Monthly Archives: May 2005

Om savages Yahoo Music… justified?

Om Malik, a smart guy who I often agree with, writes that Yahoo Music is “playing in mono” because, “…it works only on Windows XP, it works with about a dozen music players, and doesn’t support Mac. In music industry

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Master Debaters

Pete over at PC4Media listed my name in a post regarding the uproar over the AO/Technorati “OpenMedia 100 list”. The title of this post is a spin on Pete’s, which while absolutely hysterical (what a way to start my day

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buzzhit! almost back up to full speed

It looks like DNS propagation from my hosting change is finally starting to take place… which means that you should begin to consistently get pages without broken links, emails that don’t bounce back, etc. Joy! The good news from all

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FeedBurner launches Total Stats Pro

FeedBurner has announced the availability of Total Stats Pro, their for-fee (i.e., Premium) Feed measurement/reporting service; remaining consistent with the company’s positioning, they’ve simultaneously announced welcome additions to their free reporting offering. Where does that put things? FeedBurner sums it

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Reading between the "we’re hiring" lines

Lean start-ups (with a clue) generally don’t grow their teams substantially unless something else is afoot… So it was with more than a small smirk that I read Scott Rafer’s post that Feedster is hiring a Sys Admin, Sr. Engineer

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Supernova Pre-Pre-Dinner Tomorrow in SF

Just hit the refresh button, and amazingly enough, Kevin Webach, super producer of upcoming conference Supernova, has managed to sell 100 seats (and counting) for an impromptu dinner/get-together up in SF tomorrow night. [Hat tip Jeff Clavier] I’ll be there

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Google Meets the Fockers

The reaction to Google Web Accelerator is in, and it doesn’t look good: Greg Linden tries to take an even tone, but is eventually overwhelmed by GWA’s bugs, including ‘pre-fetching delete actions’ and being served pages using someone else’s login

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Deals and new company sightings

Playing catch-up over the last week or so… will update this post a couple of times… socalTECH is reporting that Experian has acquired LowerMyBills.com for a very impressive $330MM + $50MM earn-out. LowerMyBills will be part of Experian Consumer Direct,

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My chat with Ari Jacoby, CEO VoiceStar

I sat down for a casual breakfast and stream-of-consciousness chat with Ari Jacoby, CEO, VoiceStar, a few weeks back (during the Kelsey show) and managed to take a few notes amidst talking, listening, eating and various stop-ins from passer’s by.

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Google Web Accelerator (GWA) Beta

I’m about to head out, but just saw a post from Search Engine Watch about Google Web Accelerator (GWA), a new beta software client released by Google Labs (from the FAQ): “1. What is Google Web Accelerator?Google Web Accelerator is

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