Posted on March 17, 2009 by Adam Nash
This is a note I meant to post over a week ago, but didn’t get around to it.
The question is, would you pay $12.99 for 5 hours of Facebook?
The reason I ask is, until a couple weeks ago, I would have assumed the answer was no. Facebook has become the latest in a line of [...]
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Posted on February 15, 2009 by Adam Nash
Last year, I had the opportunity to speak at the PDMA International 2008 conference in Orlando, FL. I gave a talk entitled:
“Building a World Class Web 2.0 Product Organization”
While I posted this presentation to Slideshare and on my LinkedIn profile, it turns out I never actually posted it here on this blog.
Christina Wodtke, author of [...]
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Posted on January 5, 2009 by Adam Nash
I had one of those “delightful” newspaper moments today. I was going through my Sunday morning ritual, page-by-page through the Sunday New York Times, when I happened upon an interesting editorial in the Week in Review.
The article itself was interesting, but likely one I would have ignored in the online version. (It’s still one of [...]
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Posted on December 20, 2008 by Adam Nash
With rates plummeting these days, many people are choosing to refinance. My family falls into that bucket, as we refinanced our home almost five years ago (2004) at the low, low rate of 4.5% for a 5/1 mortgage. (In case you are curious, we ended up getting a 5/1 because while 30-year rates were also [...]
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Posted on November 11, 2008 by Adam Nash
I don’t usually post every article here about LinkedIn, but this BusinessWeek piece is worth reading:
LinkedIn and Reid Hoffman: Recession Ready
The online version is an extended version from the print magazine. I think the only reason to read the print version is the unique and slightly intimidating picture of Reid across the center spread. [...]
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Posted on November 4, 2008 by Adam Nash
Will Hsu had a very interesting post on his blog, Hitchiker’s Guide to 650. (Yes, it’s a pretty cool blog title)
Will overlayed the now infamous Hype Cycle and a hypothetical startup valuation J-Curveover each other, like this:
(Minor nits – the J-Curve here likely shouldn’t start at zero, but at some higher amount. The founding team [...]
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Posted on October 2, 2008 by Adam Nash
This is literally yesterday’s news, but was worth a mention here. From the eBay Ink blog:
Marc Andreessen has joined eBay’s board of directors, effective immediately.
Andreessen is most noted for co-founding Opsware and Netscape, and served as AOL’s CTO immediately following its acquisition of Netscape. His current venture is Ning, a new consumer Internet company founded [...]
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Posted on September 29, 2008 by Adam Nash
From Science News:
Here’s a number to savor: 243,112,609-1.
Its size is mind-boggling. With nearly 13 million digits, it makes the number of atoms in the known universe seem negligible, a mere 80 digits.
And its form is tidy and lovely: 2n-1.
But its true beauty is far grander: It is a prime number. Indeed, it is the largest [...]
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Posted on September 4, 2008 by Adam Nash
I generally don’t write about politics here on my blog, largely because I tend to be more issue-oriented than party-oriented, and that seems to bring out fire from both sides of the aisle.
Right now, I’m hopelessly behind on keeping up with the conventions – I’ve downloaded all the speeches from the DNC, but haven’t watched [...]
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Posted on August 20, 2008 by Adam Nash
If you follow eBay closely, you may have heard the news already. If not, I’m sure you’ll be reading more about the big eBay announcements over the next few days.
AuctionBytes has coverage, as does Business Week, but I actually think Randy Smythe has the best summary I’ve seen to date.
There are a huge number [...]
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Posted on July 29, 2008 by Adam Nash
If you missed the 39 articles currently on Google News on the topic, Mike Schroepfer announced today that he has accepted an engineering leadership position at Facebook. Mike is the current VP of Engineering at Mozilla, and has been there for about three years.
Here are Mike’s comments, direct from his Mozilla blog.
In my opinion, of [...]
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