23 May 2008
Looking to get started with a blog? More importantly, do you hope to monetize that blog? There are a lot of articles and books on blogging these days, many with limited or inaccurate information, but How To Make Money With Your Blog is one of the most complete and thorough …
15 Feb 2008
13 Feb 2008
By Chris DiBona, Open Source TeamWhen we first launched code.google.com (webarchive), it was largely a site for documenting our open source activities and had some details about Google’s supported APIs and file formats. In the ensuing 3 years, code has grown to encompass protocol documentation, project hosting and even a mobile operating system. Similarly, the activities of the Open Source Team have grown from simple license compliance to the aforementioned hosting, releasing massive amounts of code and introducing student programs like the Summer of Code and its high school cousin, the Highly Open Participation Contest. Since we’ve grown so much, we felt it was well past time to spin off a blog that specifically covers the open source activities of the company. So that’s just what we’ve done. Come check it out, and if you like, subscribe!
Tags: google, blog, open source
07 Feb 2008
05 Feb 2008
The Economist has a good piece on Evan Williams, the Blogger and Twitter founder whom the paper says “epitomises Silicon Valley’s right brain.” Williams makes a number of interesting observations, including that genuinely good ideas are stumbled upon rather than sought out.
The story also mentions that Williams hated his time working at Google, which bought Blogger in 2003. And it offers some reasons that might contain the seeds of some problems for the search giant over the long haul: “Google trumpets its innovative nature, but its genius is for attacking known problems (web search, e-mail, calendars, etc) with brute force — weapons of mass computing and mathematical algorithms. Mr Williams’s passion is solving new problems. Google values official brains — the credentialled, academic sort — whereas Mr Williams dropped out of university in Nebraska because he found the concept somewhat silly. He left Google after less than a year.”
Tags: Business
30 Jan 2008
Left brain dominant individuals are more orderly, literal, articulate, and to the point. They are good at understanding directions and anything that is explicit and logical. They can have trouble comprehending emotions and abstract concepts, they can feel lost when things are not clear, doubting anything that is not stated and proven.Right brain dominant individuals are more visual and intuitive. They are better at summarizing multiple points, picking up on what’s not said, visualizing things, and making things up. They can lack attention to detail, directness, organization, and the ability to explain their ideas verbally, leaving them unable to communicate effectively.
Overall you appear to be Right Brain Dominant
Tags: Personal
30 Jan 2008
30 Jan 2008
“You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tags: Business, Leadership, Quotes
30 Jan 2008
Manju Puri and David Robinson, writing in the Journal of Financial Economics, suggest looking for half-full glasses:
“The fact that optimists work more, save more, are less pre-disposed toward retirement, are more likely to remarry and to buy individual stocks suggests that optimism may well be a critical component of economic decision making.” The bright side can be too bright: “Optimism in moderation is associated with more prudent decisions … while the opposite is true for extreme optimism.”
Tags: Business
30 Jan 2008
Kurt Matzler writes in the MIT Sloan Management Review,
“successful senior executives appear to possess the ability to be lucky.” Wait, isn’t luck just luck? “Luck,” to Matzler, actually means the ability “to exploit chance situations… They detect weak signals that others don’t see and recognize patterns before others can.”
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