September 2005

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BW Story about Marissa Mayer

Business Week has a story about Marissa Mayer who is charged with managing “Google’s Idea Factory”. The story is nice and give a bit of inside how new ideas are handled within Google through her.

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Calming down a person (or a horse)

I was amazed when I read this article over at Creating Passionate Users. Kathy Sierra does a nice analogy between how the horses are being calmed down and how we can get a person calm down. Interestingly, it makes good sense…

Bill Gates’ Nine Lives

Fred Wilson wonders if Bill Gates is a cat with nine lives and comes up with a great post. It is definetely a good read since Microsoft produced lots of buzz this past week because of the PDC.

With the importance Microsoft…

GMail Says “Be Yourself”

One new feature of GMail that I noticed last week is the ability to customize the “From:” address on the outgoing messages to display another email address. This is very handy for me because couple of months ago I have started…

Google Does Blog Search

Google finally announced the long awaited blog search tool. The new search engine offers blog and feed search capabilities and can be reached at google.com/blogsearch or search.blogger.com.

Here are some links on that new announcement:

Search Engine Watch: Google Launches Industrial Strength Blog Search
Anil…

eBay Buys Skype

The news is out today that eBay acquired Skype. The price is said to be “approximately $2.6 billion in up-front cash and eBay stock, plus potential performance-based consideration.”

There was much speculation on who would buy Skype after it was revealed that Skype…