July 2007
11 posts
Dare’s on Fire
Commenting on another post about A-List bloggers on his own blog, Dare Obasanjo writes a scintillating post about A-List bloggers. He writes After seeing the various posts about Facebook over the weekend, I think it is now safe to say that a lot of the popular technology bloggers aren’t just often behind the current trends on the Web, but actually don’t even know how to use the software when they...
Microsoft’s Live Search Images is much better
Whenever I need to find a specific image or logo to insert into some slide deck or report, I tend to just hit Google Images. For the last few months however, Microsoft’s Live Search Images has actually been much better. And I’m not just talking about portrait search.
In this screenshot, you can see the basic interface. A scratchpad (a feature that is in other Live products and works with IP and...
AAPL en fuego
Yes the title is from the popular Ars Technica thread. Regardless… It closed at $137.12 on lower-than-usual volume as everyone was waiting for the earnings announcement at 2pm PDT. You can see the price dip pre-call (maybe hedging bets, running with realized returns) and then soar as CFO Peter Oppenheimer announces $0.92 (Street expectation was $0.72, Apple guidance was $0.66). How high will this...
Another one bites the dust…
(via madh)
MVNO’s customers have no money, MVNO go bankrupt
It’s widely known that MTV and Universal Music-backed MVNO Amp’d went bankrupt. What I find interesting is how 80,000 of its 165,000 customers weren’t paying. That 46%! (Plus Amp’d only has $9000 in the bank! Not good when you owe Verizon $370k per day!) Shows the challenges of targeting a younger, mobile service-hungry demographic. Also shows the challenge of charging high prices for anything...
