Archives for October 2008
links for 2008-10-31
The Entire Video of John Doerr Giving 10 Tips for Start-ups to Avoid the Econalypse | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD
Here’s a video of star VC John Doerr reciting his 10 tips for start-ups to follow in the economic downturn.
(tags: startups)
links for 2008-10-29
NuConomy Studio Leaves Private Beta, Aims To Redefine Web Analytics
NuConomy has released a its Studio product today, a collection of free tools aimed to bring next-generation web analytics that move away from the traditional model based on page views. This is a WPP portfolio company.
(tags: analytics)
Bloomberg.com: Worldwide
Yahoo! Inc. handled a larger chunk of U.S. [...]
links for 2008-10-28
Christian Science Monitor Ends Daily Print Edition - NYTimes.com
I think we all saw this coming. More to come.
(tags: msm)
Time to Leave the Laptop Behind - WSJ.com
For years, mobile workers have been ditching their desktop computers for laptops that they can take wherever they go. Now road warriors are starting to realize that they can [...]
links for 2008-10-25
Mack Brown - Google News
This is a new feature on Google News — "Quotes." It extracts the quotes of people. Try it for your CEO — are they consistent in their messages?
(tags: google quote)
Oprah's Favorite New Gadget
I wasn't going to post this, but an inordinate amount of people were talking about it online [...]
links for 2008-10-24
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Maker Faire Austin Pictures
I took my 3yo boy to Maker Faire and he could not get enough… made a kite… made a smiley face necklace… watch people launch rockets and watermelons…. and the coke/mento guys were there doing their thing. If you get a chance to go [...]
links for 2008-10-23
Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online : 'Times' Op-Ed Pages Hires Bono
Bono will be writing op-eds for the NY Times. Very smart, traffic-driving idea. Of course, even Bono's content and POVs must be relevant to engage and keep eyeballs coming back.
(tags: bono nytimes)
Top Ten Android Launch Apps
Judging from Erick Schonfeld's comments and list of [...]
links for 2008-10-13
Google Employees Watch In Horror As 60 Percent Of Their Stock Options Drown
The entire stock market is down and Google is no exception. I was in San Jose last week and people seemed genuinely happy that Google millionaires were struggling. There seems to be little love lost for Google folks. That's what [...]
links for 2008-10-09
TED | TEDBlog: Why newspapers matter: John Markoff on TED.com
Tech journalist John Markoff talks about why newspapers still matter — even in the days of RSS. He believes that the newspaper "meta" experience has not been well created online. The video is a little old, but still interesting.
(tags: msm)
Angel Investor Ron Conway Emails [...]
links for 2008-10-07
Analyst: Half of 'social media campaigns' will flop | The Social - CNET News
Adam Sarner, an analyst with market research firm Gartner, has projected that over 75 percent of Fortune 1000 companies with Web sites will have undertaken some kind of online social-networking initiative for marketing or customer relations purposes. But, he added in an [...]
links for 2008-10-06
Bloomberg.com: Worldwide
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the origin of a false report on a CNN citizen journalist Web site that Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs had a heart attack and was hospitalized. Jobs and Apple need a lesson in transparency to end speculation and rumor.
(tags: apple)
BlackBerry Storm internal product [...]
