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Google Ownz y00

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

The Wired interview with Google’s Eric Schmidt just confirms what I keep telling everyone who harps on the ‘Don’t be Evil!’ thing — ie, “But Google is GOOD! They have ‘Don’t Be Evil’ as a corporate motto!”
Me: Yeah, let’s define evil, shall we?
Google is pure Web 2.0 in the sense of how they collect and [...]

Updating Local Data for Search

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

During a presentation to members of the marketing team at work yesterday, one question kept coming out from account managers and marketers about creating Google Local/Yahoo Local/Live Local listings, and correcting them when they’re pulling from bad data:
Why aren’t we doing this FOR clients?
In some ways, some of the elements of setting up for local [...]

Nostalgia: Web 2.0 is the Old Web

Monday, March 5th, 2007

Every so often, I get nostalgic for Days Of Olde(tm) and the early days of the Web. Those magical days when the Web was all Webrings (invariably of people’s D-n-D characters), lists of CDs, and pictures of people’s cats. On GeoCities.
Then I consider several things:

In 1996, I wanted to move from Chicago to Minneapolis. I [...]

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