I’m Reading…This is actually news from last week, but Google announced that they are repricing their employee stock options. John Batelle has fairly representative coverage on his blog. His post cites coverage from Adam Lashinsky at Fortune (a personal favorite as a journalist) with a fairly typical dig on the issue. Here’s the actual quote: One [...]
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Can’t get much better press than that, right? The title is copied verbatim from a blog post on the announcement. From Finance Geek: A Google (GOOG) rock star defects: Dipchand “Deep” Nishar, who helped kickstart Google’s mobile business, is moving to LinkedIn. WSJ: Mr. Nishar, 40, in January will become vice president of product strategy [...]
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Owning your own personal brand is harder than you might think. It’s neck-and-neck for the domination of the “Adam Nash” top 10 search results on Google. It used to be just a two-way battle between me, and some child born in Colorado for the express purpose of donating stem cells to his sibling. Now, there [...]
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Yes, I have nostalgic feelings for good, old Filemaker. There, I said it. I caught this post on the Google Docs blog last week, and thought I’d comment here about it, since it’s such a useful feature enhancement. The enhancement? The ability to create short web-forms that you can email out to people, without requiring [...]
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The video from Campfire One, the launch event for Open Social last night at the Google campus is now live. The demo that Elliot & I give for LinkedIn is about 38:30 into the video (or 18:55 from the end, if you have the timer set up to run backwards). It’s a good thing there [...]
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I think you can tell from the title why the marketing team at LinkedIn keeps a close eye on me. This week has been extremely busy… a lot of press attention already to the LinkedIn partnership with Google on the new Open Social APIs. Since this is my personal blog, I thought I’d just flag [...]
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One of the great things about working for eBay was the support of the legal team for the creation and filing of patents. Over the course of my four years at eBay, I filed several patent applications, starting with my first in last 2004. When I was growing up, I used to always hear about [...]
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I, like everyone else, am enjoying reading this post of pseudo-Q&A with an engineer who worked for Microsoft, then joined a startup that got acquired by Google. Not sure how legitimate it is, but everything in it rings true. Lots of insights into the Google culture, as well as some of the innovations they have [...]
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I’m trying out a new idea, borrowed from My Blog Utopia, Randy Smythe’s blog. A couple months ago, I realized that I was accumulating far too many blogs to read through the My Yahoo interface. Over 100 at last count. I needed a blog reader, and based on popularity of the blog readers hitting this [...]
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I’ve been thinking a bit about how people find people online. To sample, I tried three different services: Google, ZoomInfo, and LinkedIn. I wanted to get a sense of three different approaches to online people search. Let’s start with web search! Google doesn’t really focus on people as a first-class entity, so it basically just [...]
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Now this one is a lot of fun… I moved my blog reading from My Yahoo to Google Reader about 6 weeks ago. It has been tough to adjust to the new habit – my instinct is to always go to My Yahoo. But My Yahoo just wasn’t scaling for the number of blogs I [...]
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About a year ago, Amazon launched it’s S3 storage service. This seemed a little strange to me at the time, because Amazon’s core business is as an online retailer… it was unclear to me what type of strategic advantage they would have as a long term of provider of cheap, online storage. “Let a thousand [...]
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This quote may be by Mark Twain (or it may not). If you want an example, here’s one: How Google Hits $1000 a Share (2006) [Cisco's] Market Cap Climbing to $1 Trillion (2000) At least I’m not the only one who thinks so.
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I picked up this snippet from John Battelle’s Searchblog yesterday: Marissa Mayer, at Web 2.0 today, shared insights into some lessons Google has learned in trying to serve users. The take-away is that Speed is just about the most important concern of users—more than the ability to get a longer list of results, and more [...]
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How could I not share this? Giant Bug Terrorizing Germany I can only hope that my friends in the eBay Germany office are safe.
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