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What Eric Schmidt Found at Google

What Eric Schmidt Found at Google 04/26/2004 04:58 AM
Business Week Apr 26 2004 9:18AM GMT

The sayings of Chairman Schmidt:

Eric Schmidt of Google on Orkut and
other topics at Berkeley

The sayings of Chairman Schmidt:

Eric Schmidt of Google on Orkut and
other topics at Berkeley 03/06/2004 01:57 AM
The highlight of today's UC Berkeley CSEE department Research Symposium, at least in entertainment value, was the keynote speech by Eric Schmidt of Google (Berkeley CS M.S. and Ph.D.). He gave a very intelligent and witty speech, much too long to reproduce here. He talked about the changes over the last 30 years in technology and in the information industry, about Google business, logistical and technology challenges, and he told a lot of funny stories. A few tidbits: My policy for Google execs: for sixty minutes a day, they are required to be offline. From every piece of data on the growth of the Internet that Google sees, we don't see anything slowing down. The information industry is booming. Google cares a lot about power and temperature. Google servers use more than 10 megawatts of power. Fires are a big problem. Sometimes I think that Google's fundamental mission is to move air from one server rack to another server rack. Running a data center is a lousy business. Every data center we have been in has gone bankrupt. Google's architectural problems are power, especially provisioning it, aggregating the data, since we have thousands of copies of the Internet, and scale problems. The speed of light is a problem. If you can solve a real end user problem, you are guaranteed to be a big success. There is a very interesting collision between the law and the Internet coming [he gave an example of kids buying prescription drugs over the net]. I know that the blogosphere is currently obsessed with Orkut, so I thought it would be worth reproducing to the best of my ability his response to a question about Orkut and its Terms of Service. Orkut is an experiment by a 28 year old man named Orkut looking for a social life. My engineers are obsessed with it -- I don't see what it has to offer a married man in his 40's like me. [I feel the same way]. It is unlikely that we will use that information. We need some information to connect people. Someone asked specifically about the provision in the Orkut TOS, By submitting, posting or displaying any Materials on or through the orkut.com service, you automatically grant to us a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to copy, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform and display such Materials. Schmidt said: The...

About Google's Eric Schmidt

About Google's Eric Schmidt 11/05/2003 07:07 PM
AlwaysOn: But you bought blogging software and a blogging search engine with a million registered users, as far as I understand. ...

As Google Stumbles Toward IPO, Analysts
Wonder About Schmidt

As Google Stumbles Toward IPO, Analysts
Wonder About Schmidt 08/18/2004 04:39 AM
Investors Business Daily Aug 18 2004 9:32AM GMT

Businesses For Sale in Northern and
Southern California Reached a Record
Number 368 Business & Franchise Sales
This Past Week from Business Brokers,
Small Business Owners, & Real Estate
Agents

Businesses For Sale in Northern and
Southern California Reached a Record
Number 368 Business & Franchise Sales
This Past Week from Business Brokers,
Small Business Owners, & Real Estate
Agents 05/31/2004 01:52 PM
Businesses for sale in Northern and Southern California reached a record number 368 business & franchise sales this past week from business brokers, small business owners, & real estate agents for the week of May 17, 2004 thru May 23, 2004. [PRWEB May 27, 2004]

DoubleClick names Eric Kirby SVP and
head of e-mail business

DoubleClick names Eric Kirby SVP and
head of e-mail business 04/17/2005 02:37 PM
InternetRetailer.com Apr 17 2005 4:55PM GMT

Eric Pfeiffer on George Felos on
National Review Online

Eric Pfeiffer on George Felos on
National Review Online 04/01/2005 03:51 AM
the New Age Hollywood sleaziness .. "very strange lawyer." .. stark, raving bonkers .. Pfeiffer: Odd Felos

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Northern And Southern California
Businesses For Sale Dipped This Past
Week To 324 Business & Franchise Sales.
These Small Businesses Were Sold By
Business Brokers, Small Business Owners,
& Real Estate Agents Throughout
California.

Northern And Southern California
Businesses For Sale Dipped This Past
Week To 324 Business & Franchise Sales.
These Small Businesses Were Sold By
Business Brokers, Small Business Owners,
& Real Estate Agents Throughout
California. 06/23/2004 03:08 AM
Northern And Southern California Businesses For Sale Dipped This Past Week To 324 Business & Franchise Sales. These Small Businesses Were Sold By Business Brokers, Small Business Owners, & Real Estate Agents Throughout California. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004]

Girl, 5, found over a week after crash

Girl, 5, found over a week after crash 04/14/2004 10:23 AM

Six More IE Security Holes Found This
Week

Six More IE Security Holes Found This
Week 08/23/2002 02:08 PM
MS Issues patch to fix a fresh six pack of holes in IE.

Girl, 5, Found Over a Week After Crash
(AP)

Girl, 5, Found Over a Week After Crash
(AP) 04/14/2004 07:45 AM
AP - A 5-year-old girl found in a ravine survived on dry noodles and Gatorade while remaining near her dead mother following a car crash more than a week ago, relatives and authorities said.

Online Business Networks - Building
Quality Business Relationships on the
Internet

Online Business Networks - Building
Quality Business Relationships on the
Internet 12/28/2004 06:58 AM

Online Business Networks

Online Business Networks - Building Quality Business Relationships on the Internet
http://www.onlinebusines snetworks.com/

Reach More of the Right People Faster with Less Effort. Business is under pressure now more than ever to do more with less — bigger, better, cheaper, faster. But at what cost? At the cost of human relationships? It doesn't have to be. The internet offers powerful tools to help you find the right people, connect with them, build trust and rapport, and collaborate with them quickly and cost-effectively. This is a good guide with some fine resources. This has been added to my white paper Online Social Networking.

Live coverage from Times Online business
reporters No 1 FOR BUSINESS

Live coverage from Times Online business
reporters No 1 FOR BUSINESS 07/12/2004 05:40 AM
Business.timesonline.co.uk - Mon Jul 12, 09:22 am GMT

Google Hacks Week 4 -- Additional Google
News Search Options

Google Hacks Week 4 -- Additional Google
News Search Options 03/13/2003 10:26 AM

Business Week Quiz

Business Week Quiz 05/12/2004 01:21 AM
ic Wales,UK-2 hours ago ... morning? 4. Name the Welsh director of search engine Google, who is a partner in Silicon valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. 5 ...

Business-to-business online ad network
launches

Business-to-business online ad network
launches 09/13/2004 07:15 AM
ThomasB2B.com LLC will officially launch on Monday a new online advertising network which is modeled after general-purpose ones from the likes of Yahoo Inc.'s Overture and Google Inc. but which differs in two key aspects: first, it is focused exclusively on the business-to-business market; and second, it matches ads with search queries and content through predefined categories, not keywords.

Business Week Pundits on Parade

Business Week Pundits on Parade 06/05/2005 11:25 PM
Henry slams the Business Week cover story on blogging.  Bravo.

Frankly, the entire article smells.  Heather Green and her cohort are using the article to launch a new blog that talks about business blogging.  Can you say:  business book?  Scoble will soon have some competition.

Also, the article is full of over the top analysis.  This is classic Forrester, but the analysts were left out of the picture.  The reporters are now the subject matter experts/pundits/analysts.  "We've done our research on blogs, made our dire pronouncements." Very funny.

Finally, the article (of course) claims that businesses will find ways to dominate the world of blogs.  It has to.  You can't sell business consulting/books/articles/commercial blogs/speaking engagements unless you can tell companies that they can eventually dominate the blogging world (or that their company is at risk).  If they told the truth, interest would tank.

Outsourcing to India in Business Week
and at MIT...

Outsourcing to India in Business Week
and at MIT... 01/07/2004 04:17 PM

Not all of our students will see this cover story in Business Week on the migration of high-paying jobs to India.  But most attended a lecture in 6.171 by the folks who run MIT's latest big IT effort:  OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu), which distributes syllabi, problem sets, and other materials from MIT classes (at least one semester after the class is actually given).  During the lecture the students learned that, although ocw.mit.edu is a purely static .html site, it is produced with a database-backed content management system.  In fact, of the $11 million donated by foundations to support the service, about $2 million was spent on technology and the salaries of folks at MIT who oversee the technology.

The more sophisticated portion of ocw.mit.edu is a 100 percent Microsoft show.  A student asks the speakers why they chose Microsoft Content Management Server, expecting to hear a story about careful in-house technical evaluation done by people sort of like them.  The answer:  "We read a Gartner Group report that said the Microsoft system was the simplest to use among the commercial vendors and that open-source toolkits weren't worth considering."

Students began to wake up.

A PowerPoint slide contained the magic word "Delhi".  It turns out that most of the content editing and all of the programming work for OpenCourseWare was done in India, either by Sapient, MIT's main contractor for the project, or by a handful of Microsoft India employees who helped set up the Content Management Server.

Thus did students who are within months of graduating with their $160,000 computer science degrees learn how modern information systems are actually built, even by institutions that earn much of their revenue from educating American software developers.

Boring Business Week Articles

Boring Business Week Articles 02/18/2004 02:50 PM
Business Week ran a series of articles about Wi-Fi: Some are pretty basic and don't really cover anything new. But the first article focuses on the need for roaming deals and a simplification of logging onto any network. That seems to be the theme for the year....

Business Week Slams the RIAA!

Business Week Slams the RIAA! 01/27/2004 03:32 AM
Business Week gets it and the RIAA doesn't. What is amazing is that Business Week's opinion fell without directly saying...

"Outsourcing to India in Business Week
and at MIT..."

"Outsourcing to India in Business Week
and at MIT..." 12/02/2003 03:01 AM

Business Week talk on the Two Palms

Business Week talk on the Two Palms 06/25/2004 03:54 PM
Cliff Edwards, of Business Week's Streetsmart writes, "Both before and after Palm split into tw...

Business Week Trashes RIAA's Strategy

Business Week Trashes RIAA's Strategy 01/26/2004 09:53 PM
Even Business Week, which you might expect to side with the big recording industry over the consumer, has an article suggesting that the latest lawsuits from the industry are their worst move yet, and things are only going to get worse for them. The article points out, as many people have been saying, that each move by the recording industry only drives those sharing music files further underground while making them even less receptive to any eventual embrace from the industry. While we've discussed this plenty of times, what's interesting here is the fact that a magazine like Business Week is coming to the same conclusion. For a while, the industry insisted that it was only a bunch of kids "stealing" music who were against the actions they were taking. However, when big name business publications start trashing the strategy as well, you'd think the industry might start to pay attention.

Business Week: Polishing Apple's Future

Business Week: Polishing Apple's Future 04/23/2004 12:03 PM

Online Billing - Small Business
Accepting Online Payment with 2ndSite’s
Free Service

Online Billing - Small Business
Accepting Online Payment with 2ndSite’s
Free Service 09/02/2004 02:06 AM
Before you send your next invoice, make sure you are not wasting time or money. Small businesses have begun to recognize the cost savings afforded by online billing thanks to 2ndSite Inc.’s free online billing service. [PRWEB Sep 2, 2004]

Gov't approves business activities in
Kaesung in this week

Gov't approves business activities in
Kaesung in this week 09/08/2004 01:14 AM
Maekyung Internet Sep 8 2004 5:55AM GMT

Linux knocks Bush off cover of Business
Week

Linux knocks Bush off cover of Business
Week 02/01/2005 10:09 PM
While George W. Bush was off dreaming about a world that doesn't exist, those no-nonsense savvy capitalists at Business Week were cooking up a cover story on Linux. Proving that business is still more interested in what works than in...

E-training Is Made Easy When Experts
Converge For Online Webinar Focusing On
Inspiring And Educating New Online
Business Owners

E-training Is Made Easy When Experts
Converge For Online Webinar Focusing On
Inspiring And Educating New Online
Business Owners 03/14/2005 04:40 PM
Our Web Developers have assembled a powerful team of experts in various fields including Tax Specialists, Marketing Experts, IT Professionals, Coaching Gurus, Business Accountants, established Network Marketers, as well as a wide variety of other experts. The monthly webinars are a valuable resource for both established businesses and for those considering a business venture. [PRWEB Mar 14, 2005]

WebsiteOnThePhone.com (a business
division of Sri IIST Inc, TX) announces
the launch of Rental Management System
(RMS) - an easy-to-use off-the-shelf
software for starting an own online
video rental business.

WebsiteOnThePhone.com (a business
division of Sri IIST Inc, TX) announces
the launch of Rental Management System
(RMS) - an easy-to-use off-the-shelf
software for starting an own online
video rental business. 09/19/2004 02:24 AM
The RMS web application software allows complete automation of account creation, inventory management, tracking of rentals, customer management, rewards programs and more for the online video rental business. The online video rental store will have the capability to process payments using all major credit card processing vendors such as Card Services International, WorldPay, Authorize.net, Verisign, 2Checkout.com, Paypal, etc. [PRWEB Sep 19, 2004]

The World Famous Chi-Lites Joined
DigiPie this Week in Music Business

The World Famous Chi-Lites Joined
DigiPie this Week in Music Business 08/10/2004 03:43 AM
DigiPie is the new kid on the block when it comes to legal downloading. While iTunes has established validity in downloading, DigiPie takes it much further by also allowing Artists to take control of the exploitation of their creations and shares the "pie" with the public. DigiPie is currently building it's artist base. [PRWEB Aug 10, 2004]

Industry Bodies Coordinate E-Business
Standards Efforts (Internet Week)

Industry Bodies Coordinate E-Business
Standards Efforts (Internet Week) 06/17/2002 11:58 AM

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Google Announces Google Local Business
Center

Google Announces Google Local Business
Center 03/17/2005 03:38 AM
Google has announced the Google Local Business Center, which is a tool for businesses to add or update their listings in Google Local. I was wondering when/if they'd offer something...

Right on to Chris Schmidt!

Right on to Chris Schmidt! 05/25/2004 02:50 PM

Chris Schmidt is the young man who brought FOAF to LiveJournal.  He's kicking ass right now - as we speak to bring FOAF to Drupal.

Right on - Chris!  Keep going!

FOAF Tools - Ah, the power of tools. Many people lately have been ragging on FOAF as a kind of tired standard, because there's no killer application for it. To a certain extent, I agree - there's no highly visible use of FOAF in the world right now for the general public. There are a lot of sites out there that offer some FOAF support, but very few of them actually do well at creating something that's useful to the general public. For a format which is so good at storing personal information about people, it seems that a large resource like this really could be used in a lot of ways. I've been working lately on a couple of different ways to make FOAF more usable to the world at large.

In the past, on the internet there were many annoying things. Pop up windows and ads were among them. However, recently I've resolved these issues in my own setup so I only have to deal with them when I have to be away from home. As a result, I've had time to find other annoying things on the internet - like the annoyance of filling out the same profile information on every website on the planet. I have accounts on so many sites that I can't even count anymore, and every time it's the same information: Name, email address, AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, Jabber, Address, Dog's name as a child. All these fields need to get filled out every time I go create an account at a new site. Now, this doesn't seem like the most effective use of the web. This information is out there! I store it in a machine readable format - yet machines aren't reading it. What's the point of keeping and maintaining an up-to-date FOAF file, if no one but me gets to look at it? This kind of thinking is what led a bunch of social software developers - people who run sites like Tribe, Ecadamy, PeopleAggregator - together. These people saw FOAF as a way to change this. By taking advantage of the formats already available, these sites can build on a strong, open source base of FOAF, and create distributed profiles from it. No longer do I have to type in all my messaging names at every site I sign up on. Simply drop in a FOAF URL, and let the backend take care of the rest. Eventually, you may not even need to do that - simply sign in as crschmidt@livejournal.com, and let authentication between the servers do the rest. It may sound like something that won't ever really happen, but it's happening now, even here on LiveJournal. LiveJournal has a need for this kind of thing as much as anyone else. Imagine no longer needing to fill out all your information every time you want to create an account at another site like DeadJournal or Blurty. Simply drop in your FOAF URL - already provided by LiveJournal - and your information will be filled out for you. I don't know about you, but that sounds cool to me.

Now take that idea a step farther. LiveJournal has friends lists - which FOAF provides. By using these lists, when you sign up at DeadJournal.com, DeadJournal may be able to go through and tell you who matches your data - offering you, from the get-go, a pre-built form of your Friends List at the new site. Never perfect - obviously, not everyone at the old site will neccesarily have an account on the new site, so you can't match everyone. However, such a tool may have the ability to email users and ask them to join their site, as do tools like Orkut now.

However neat distributed profiles and logins are, however, they aren't really a fun toy. Sure, it saves me some effort - and I like the idea, trust me - but it's not something that will really have a measurable affect on my daily life. FOAF is designed to describe relationships, so we should use it for that. One major thing that we use relationship for is to determine how well we know someone. A friend of my friend is most likely my friend. A friend of a friend of a friend may also be my friend. These may be people I communicate with on a regular basis. If I communicate with them online - via a mailing list, perhaps, or via email in general. One of the major problems with email today is spam - how to deal with it, and how to prioritize your email. If you think that you communicate mostly with people among people you know, then you may be able to use FOAF to help you sort your mail. Since FOAF typically includes a "sha1sum" of your email address - something that is unique to your email, but can't be used to find out what your email address is - you can build a database of who the people you know are. You can then use this information to do something to your emails to indicate who they are from. For example, I built a list of all my friends and their friends, along with an email address. Then, every time an email comes in, I check to see if it's from one of them. If it is, then I add something telling my email client to show me who it's from. If it's, for example, from "jessical", a level 1 friend, then I may want to highlight that, or give it priority. If it's from "allex", I may just want to flag it, but not treat it as important - allex is only a level 3 friend. In this way, I can prioritize my mail - people who I know are more important to deal with, while people who I don't know can typically wait. I have some simple example code of how this might work at http://foaf.crschmidt.net : the mbox-protector script builds a flat text database of users in you friends web, while the mailchecker checks an email coming in on STDIN for a match.

FOAF is a useful protocol for both profile data - useful for transferring between sites - and for relationships - building a web of who you know. This is just part of the reason why I took the time to add FOAF support to LiveJournal. As limited as it may be, it's still powerful enough to build these tools, and more powerful tools on the web to make your life easier are always a good thing. By crschmidt@livejournal.com. [Christopher Schmidt]

This week online

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This Week Online: Jan. 3

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County hot line found online

County hot line found online 07/05/2004 06:09 AM
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RSS Online Conference This Week

RSS Online Conference This Week 01/18/2004 01:38 PM
I'll be participating in a virtual event on RSS and its implications. It's called RS S Winterfest.

Jan. 3 issue: This Week Online

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