February 2010
27 posts
“So in a world of more quick flips, we need to increase the size of options...”
– Memo to CEOs & Founders: Stop Being Such Cheap Bastards
Sawickipedia: Ignoring the flawed statement that no one will ever work for a startup unless they feel they can get rich (plenty of jobs are for love not money), the issue is if you want to sell early don’t raise institutional money....
Wal-Mart Agrees to Buy Vudu, an Online Movie... →
caterpillarcowboy:
infoneer-pulse:
The retail giant said on Monday that it had agreed to buy Vudu, a Silicon Valley start-up whose three-year-old online movie service is being built into an increasing number of televisions and Blu-ray players.
Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but a person briefed on the deal said the price for the company, which raised $60 million in capital, was...
“Google executives likely reckoned that in a single day Buzz would garner more...”
– Buzz launch wasn’t flawed, Google’s intentions are « counternotions (via secondverse)
Yup
(via tedr)
Sawickipedia: And once again Gevil shows it’s Gevil. Why is anyone still surprised at this point? Gevil does what is best for Gevil - nothing else.
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“Tens of thousands of real flowers were sold in the two weeks leading up to...”
– EA’s PlayFish: Big Real-World Sales In Virtual Goods Game « Velocity - Forbes.com (via tedr)
Sawickipedia: Great contextual advertising. The challenge w/ these in game (and in content) promotions is scaling them - one off wins don’t make a gazillion dollar business unfortunately. ...
“As Todd Teresi, chief revenue officer for Quantcast, explained, in the past...”
– MTVN, Quantcast to Laser-Target Web Video Ads
Rafer sez: I love this, a “mass scale inference model.” It’s just a bigger, broader panel, a MUCH bigger, broader panel, but that wouldn’t market nearly as well.
(via rafer)
Sawickipedia: LOLOLOLOL oh this made me laugh - quantcast making fun of...
“Joe Kraus (founder of Excite and later Jotspot) and the fellas from Wufoo. Both...”
– Freemium Founders: Start Charging for Things Today! – Tony Wright dot com
Sawickipedia: I’ve heard similar feedback from social gaming companies who are charging for virtual goods. Essentially all the users who are used to the site/game/goods being 100% free, assume it always will and...
“A “referral URL” is one of many signals we use to deliver...”
– Inside AdSense: Better contextual matching
Sawickipedia: Search re-targeting comes to the mothership. Those ad networks who had been making a living selling search KW retargeting just all said “Fuck, We’re Scewed.”
As @Rafer and I have been talking a lot amongst our friends and...
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“Strangely though, the data revolution, at least as it relates to advertising,...”
– Jonathan Mendez’s Blog: Links vs. Cookies: A Tale of Two Web Economies
Sawickipedia: Jonathan is right to point how the data in the URL is being largely unused for ad targeting today. And yes the cookie is the hot data platform for data exchange for ad targeting today. However at Lookery,...
“Whenever I see a brilliant kid decide to join Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, or...”
– Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog
“This is not like cheating on your wife. [Just expelled State Senator Hiram...”
– New York Senate Moves Toward Expelling Monserrate - NYTimes.com
Sawickipedia: For anyone who thinks California state gov’t and politics are a mess, I refer you to my home state of NY. Egads it’s FUBAR.
“China’s leaders have grown impatient with lectures on economic policy from their...”
– China Shows Little Patience for U.S. Currency Pressure - NYTimes.com
Sawickipedia: Yea who has the money, controls the strings. China has us by the nards and it knows it. Yeah, they’re really going to listen to any lectures on sobriety from what it likely perceives as drunken sailors. (via...
“China’s leaders have grown impatient with lectures on economic policy from their...”
– China Shows Little Patience for U.S. Currency Pressure - NYTimes.com
Sawickipedia: Yea who has the money, controls the strings. China has us by the nards and it knows it. Yeah, they’re really going to listen to any lectures on sobriety from what it likely perceives as drunken sailors.
“Entitled to live in debt for ever?
What is truly worrying, though, is the...”
– America’s budget: Clueless in Washington | The Economist
Sawickipedia: If Obama is the closest we’ve come to an honest parent in the presidency and likely to get, then we’re screwed. Even a more honest pol like BO i believe wants to be can’t touch Social Security then...
“Unlike previous racist dictatorships, the North Korean one has actually...”
– Kim Jong-il’s regime is even weirder and more despicable than you thought. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
Sawickipedia: Sad. So very sad.
“Would that it were so … we might have a shot at killing off farm...”
– Damn Those Tricksy Republicans With Their Hate and Their Crop Subsidies! - Megan McArdle
Sawickipedia: I can’t wait for the day we kill farm subsidies. Can’t wait. Hopefully the Real Food movement will help since it tends to focus on paying market rates (mostly directly) to farmers....
“it is absurd to deny the world has warmed over the last 150 years as the little...”
– Climate Skeptic
Sawickipedia: The climate alarmists look more and more like the geo-centric modelers adding more and more contortions to make their desired hypothesis “work”.
“Glam Media, a vertical advertising network, has raised its fifth round of...”
– Glam Media On A Roll: Raises $50 Million In Private Equity At $750 Million Valuation
Sawickipedia: WTF!?!?!? Don’t these investors look at comparables? Glam is an ad network. Those normally get valued at 3 to 5x rev. This crazy.
“Adobe supports HTML and its evolution and we look forward to adding more...”
– Open Access to Content and Applications (Adobe Featured Blogs)
Sawickipedia: LOLOLOLOL. HAHAHAHA. Phew, OMG what a way to start the morning w/ a good belly laugh. I can’t believe how self-serving this comment is from the CTO of Adobe. HTML5 and open-standard video is coming fast and...
“Both mother and son are vocal opponents of abortion, though there’s a curious...”
– Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times
It appears that the Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad might be predicated on a lie. Why am I not surprised? You’ve just been given a gift CBS. Take it. Pull the ad.
(via ericmortensen)
(via tedr)
Sawickipedia: The right approach is to see whether CBS would allow a...