Ballmer says Google’s hiring pace is ‘insane’ Google also is reliant on a single source of revenue, Ballmer said. The company made almost all of its revenue last year from advertising sales.
“They’re still really one business, and it’s a search and advertising business,” he said. Google’s other efforts have been “cute,” he said. I’m not sure that [...]
eTel: The open source phone crowd talks to itself
An example: An otherwise excellent speaker on identity, Kaliya Hamlin, tried to suggest some potential win-win strategies in identity management that would help users while still enabling the operators to make money. She suggested that the operators offer identity services and tie them to a commerce engine, [...]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/12/indianstudentstoldtotalk/ The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai (Bombay) will turn off hostel students’ free internet access from 11pm until 12.30pm. Authorities hope the decision will get students talking to each other again. Mumbai has 13 undergraduate hostels. The really interesting part of this for me is that they’ve decided that 11PM - 12:30PM is when [...]
Joey Day : Syzygy » The machine is us
This is the second time I’ve seen this video in the past 2 days. First Bart showed it at our internal meeting yesterday, and then it showed up randomly in a Technorati tag link. It is cool though.
I had a conversation with a coworker about blogging today who got into RSS because of an internal presentation, but was asking “How do I find feeds.” The short answer is… “here’s my feedlist (~140 feeds) see if you like some.”
It did make me think though, that I basically see 2 types of blogs. Some [...]
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