Archive for November, 2006

Recommendations picking up stream

Another reference to recommendations today on John Cook’s Venture blog.  Good article.
Recommendations on the Internet


New Valleywag

Nick Denton has taken over Valleywag and really changed things around.  I HATE the look, but I am really enjoying the new content.  It’s alot more business minded and gets to issues that I would rather know than the old Valleywag.  They’re looking for a new editor, and I hope that whoever lands the job [...]


The Zune is stumbling out of the gate…

Microsoft unveiled their Zune, their new iPod competitor, yesterday and released it today.  After one day it seems like a disaster.  I know you can’t judge items on one day, but it is not a good launching point.  A few things I have seen so far today.
Engadget (the largest tech review site online), reviews installing [...]


One company to kick off the holiday season

I think that the changing of decor at a single location tells America that it is now Christmas time. That location is Starbucks and they change their decor to red cups, ornament hanging, Christmas music playing overkill this morning. It seems that since the average Starbucks customer goes into a Starbucks over once a week, [...]


Papers finally warming up to the web

Two stories coming out in the past two days about how old media is finally adapting and growing with new media. The USA Today is going to be using user created content to fill some of their pages with what should be more local, true to the street content. Also, coming out yesterday was news [...]


Utube.com now suing YouTube.com

I wrote about this story awhile ago, about how Utube.com is now getting alot of traffic due to people trying to find YouTube.com.  Now the Universal Tube company, who had been offered $1M for their domain name, is suing YouTube for using their name.
Just in case you forgot, Google bought YouTube a few weeks ago [...]


Otis.OtisKimzey.com

If you want to see the boring daily life events of Otis, checkout the sub-domain of otis.otiskimzey.com.  I am going to try to write more business articles on this site.  If you miss reading what happened in Otis’ life today checkout the other site, there’s a link on the left (I hope it’s there at [...]