…one hire at a time:
http://no2google.wordpress.com/
Interesting reading if you’re interested in the inside scoop of what it’s like working for MS or Google.
Archive for June, 2007
Denying Google’s global empire…
29 June, 2007My Toyota is fantastic…
28 June, 2007..because I’m guessing that Twenty120 is a campaign site of theirs? David Herbrucks’ short is nice in particluar.
Feedburner saves the day
27 June, 2007For all you people wanting to relay your Twitters to Jaiku (but can’t due to Jaikus poor feed management feature), Feedburner will save the day. Just add your twitter feed (don’t forget to insert the login:password@ before) to Feedburner and then add the Feedburner feed to Jaiku and you’re all set!
The loooooooong tail of search
26 June, 2007Udi Manber from Google in his presentation “Search is a hard problem”:
“20 to 25% of the queries we see today, we have never seen before”
Looks like they have their work cut out for them 
Finally some help
26 June, 2007I’m lovin’ it
19 June, 2007After trying out various more or less complex PM-apps for the mac (Merlin2, FastTrack, ProjectX etc.) I decided to go for OmniPlan, which is nothing short of fabulous. Sure, it might not have the workgroup-support of Merlin or ready-made web access of ProjectX but it does the job extremely well. Already a proud owner and addicted user of of OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner, this seems logical. Can’t wait for OmniFocus, the OmniGroup’s productivity app, which promises to be something of a holy graal for us GTD-addicts. Sweet.
Finally some future
7 June, 2007Coudal was terrific, making a down to earth and crystal clear presentation of The Deck, which is my favorite up and coming ad network. Favorite quote (on ads integrated in RSS-feeds): “We are testing some technology on this… ah… technology… it’s not actually so much technology as it is a guy hacking together some code”. Brilliant.
At the Future of Online Advertising
7 June, 2007Sitting in Gotham Hall, NYC and listening in on a product presentation for Pay per post, a well packaged, yet forced attempt to better monetize blogs. Best of the day was Greg Stuart of former IAB-fame, who talked about the research conducted for the writing of “What sticks”, which I picked up at Barnes & Noble at lunch 
Also, Right Media followed Yahoo and Feedback followed Google… how ironic is that?
All in all, I get the impression that this event is alot more about the future of advertising, than the future of online advertising.The atmosphere is alot less relaxed and avant garde than Web 2.0 was, maybe it’s NYC, maybe it’s a less progressive crowd. Probably both. So far I haven’t seen anything spectacular, but Jim Coudal from The Deck is speaking in an hour, which should be awesome.
