From my perspective, sorting out the acquisitions of Yahoo and Google is pretty straight-forward. Yahoo (list of Yahoo acquisitions) has always been about building a directory. ‘Tags’ are just another way to create a directory. From that perspective, purchasing HotJobs (directory of jobs), Flickr (directory of photos), Upcoming (directory of events), del.icio.us (directory of web …
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Saturday, February 24, 2007 4:30:02 PM
I’m back at the Starbucks in Wausau, just uploaded the 96th First Crack Podcast and the first MNteractive Podcast Profile
First Crack 96. Jeff Williamson on St. Paul’s Flat Earth Brewing
As Jeff Williamson, co-owner of St. Paul’s Flat Earth Brewing Co. awaits kegs to distribute the first batch of Flat Earth Pale Ale, he and I talk about; Getting a microbrewery off the ground How a new child changed his the direction of Flat Earth Flat Earth’s place in Minnesota’s beer scene. Listen to Jeff …
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SXSW 2007 Torrent Out
It’s that time of year again – the time of year when SXSW releases their 3GB torrent files containing 739 mp3s this year’s Showcasing Bands. Yippee! And like past years, I’ll be keeping you up to date on my picks.
KRAFT Wants My Opinion on “Food”?
Listen to me read the actual email I received from a kraft.com domain. I question its authenticity, but then, its from the place that brought us cheese food. UPDATE: I just received confirmation that the message did come from a Kraft “Senior Associate Brand Manager”, and I’m not the only one in PodcastMN land to …
Faceless Borg
(Inspired by YouTube: Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition Tested – Perl Scripting)
Unfriend
Rabbit Beanie
What’s YouTube if Not Public Access?
This weekend, Dan Gillmor is doing a workshop on how to make public-access TV relevant. His thoughts echo those I wrote about in, “Add Cable Public Access to the Endangered Species List“. Namely, it’s an artifact of a time when publishing was hard and expensive for citizens to do. My recommendation for cable companies to …
QSPress – Quicksilver and WordPress Make Me Twitter
I’m with Aaron, I don’t quite get Twitter. If you want to know what’s on my mind…read this blog. What I do get about Twitter is really, really fast publishing. The faster, the better. So, I cooked up a little script (11 lines) to post directly to this blog from Quicksilver. If you’ve got a …
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