Good article on fortune.com by Adam Lashinsky on where Google goes from here. Definitely worth a read.
It’s a fascinating question. Google was a company started by smart guys with a good idea. They stumbled into a helluva advertising model that printed money based on intent (goto.com actually did the work of invented that). They then […]

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Politics is often a very ugly thing.
I read Jeff Jarvis’ blog, Buzzmachine, because he’s a very smart and interesting guy. And I’ve enjoyed it over the past few years. Recently Jeff has been hitting Obama pretty strongly on his blog. And today, he comes out with his reasons for supporting Hillary. And he does this […]

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1. public transportation is fun. i take the company provided shuttle to work, occasionally get rides from co-workers and roommates, and then ride the bus/train. what i’ve always loved about public transit was how calming it is. just the fact that you don’t control when the train comes, you walking faster doesn’t help, driving faster, […]

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I read an article early this AM that Obama gave a stirring speech last night in Iowa. The article said that it was the closest he has come to recapturing the magic of the speech he delivered four years ago at the convention. Naturally, I wanted to watch. Sure enough, there on youtube, was […]

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Everyone wants to capture someone else’s interest. Marketers. Managers. Singles. Parents. Children. Pets. Everyone. I’ve always thought that getting people intensely interested was actually pretty simple. Capture their imagination. That’s it.
I took advantage of living in a major city yesterday. I saw a movie before it opened in wide-release. The Assassination of Jesse James […]

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I shudder to even write the words, but I have to wonder if another stock market tech bubble is forming. The last time we were here, at the end of the last/beginning of the current decade, everyone’s cash flowed into tech and telecom because it seemed like a sure thing. Exuberance all around. Today, the […]

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This post is from: Surya on Marketing (suryaonmarketing.com)
I’m making a prediction. By the end of 2007, there will be a slew of mainstream media stories on Facebook vs MySpace. I further believe that they will have the tone that the previous MySpace vs Friendster stories had: breathless accounts of how Friendster (and this time, MySpace) […]

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I’m going to cross-post this on suryasays.com and suryaonmarketing.com (SoM) What’s that? SoM is going to be a site where I post my random thoughts on marketing and sometimes business in general. I’m going to focus on two areas of marketing: general marketing fundamentals and technology marketing.
To read why I’m doing this site, you’ll […]

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I graduated a tad bit too early for social networking. Facebook wasn’t a twinkle in Zuck’s eye when I was in college, and not even Friendster was really running around. But being a tech-hanger-on I joined Friendster probably in 03/04. Then MySpace. And then, once I found my rutgers alumni email password, Facebook.
What’s been most […]

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The New York Times had this article over the weekend all about how online retailing is so over. Yesterday. Dead. Done. Well, maybe they didn’t proclaim it over, but they certainly were calling dibs on the rotting remains. Anyway, as soon as I saw this I was struck by what this meant. Well, let me […]

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Once upon a time Business 2.0 was my favorite magazine. I loved reading about the hottest companies and ideas. There were great one-page articles on what’s hot and cool -right now-. It was filled with news about young people doing amazing things. It brimmed full of interesting ideas and tips. And that was awesome perspective […]

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I’m driving in to work yesterday. It takes me 3 minutes to get to work, which as it turns out is my attention span anyway. But I digress. I’m driving to work yesterday and I’m listening to NPR. On NPR, they were discussing the state of the Iraqi government. So I’m hearing Iraqi’s talk about […]

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Got back from San Francisco last night. I had a ton of fun– great weather (if but a tad bit chilly), great food, and great people.
Special thanks to Corey, Jared, and Noah for showing me around a little and treating me to wonderful meals! The hospitality of the Bay residents might be the finest I’ve […]

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This blog was down for what appears to be almost a week. Part of this time I was away at my friend’s wedding in NJ. When I came back to OH, somewhere along the way I figured out it was down. I never realized how weird it felt for this blog to not be there. […]

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Ever have the moments where you see what you’re doing, and then you realize how different it is from “the way it used to be?” I get that feeling a lot. Most recently when I thought about bill paying.
One of my memories as a lad is of Mom paying the bills a few times a […]

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I don’t have a lot to say about the Virginia Tech tragedy. It’s unspeakably heartbreaking, sick, and sad. And everywhere you turn you’re reminded of this. Round the clock news coverage of today’s ceremony, interviews with loved ones, background on the killer, etc. I don’t want to pile on here. But I did want to […]

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I recently picked up the book a long way gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. You may have seen it if you go to Starbucks, it’s the book they’ve been promoting for the past month or so. The book, written by Ishmael Beah, is excellent. A pretty quick read at about 200 pages, it holds […]

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There are so many cool web businesses out there today, sometimes it’s just silly. Today, I’m talking about personal finance site, Seeking Alpha. It allows individual contributors with informed (or semi-informed) opinions of stocks, the markets, etc to post their positions on the site. They have editors who screen and pick out top-quality content. The […]

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(Updated with new information from AMD 4/9/07)
This post started as I thought about my pathetic AMD stock. I’ve come to learn that everyone in the world right now seems to hate AMD and the stock. Or at least this is true if you believe the stock market reflects public sentiment on the future of a […]

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Google today announced that they’ll be offering a suite of applications for office workers for only $50 per user a year. These applications, basically an alternative to Microsoft Office, today cost about $150 a user not counting the IT help and hardware to run them. This is a massive, but widely expected move from Google. […]

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The Internet will banish evil the world over. Slowly, but surely, it will march along and destroy the evil behaviors of corporations, organizations, governments and even individuals. The Internet saves all.
What am I babbling about? Connection & Emotion. At its most basic level, the Internet connects– connects you to news, […]

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I want to call this a sea change. But it’s not. It’s more like discovering the sea AND finding a boat at the same time. The, this, that I’m talking about is the Internet and all of the ridiculous ways that it has changed the world. The Internet has allowed the average […]

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