I’m Reading…Just in case you aren’t one of the 225 million Facebook users who received a notification, tonight at 12:01 AM EST (9:01 PM local time), Facebook decided to launch a massive “first-come, first serve” claim on usernames (or handles) on Facebook.
You might be wondering why this is big deal, since these have existed on every [...]
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That’s right, everyone. A new acronym is born.
Get ready for consultants, product managers, marketing executives, and knowledgeable technorati everywhere to be talking about the most important traffic driver since… SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
That’s right, 2009 is the year of TEO. Twitter Event Optimization.
The logic is simple enough. Twitter is growing by incredible rates, and it’s [...]
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If you have not been following the latest Twitter drama, I thought I’d share it briefly here on this blog.
Meet Connor Riley. She seems like a nice enough young woman, going to UC Berkeley. Her personal student website is online, including her resume. After all, she is looking for a job.
Good news! She landed an [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I am fortunate to manage a really cool team at LinkedIn. How do I know this? Because when Steve Ganz, one of our more senior web developers came back from vacation, he was greeted by… GANZBOT!
Ganzbot is a lot of fun… he is hooked up to Twitter, and to a custom [...]
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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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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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