say “it’s not a business blog” —looks like this is irrelevant!
“For people who are attracted to order and uniformity, this may be the ultimate...”
– Ning CEO on the popular “Social Graph” concept, posting at Ning Blog - “Multiple Personalities”
Slashdot | How to Dodge the Chinese Internet... →
“A report written by a tech worker in China describes the pervasive censorship, abetted by ample manpower and funding estimated at $27 billion in US dollars. The author, who calls himself Mr. Tao, also writes that plenty of Chinese are finding ways to resist censorship, and offers tips on how to keep evading Big GeGe (that’s Older Brother). Not surprisingly, self-censorship is very...
Findings From the 2007 Web Design Survey →
Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey’s 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.
Technology Review: Google Earth →
Technology Review interviewed engineers at Google and at DigitalGlobe, the company that supplies Google’s satellite photos, and did a little bit of reverse-engineering to figure out how it works
John Battelle's Searchblog: Web 2: The Google... →
John Battelle has gathered a group of key exec’s who left GOOG to start their own companies. “Each of these folks had senior positions at Google, but left. What would YOU ask them?”
More Gmail storage coming for all →
Chinese internet censorship machine revealed →
The Chinese government has instituted an elaborate system for Internet censorship that employs tens of thousands of censors and police responsible for maintaining control over the flow of information, a report released by international free press advocates showed..
“Gore and UN panel win Nobel prize”
– BBC
“Quantum cryptography to secure ballots in Swiss election”
– NetworkWorld
“Some smartphone junkies are experiencing phantom vibrations — feeling the...”
– AP
High Performance Web Sites book review →
Web developers often assume that most page-loading performance problems originate on the back-end, and thus the developers have little control over performance on the front-end, i.e., directly in the visitor’s browser. But Steve Souders, head of site performance at Yahoo, argues otherwise in his book, High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Frontend Engineers.”
watch this, potentially big:
Google Phone Not A... →
From the Times piece:
“The essential point is that Google’s strategy is to lead the creation of an open-source competitor to Windows Mobile,” said one industry executive, who did not want his name used because his company has had contacts with Google. “They will put it in the open-source world and take the economics out of the Windows Mobile business.”
“Google acquires Jaiku… rumors say price was $12 Mil”
– Jaiku | Google Q&A
“Google tops $600, announces IBM Partnership To Push Cloud Computing”
– Google And IBM Partner To Push Cloud Computing — Distributed Computing — InformationWeek
DoMyStuff.com →
“Thunderbird in Crisis”
– Slashdot | Thunderbird in Crisis?
“View real-time data and statistics from any logfile on any server you have SSH...”
– glTail.rb - realtime logfile visualization
“Adam Bosworth has started blogging again, now that he’s left Google....”
– John Battelle’s Searchblog: Bosworth Re-Appears
OK, you're right, it IS a bubble →
[IMPORTANT WARNING: What follows is satire. I’m NOT being serious. Except for one paragraph at the very end. See if you can spot that one.]
When I first started this blog four months ago, one of the first substantive posts I wrote was called “Bubbles on the brain”.
In it, I attempted to use “logic” to explain the reasons we are most likely not in another dot...
“ASUS launches first-ever motherboard with built-in Linux & Web Browser”
– Phoronix review
“Creative Commons is working with GRNET to create Greece jurisdiction-specific...”
– Greece - Creative Commons
Creative Commons στην Ελλάδα
China's Great Firewall turns its attention to RSS... →
let’s see what’s next.
“Postini security and compliance capabilities are now officially part of Google...”
– Official Google Blog: 3 short weeks
Earnings: Research In Motion beat Wall Street... →
Research In Motion beat Wall Street analysts’ expectations, reporting a profit of $287.7 million in the second quarter as revenue rose 108 percent. RIM shipped more than 3 million BlackBerry smartphones. Guess the iPhone release didn’t slow them down at all. [Canadian Press]
3 short weeks →
Posted by Scott Petry, Founder, Postini Three weeks ago today was the official close of Google’s acquisition of Postini — and what a three weeks it’s been. “Official close” meant that integration work could legally begin, and so the Google Apps team and Postini team have been burning the midnight oil to get our services integrated. Now, Google Apps customers,...
Microsoft HealthVault launches: health records go... →
Microsoft HealthVault launches: health records go online
“Interesting list of free applications / web services”
– The 70 coolest free applications in existence - Seopher.com
Social networking and the Geocities fallacy →
When I take someone through Ning for the first time, 49 out of 50 people look up at some point and say brightly, “Oh! It’s like I can have my own Facebook!” or “my own Myspace!” or “my own Youtube!”. And I say “yes!”, smile, nod, and continue.
But every once in a while, I’ll take someone through Ning and he or she will look up at some...
Website Grader →
I love this kind of stuff: Website Grader. You submit an URL, and the test grades how effective the site is in terms of search engine optimization. This blog got a score of 99%! Admittedly, I don’t know a thing about SEO; in fact my SEO strategy is: “Create as good content as you can and assume that Google finds it.” The fact that my blog did so well is entirely because of Neil Patel.
The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, part 3: Where... →
When picking an industry to enter, my favorite rule of thumb is this:
Pick an industry where the founders of the industry — the founders of the important companies in the industry — are still alive and actively involved.
This is easy to figure out — just look at the CEO, chairman or chairwoman, and board of directors for the major companies in the industry.
If the founders...
“Yesterday a select group of fifteen or so industry luminaries attended a highly...”
– The short version: Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google’s social graph data. Google To “Out Open” Facebook On November 5