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Metrics – Weighting the Metrics
Metrics weeks continues with a review of how to weight metrics. So far, I’ve looked into who, in a company could benefit from metrics. I then delved into two different types of metrics: hard metrics, which can easily be measured, and soft metrics, which cannot. Today, I’m going to try to figure out how this [...]
Tags: API, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Search, eBay
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At WeMedia 2005
I’m attending the WeMedia conference today and will be live-blogging in this entry. Watch the site for constant updates as I will keep adding to this entry. It seems there are two clear camps here: the new media adopters and the traditional crowd. They can easily be identified based on whether they have laptops in front [...]
Tags: Google, Media, Microsoft, United States, Yahoo, eBay, media types
In Business, Media, Technology
2004 predictions: Recap
With the end of the year upon us, it’s time to do a quick sanity check on how well I did on last year’s predictions. Apple Scored well on the introduction of the Apple mini, which represents Apple’s entry into the lower end market. However, no video iPod this year, only a photo one, leaving Apple far, [...]
Tags: AOL, AT&T, Google, Internet, Music, Social Networks, VOIP, Wi-Fi, eBay
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2004 Predictions
With a new year starting, it’s time to jump back in the water and make a few predictions as to what’s coming next. I suspect 2004 is going to be a big year in technology and here are some predictions for the coming year. Apple Apple will come out with a new lower-powered, lower-cost version of the [...]
Tags: AOL, Google, IBM, Linux, Microsoft, Music, Telephony, VOIP, Video, Wi-Fi, Yahoo, eBay
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The Coming Plague
Something has been bugging me about the whole SoBig.F incident and I believe that it has to do more with the self-congratulatory messages from people who eradicated most of it than from the virus itself. In a way, the virus is a clear representation of where things are headed. Back in 2001, I heard about [...]
In Technology
The Elegant Hack
Paul Graham published a great essay on the parallels between hackers and painters. I find it funny that this would come up on the net this week as I was pondering some of the same things in the past few weeks, since I visited the amazing Da Vinci show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art [...]
Tags: eBay
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