Archive for April, 2007
Friday, April 27th, 2007
Thank goodness Andy Sack is trying to do something about the lack of startup/entrepreneur networking in Seattle because compared to the scene in the Bay Area there is seeming none. Since working with Spock and now Loomia down in the Bay Area and commuting back and forth between the two ...
Posted in mybloglog, netowrking | 2 Comments »
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Ok I admit it - there's a little bit of vanity when it comes to blogging. Part of that vanity is checking to see how one ranks in technorati's popularity ranking. I am currently tied for around the 1 millionth most popular blog quite - i'm huge! ;-) Thanks to some friends recent linking ...
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
"no he's not a typical microsoftie, even people at microsoft think he's an asshole"
made me laugh :)SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "quote of the day", url: "http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2007/04/26/quote-of-the-day/" });
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Definitely a step up from the e-commerce panel from my perspective. Since analytics and measurement are now so core to online marketing this panel was right up my alley. Good perspective with two vendors - Atlas and CoreMetrics - and two companies - Macys.com and Scripps - on the panel. Here ...
Posted in ad-tech, atlas, coremetrics, macys.com, scripps | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Quick post before hitting the Hitwise event tonite. Sat for the e-commerce panel which featured speakers from Levi's and Lego's Direct. Yep there was the expected discussion about how the sites are engaging user generated content and marketing which wasn't anything that earth shattering. The main takeaway for me was ...
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Down in SF this week for ad-tech san francisco. I'll be exploring ideas around how ads work within social networks and social media as well as supporting online/offline apps. I don't expect to see anything I haven't seen before, but if I do I will be sure to pass it ...
Posted in ad-tech, advertising | No Comments »
Monday, April 23rd, 2007
My friend Andy pens that Google owns the Internet in the same way Microsoft owned the PC in the 90's. I don't know if I agree that Google owns the Internet but it does currently own monetizing the Internet or at least until someone figures out how to monetize social ...
Posted in google, microsoft, myspace | 1 Comment »
Saturday, April 21st, 2007
First I tend to agree with this blog post that for the most part I was underwhelmed with web 2.0 expo. After the raging zeitgeist, that was the web 2.0 summit from last fall - it was probably too much to expect the show to live up to the hype in ...
Posted in adobe, advertising, apollo, dapper, dave mcclure, deadpool, g.ho.st, monetization, spock, web 2.0 | No Comments »
Friday, April 20th, 2007
One thing about working in online startups is to remember never burn bridges because you never who or when you will bump into someone from your past. It's a small world after all.
I had a few such experiences this past week at the Topix party around Web 2.0 Expo (BTW ...
Posted in AK, daum, loomia, lycos, startups, web 2.0, wired | 1 Comment »
Friday, April 20th, 2007
David Marks, CEO and co-founder of Loomia, has written a piece over at the new GigaOm site - Foud+Read - that talks about how startups including Loomia often change direction to be successful. Loomia's position and success today is definitely related to the changes it made a couple of years ago. ...
Posted in judy's book, loomia, loudeye, startups | No Comments »
