Monthly Archives: October 2007

Ask’s Take on Halloween

I think “FAIL” is the only comment I have on this. Click for teh full.

Google $700

This (GOOG > $700 link) is filed under: never assume that knowledge is distributed evenly even if you think the stock market prices information efficiently. Believe that you are smarter than they. Let your profits run.
Disclaimer: I sold at $400. Boohoo.

Riches of the Niches

Note to self: use Riches of the Niches more instead of ‘long tail’ as substantially funner to say.
This post will be filed under lulz, really.
The amount of net-native venture capitalists in Europe is really low. O RLY? T*** or GTFO ^^ Most important is never to forget:

I should start a puzzler, like Valerie (thanks for [...]

Counting Web Traffic

Babies can’t count but adults can. The question in humans is, of course, whether we have to learn numbers or whether “our numbers systems comes online as we mature” (see nature/nurture, evolutionary psychology, HAI Steven/KTHXBAI Noam etc.).

Long story short, it’s clear to anyone even remotely involved with online advertising that we don’t quite know how [...]

uncov - thanks for all the funny

uncov is still one of the brightest beacon of hilarious on the internet. For that, I salute them.
Please go read their post on icon language web app Zlango (or visit Zlango). A brief summary of uncov’s review:

Mean, but brilliant. Oh and definitely NSFW if you’re at a corporate.

Tumblr

As an ex-weblogging community founder, I’m very happy to hear that tumblr has raised money from Fred Wilson and Co at Union Square Ventures.

Weblogging communities have all experienced explosive growth but few have been able to monetize it well. Examples are Blogger, Livejournal, Xanga and Diaryland. Tumblr is a more light-weight, fun approach and the [...]

PCs selling like hotcakes

So, what do consumers want this Xmas? At least in the US, the list is:
1. PCs
2. Peace & happiness
3. Big screen TV
4. Clothes
5. Money
Kinda sums up my preferences as well, though I think there’s a tangent hitting my indifference curve for marginal utility of a new gaming PC depending on what level of peace and [...]

Exploits of a Mom

LOL, hard. And of course, hail to xkcd.

LinkedIn Fact Spam

Email sig:
“Fact: More people have joined LinkedIn than live in Sweden
© 2007, LinkedIn Corporation”
Meh. Stop picking on the Swedes. Also, fact: Norway has more fighter jets per capita than any other nation in the world. Go Norsemen!
P.S. Wow, this is such a random blog post. More substance to follow, promise.

Proximic

Got some nice press over the last few days.
Gz Jörg, Proximic sounds like a fantastic business. Readers, check out the online demos.

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