Monthly Archives: May 2005

Spontaneous geek dinner tonight in Palo Alto

Chris Yey was kind enough to invite me to HBS Tech’s Business 2010 dinner tonight. I’m headed there and expect to meet up with the always enlightening and entertaining Jeff Clavier. I tried to rope Eleanor in, but as usual,

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TechDirt forgets the SEM Golden Rule

TechDirt (which recently got great write-up from the SF Chronicle — congrats to Mike Masnick and crew!) responds to a SiliconBeat post by Michael Bazeley about the prospects of Google being accused of predatory pricing given its recent track record

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Another day, another job site: Work.com officially live

socalTECH notes that Business.com has officially taken the wraps off their new job site, Work.com, noting that: “The company reports that its beta test of the service has attracted 400,000 professionals a month looking to connect with employers.” Note that

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Customer Service 2.0 MIA

With all the “2.0” talk these days (Web, Identity, Where, etc), I thought I’d quickly react to this piece by John Battelle criticizing Google’s (lack of) advertiser customer service by relaying two of my recent experiences… First, Feedster. I blew

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ShopLocal.com needs RSS already

Dear Newspaper Friends: So I’ve been waiting… and waiting… and… still no RSS from ShopLocal.com. RSS is slowly but surely finding its way into your newspapers and (some sections of your) classifieds, but nothing from a service for which RSS

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Employment Classified Asymptotic Curve Continues

I received an email (hat tip and thanks: M.B.) about the launch of JobCentral.com, the new employment site by former Monster founder, William (Bill) Warren. A few things of note: 1. Warren is leveraging an association named DirectEmployers (it’s unclear

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