Archive for March, 2007

the $1.6 million dollar kid

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

The WSJ ran a story in their weekend edition showing how prolific parents are now spending upwards of $1.6 million raising their kids to the age of 17. My first reaction reading the headline was utter horror having one kid and another on the way. Then as a ...

google is the man.

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

According to the IAB, Internet ad spending topped $4.2 billion for q3 2006. What's amazing is that Google accounted for $2.7 billion or 65% of the market for online ad spending! Wow. What's interesting about that stat is Google only represents about 10 billion page views out of the roughly 1.5 ...

Startup People

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

I was able to attend the PaidContent.org Seattle Mixer tonite. It was great to run into old faces dating back to my early days in Seattle at encoding.com (later known as Loudeye). One point brought home again is that startup people are startup people. The craziness, chaos ...