July 2010
6 posts
Yahoo Japan to switch to Google's search engine →
How this is even possible is beyond me. Yahoo only owns 1/3 of Yahoo Japan, which allows Y! Japan to abandon their own namesake?
Don't mess with this guy...
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
1 post
March 2010
3 posts
February 2010
5 posts
January 2010
2 posts
December 2009
5 posts
November 2009
7 posts
Having Trouble Coming Up with Christmas Ideas
Mom is demanding a list…yikes. So far it includes only socks (I am lame).
Death of a Once Cool Site
Used to really like Killer Startups but the site has really sold out lately. Just checking out the Site Reviews category a second ago and was amazing at the junk on there. Every single site featured started with fro___. Looks like they’ve hired someone to just write up every single website as a “Killer Startup” in an effort to drive more traffic to the site. Looking deeper at...
Pony Pony Run Run - Love Veritable
Ford Reports Nearly $1 Billion Profit →
Bravo for the men and women down in Dearborn. A little bright news for the metro Detroit area is always welcome…
Low Res Girl →
Prob my favorite Halloween costume that I’ve come across this year. Not sure my friends are quite geeky enough to dig this, but its on the short list for my costume next year…
August 2009
1 post
July 2009
3 posts
Yahoo Gives Up Search and Gets Nothing Back
Yesterday’s Yahoo-Microsoft search deal is a complete mystery to me from Yahoo’s perspective. They have now essentially given up on search and handed over their current #2 market share to Steve Ballmer & Co. all in an effort to reduce costs? Now I realize that reducing costs is critical for companies right now, but this move effectively eliminates Yahoo from the search game. With...
"It is better to know some of the questions than...
James Thurber
June 2009
9 posts
4 tags
BizEquity - Rapid Online Company Valuations
Just stumbled across BizEquity.com which with just a few parameters of information can help you valuate a business. Not entirely clear how the valuation works, but from the inputs that it asked me for when trying it out, it looks like the CAPM using a number of different variables to come up with the most accurate discount rate.
There’s even an Accuracy gauge that shows you how accurate...
2 tags
Uncharted Video Game to Movie →
My parents, who for whatever reason, bought a PS3 when what they really wanted was a Bluray player also ended up with the PS3 game, Uncharted somehow, which I’ve spent a few hours (out of sheer curiosity) playing and was surprised and how good of a game it was. However, I’m shocked to hear that its been picked up for a movie. Does Hollywood really have that hard of a time finding...
Pixar Caught Being Good →
Don’t hear about companies doing good like this quite often enough.
Bing - Better Search, Bizarre Marketing
Bing.com is popping up everywhere right now. Tv ads, media mentions, lots of blog coverage, heck Steve Ballmer even name dropped Bing when I was at The National Summit yesterday. But I’ve also noticed some really bizarre advertising going on with Bing through Google AdSense.
See here on a this page that hit the Digg homepage yesterday and there’s an AdSense ad for...
Yahoo Spends $90,965 Per Day On Google Ads →
Yahoo doing search arbitrage with Google ads. I knew a number of other sites were doing this but surprised to find out that Yahoo is. Never noticed their ads on Google before…
May 2009
1 post
TechCrunch is Back
There have been some grumbling about the quality of TechCrunch falling off big time lately but this latest on last.fm might just put an end to that. Michael Arrington and crew serve up some juicy tidbits on the last.fm, CBS, RIAA fiasco…
April 2009
2 posts
2018-2022 US World Cup Bid List - World Soccer →
Ann Arbor is on the World Cup bid list. Seriously? Could be pretty great to catch a World Cup match just down the street.
March 2009
1 post
January 2009
9 posts
iStockPhoto Gets Even Worse
I posted a few days back about how poor my experience with iStockPhoto has been. Well..after writing that post I received another email from them that seemed to clear things up, but in fact just made matters worse.
First I was told to get the 10 free photos I had to go to: http://www.istockphoto.com/imageoffer.php?lpid=join-istock well that’s actually not a valid page. Then i was told that...