September 2009
58 posts
SF Giants sign Brad Penny for $75k - legit no. 5 starter! http://bit.ly/HUhJf
Is MEMS hitting the fast lane to become shining star of semi industry? http://bit.ly/hSA5F
Do you refer to your customers as “logos”? I hope not, imagine what they’d think if they knew you did…
August 2009
56 posts
Key to the EDA space is consolidation: bad if you are still in devt, good if you are winning customers http://bit.ly/1NjOms
Newspaper online ad revs sucked less than offline, but still sucked. More innovation still needed http://bit.ly/JXgOt
SF Giants as VC startups: Cain=Facebook, Lincecum=Twitter, Zito=MySpace, Martinez=deadpool
Are customers synching their roadmaps to yours, or the other way around? Better hope its the former if you want to be a leader
Guess who’s catering our elem school Fall picnic in Menlo Park (<1 mi. from Stanford)? That’s right, TopDog http://bit.ly/baUYe
Stanford’s Coach Harbaugh asks for and gets his $70,000 toilet http://bit.ly/DiMOP
On their wedding registry: wk of RedBull, EC2 for a wk, VC lunch & feed an eng. for a day http://bit.ly/Q21Xp http://bit.ly/Expwd
Latency kills. Amazon: 100ms latency=1% drop in revenue; Google: 500ms latency=20% drop in search usage http://bit.ly/2A4iI
WatchLatency Kills:
Amazon says: 100ms latency = 1% drop in sales
Google says: 500ms latency = 20% drop in search usage
Nothing speaks more loudly than customers joining you in an announcement. And a lack of them usually means you don’t have any yet
I doubt my kids’ Lego collection is enough to do this… that’s cool… http://bit.ly/tlAqk
Does PR firm Reverb Communications post fake reviews for their clients? Great reporting by @mobilecrunch http://bit.ly/13cGg9
Now THIS is awesome PR. Lombard Street in SF turned into Candyland board (RT @beninato, ryan_mcintyre) http://bit.ly/3g4LjH
I think summer needs a summer…
Now that’s a chicken sandwich… bacon sandwiched between 2 KFC fried chicken patties used as bread… http://bit.ly/zjbBm
CMOS MEMS gaining momentum… http://bit.ly/FQYG2 RT @ElectronicsNews
In the market for a GPS? Check out this slick BestBuy GPS selector, done via their Remix API (from Mashery) http://bit.ly/ITF67
2000-user stress test shows that Amazon, Google and MSFT clouds have wildly varying performance results http://bit.ly/ITBN5
What have you had better success with: having a salesperson doing marketing, or a marketing person doing sales?
WatchTaco Bell’s new GREEN initiative — all foods contain nothing natural whatsoever!
use Twitblock to analyze and filter out Twitter spam followers http://bit.ly/ewjv1
The rise of we-commerce… http://bit.ly/w3uAE
BizWeek: A decentralized web - Incentivizing 3rd parties to develop on behalf of your brand http://bit.ly/3JMbVB #mashery #api
PE or VC? Mark Hoffman from Enquisite says VC in BusinessWeek debate http://bit.ly/4QDzW
Great video featuring stats on the impact of social media today: http://bit.ly/h1C9P
The Internet in 1969… Fingertip shopping and an electronic correspondence machine, wow! http://bit.ly/inV7x
Startup CEO: Is your mkt/product ready enough such that sales can close w/o having to wheel the Company Yoda out to support the effort?
Search analytics to become a major category and a direct extension of web analytics http://bit.ly/J1ppw RT @sramana #enquisite
When selling to BD/Mktg, talk revolution; if to IT/Eng, talk evolution; if to CEO, talk bout whatever they want to talk about
Invaluable tips for parents, esp those with newborns: http://bit.ly/y3nrX (thanks, James W.)
My high school is now a farm… http://bit.ly/Tnpg6
If you have one of these, it could get a Wii bit hot! Gives a whole new meaning to having a hot hand… http://bit.ly/Nuepq
The aaS grab: Cloud Stack is unfolding in front of our eyes. Big guys scrambling for app dev tools, BI, performance eng., API, etc
Been playing with the Flip camera for a month or so… novelty has worn off faster than I thought it would http://bit.ly/6EXbp
Leon and Lebron… http://bit.ly/SkpTA
wow, a new business model from a U.S. airline… “all you can eat” - Go JetBlue: http://bit.ly/9gv7g
Is your address book up to date? When was the last time you backed up your LinkedIn contacts? It’s easy: http://bit.ly/hsMwB
Backing up your LinkedIn contacts
How often does it occur where you are sending an email to someone you haven’t been in contact with for awhile, only to discover that they have left the company and that their email address is no longer valid? It happens to me pretty frequently, and usually at a time when I really need to contact that person. I can usually track it down, but it takes a good bit of effort, and can take time...
Is this going to be an El Nino rainy winter for California? http://bit.ly/hKeCO
Loved this piece… a great inspirational story of Dad and Son http://bit.ly/TsjmR RT @pauladrum
On Java update, Carbonite pops a “30 dy trial” that you have to opt out of, which is B.S. Win users on prod merit and good referrals!
The world needs, and finally has, an alternative to PayPal… congrats to oneTXT, a new Mashery customer http://bit.ly/2rgBJU
