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Don’t Google…

Posted by pallid on October 27th, 2006

This is hilarious. Check out this gem from the blog:

we’d like to make clear that you should please only use “Google” when you’re actually referring to Google Inc. and our services.
I’ll not go into the marketing aspects of a genericized trademark since Google has put it so succinctly. But they must be joking… asking consumers […]

Milk them bloggers!

Posted by pallid on October 26th, 2006

Yesterday night, had drinks with Richard Edelman along with Mediaslut, Debbie from Marketing, Brown, Daryl, Bjorn, Justin, Popagandhi and a bunch of new folks I just met including Joe Augustine (the radio Joe), and Jennifer from Stomp.
Edelman was primarily there to listen, and soak, and shared a bit about how bloggers (as media) were gaining […]

YouTube - US$1.65 Billion Buyout By Google

Posted by pallid on October 10th, 2006

Wow… I’ve been following this for a little while, and they’ve finally gotten acquired by Google. For an obscene amount of money I might add. Here’s a few thoughts on this:

I think this will jolt quite a lot of people into starting up companies, just by the sheer amount money the acquisition involves. This could […]

Today hacked through RSS??!!

Posted by pallid on June 28th, 2006

Edit: Here’s the cool Today feed created by uzyn, who has penned his thoughts in the comments here. Thanks uzyn!
I’ve always liked the way Miyagi writes… entertaining, self effacing and most of all, he knows what he’s talking about. But today, he’s writing about some hacker dude ripping the content of Today and putting them […]

Mashing Maps on Your Site

Posted by pallid on June 19th, 2006

This is definitely good news: Yahoo! Maps API, now for commercial use too (by Jeremy Zawodny). On the other hand, Google provides far superior (IMHO) satellite images especially for this part of the world (i.e. Singapore), hasn’t made the distinction between commercial and non-commercial. To quote:

“The Service may be used only for services that are […]