[preamble: I started writing this post yesterday, before rumors started circulating that Google was launching a venture fund. My first thought was to abandon the post as some might think I was simply recommending that Microsoft follow Google's lead. But what I have in mind is different and still needs to be said.] Microsoft is [...]
Continue Reading →Over the years I’ve come to know a number of very successful people. Obviously the definition of success varies from person to person. If you’re an environmentalist, success might be measured by the number of trees you’ve preserved. If you’re an emergency room physician it might be lives saved. If you’re an artist, success might [...]
Continue Reading →We have a special blist coupon code for $100 off registration for the 2008 Defrag conference – just enter the code “blst1” when you register for Defrag before August 15th, here. Kevin Merritt will be speaking at Defrag and spreading the word about democratizing data. We’d love for you to come to Defrag and join [...]
Continue Reading →It’s been a little over a week since I bricked upgraded my iPhone to version 2.0. Other than the upgrade itself, I’ve been impressed with the new iPhone software. Here are the first 10 applications I’ve installed so far. 1. Twitterific. Free. This is a great app for posting to and reading tweets on Twitter. [...]
Continue Reading →My last blog post about blist positioning and our new tagline may have been premature without our new supporting website. For those customers who are reading this post through an RSS reader, and haven’t visited www.blist.com in a while, I urge you to point your browser to us and see the changes we’ve made. We’ve [...]
Continue Reading →Sunil Bharti Mittal is a self-made billionaire. Well, actually he’s a billionaire 11 times over, but who’s counting? Follow this link and either watch the video or read the transcript of Mittal being interviewed. It recounts how he started his first business at 18 with $1,500 loaned to him by his father and methodically grew [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve been updating blist pretty often lately. Most of the changes have been minor and subtle or subterranean. We haven’t called them out. For example, last week we replaced the default progress meter with what’s a called a pre-loader: It’s just slightly more entertaining and informative for the 3 or 4 seconds while you wait [...]
Continue Reading →Rightfully, there’s a lot of excitement around Adobe, Google and Yahoo cooperating to index web content contained in SWF files. I am also particularly interested to follow Ryan Stewart’s Flash SEO contest. In his post, Ryan briefly alludes to some outstanding concerns and unaddressed issues regarding SWF indexing. I’ve tried to dig in to all [...]
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