Archive for January, 2006

Jan
18

Economist: St Lawrence of Google

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Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, has always wanted to change the world. He is well on his way

Read this interesting article about Larry Page published by The Economist.

This is interesting release by well-known company, one of the oldest venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners where they admitted their biggest mistakes and lost chances. This is one more proof that even professionals make mistakes.

http://bvp.com/port/anti.asp

Jan
13

Yahoo! Bought Webjay, AOL Bought Truveo

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Truveo

There were two interesting acquisitions several days ago. Yahoo! purchased Webjay, social networking company that enables users to make and share music playlists, and AOL bought video search engine Truveo.

10. Your kids still believe the Googlebot is bringing the Christmas presents.
9. Your reply to “How are you” is “I’m feeling lucky”, combined with a clicking gesture.
8. You shout at the librarian when she takes more than 0.1 seconds to find your book.
7. You just lost a case in court to name your newborn son “Google”.
6. You think of Google as your second-best friend, but lately consider it to get into first position.
5. Your Google shirt is losing color.
4. When people talk to you, you try to optimize their keywords.
3. Your last three Sunday family trips have been to the Googleplex.
2. You are convinced “What’s your PageRank?” is a good pick-up line.

And the number one sign you are addicted to Google:
1. You are completely clueless without a computer.

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Jan
10

Another Great Tech Podcasts Site

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We have mentioned IT Conversations earlier, and now we can recommend you another great place if you are interested in technology podcasts. That is this WEEK in TECH site. Podcasts are great way for learning new things.