You Too Can YouTube
The mission of the Snelling Center for Government is to foster responsible and ethical civic leadership, encourage public service by private citizens, and promote informed citizen participation in shaping public policy in Vermont. It was established in honor of former Governor Richard Snelling whom I had the honor of working for as Transportation Secretary a long time ago A friend...
Facebook Proves a Point
Facebook is a wonderful example of the next wave of blockbuster new Web apps. Didn’t realize that though until I read Andy Kessler’s interview with 22 year old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is reputed to have already turned down a billion dollar plus offer for the site from Yahoo!Facebook’s mission statement tells the story once you look at it...
Whoops
My post from last night on easyJet.com was missing its first half. Can't blame that on easyJet, though; I did it myself. Now fixed here....
easyJet Is Cheap
Repost: Beginning was initially missing due to jet lag. In all senses of the word, easyJet is cheap; they make an art out of cheapness. Sunday was my first time flying on a European deep discount airline. Didn’t love it but got a convenient direct flight from Ljubljana (which I misspelled in a prior post) to London. Did I mention...
Notes from Ljubljana
Embarrassing corrections: I managed to misspell the names of both cities in Slovenia which I mentioned including the city in the title. Of course, sharp-eyed readers corrected me and I’ve corrected the post and its title. Am at the airport in Ljubljana (LJU) waiting for my easyJet flight to London Stansted (STN) comfortably seated next to a post with an...
One end-user’s perspective: ‘vendors don’t get SOA’
Vendors don't seem to get -- or maybe just don't want to get -- SOA
SOA vendors get low marks in BPM, high marks in ‘roadmap honesty’
In a new side-by-side rating of 20 critical SOA features, most vendors did not score well in support of business process management or registry. But most did well in regards to 'roadmap honesty,' which can be assumed to mean sticking to their promises, and adherence to standards. So there's hope.
Meet AOS, the polar opposite of SOA
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) or Agglomeration Of Services (AOS)? Here's a test to see what you may have.
Moving on.
Alex Barnett here...a quick one: This will be my last post on blogs.msdn.com as I'm leaving Microsoft at the end of March 2007. If you're still subscribed to my RSS feed on blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn please note this blog won't be updated again from March 30th. If you want to keep up with what I'm up to go here.
Staying at home for SES NYC 2007
Hey everybody, I talked about my travel plans earlier this year and wanted to give you a quick update. Im staying at home for SES NYC 2007, still planning on taking a fair chunk of May off, and planning to hit the Search Marketing Expo (SMX) conference in June.
Why am I skipping SES NYC? Well, [...]
Canonicalization update
Its almost not worth mentioning, but I know one website noticed this, so Ill talk about it. Last week there was an update to how we canonicalize a small number of urls. What is canonicalization again? Read this previous post, or see this post by John Andrews to see all the ways that you can [...]
March Sadness
North Carolina got knocked out of the 2007 NCAA basketball tournament by Georgetown today. The Hoyas played well, so I dont begrudge them the win.
My usual litmus test for a good tournament is Did one of my teams make it to the Final Four? Kentucky got knocked out in the second round, but Kansas had [...]
The Madness of Crowds, And What to Do About It
So, the
Kathy Sierra bullying thing is pretty awful.
In fact, I also have an anonymous dude who attacks me. Not with death threats, to be sure, but amazingly enough, he's devoted almost an
entire blog to attacking me (not linking).
There is a bigger picture here. This chronicle of lameness also points squarely to the amazingly willful ignorance of the Valley in looking at the real world.
There, attacks like these - and lemme be specific here - attacks where mobs of people are
drawn together specifically to gang up on a much smaller number - have been g
Thinking Strategically About Search
"...This brings us to the question of shoe leather and what Google can do to support those who want to produce original content."Spot the flaw in
this statement?
It will be, ultimately, Google's Achilles Heel.
Google has a very weak incentive to "support" content of quality. Put another way, Google's incentive to "support" content creators diminishes in quality.
Think about this intuitively: the more crap there is, the more stuff you have to wade through - the happier Google is (at least in the short run).
Let me put this even more succinctly.
Google doe I Don't Believe in Walled Gardens
For those interested in Sun's organization charts (which are, in effect, an expression of my priorities), what's below is the message I sent to all of Sun earlier today. Keeping everyone up to speed on where we're headed is a big part of my job (I'd argue, one of my biggest) - so if you're interested in such things, read on. (And yes, I thought about simply posting this on my blog this morning - but I didn't want folks inside Sun finding out about an organizational change via an external source - thus, the courtesy of an internal email first.)
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To: All of Sun
From: Jonathan Schwartz
Subject: Announcing a new business, and a new leader (or two)
I announced a few organiza
Who's the Economic Fraud Now?
It's unkind and prejudicial for me to say this, but when I read about David Stockman being charged with bank fraud, I had a good laugh. Stockman gained his notoriety as director of the Office of Management and Budget during...
The Gift Of Work
Guy Kawasaki and I picked up our undergraduate degrees at Stanford the same year (1976). Our names were alphabetized onto the same page in the class yearbook. In 1997, we formed a company together ... and for years, our lovely...
GrabPERF is looking for measurement locations
Steven Pierzchala, who runs the GrabPERF project (full disclosure: Technorati owns the site) is looking for more measurement locations. For those of you who don't know about GrabPERF, it is a free resource for performance monitoring - and Steven offers it for free, in public, to anyone. He's looking for people or organizations that have a Linux box with a static IP address to act as data collection agents. You really can be anywhere around the worl, and the processes run in the background, quietly testing the locations that GrabPERF tracks in the background. It shouldn't be a significant resource hog.
I think that having resources like this (think of it as an Alexa for website performance, just more accurate) is a really important thing to con
Photowalking 8 (Half Moon Bay) pictures are up
I spent Sunday morning with Robert Scoble, Thomas Hawk, and about 20 other photographers down in Half Moon Bay. It was a great time! Robert rented a massive 600mm f4 lens, and let us all use it, while he was taking video the whole time. At first, that monster was a bit overwhelming, and I withdrew, but I later got some nice shots with it (my favorites are "Fishing under the trees" and "Cutting the Surf 2") but I also found some lovely shots
Search Headlines & Links: Mar. 28, 2007
Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news? Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web:
