Aapl’s numbers
For a good break down of Apple’s earnings numbers release Wednesday, take a look here. The quarter was simply amazing and Apple continues to experience explosive growth. Some of the highlights (in my opinion): the amazing ipod…Apple shipped 21.1 million ipods in Q1 resulting in an astonishing $3.43 billion in revenues or half the company’s […]
Predicting the Trends
As I’ve said before, the more shopping, communicating, news gathering, and just flat out living people do online the more capable good web stats are at predicting trends, sales, and even votes. Once again today Hitwise announced their successful prediction of a winner in the the UK version of Dancing with the Stars named Strictly […]
How not to process an online customer service claim
I”m incredibly annoyed with Yahoo Search Marketing in a number of ways, but the most pressing is the fact that we have money locked in our account with no way to get it out. Basically they have a minimum charge amount that we can’t remove or spend, and whenever our account balance approaches our daily […]
The coming of automated scheduling
In my various part time jobs throughout high school (especially at the mall and at a restaurant) and college, I often complained about the scheduling (because I wanted to be there when I had to do the least amount of work), but I also thought that the system could be managed much better. I thought […]
Google OS and embedded affiliates
Jason Calacanis has a post with pics and rumors of the Google operating system. He thinks that Google will partner with a major PC manufacturer, such as Dell or HP, over the next year and will sell a pc that comes equipped with a google OS (that is instead of windows) at cost or slightly […]
linkedin worth $250 Million
Mashable has a post about LinkedIn supposedly being valued at roughly $250 Million in their latest round of funding. LinkedIn is expected to generate $45 to $65 million in sales in 2007, and $100 million in 2008. They are also profitable and boast 8 million users. I think this seems like a reasonable valuation, and […]
Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda…
I just read about Jaxtr, a company that lets users make free calls generated by a widget on their myspace profiles. It lets users take private phone calls from myspace visitors, without revealing their phone numbers. While I think this is cool, I don’t really find it that useful and I doubt that it will […]
The Future of the web
In this month’s Fortune Magazine, there is a great article on “Finding the next Google,” in which they talk about the next big thing on the web. They believe that Google rode the wave of finding to incredible profitability, realizing that people would use the web to find specific items or bits of information. The […]
Search trends for better investments?
Hitwise, a great blog that talks about general web traffic patterns, had an interesting post this morning about Heelys the company that makes those shoes that have built in wheels. I remember seeing those shoes years ago, but only recently have I started to see them everywhere. The company went public this week and the […]
challenging your perspective
I am reading Brian Greene’s The Fabric of the Cosmos and it really is making my head spin. Greene discusses everything from the description of reality and spacetime as accepted in modern physics to the origins of the universe and the big bang. While I’ve always been somewhat of a space geek and an admirer […]