THE DREAM IN ACTION

  Today the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) released that they would be creating an “internet index” that will follow many of the large internet companies (i.e. Google, Yahoo) and other publicly traded internet companies.  As Duncan Riley on TechCrunch speculated, it is likely that any good or bad news around Google would [...]

Of all the folks out in Silicon Valley rolling in the cash the ‘Googlers’ are now among the wealthiest.  Michael Arrington wrote on TechCrunch recently about how there are 1,000 Google employees who’s stock grants and options are worth, now with the recent increase in price, over $5 million. See said increase:   There are [...]

  VS.    The Ultimate Showdown Facebook is being bullied!  MySpace exec’s just released that they would agree to participate with Google’s Open Social platform (Bebo did also). Facebook will practically be the only social networking site on the web to not join the Google’s more “open” platform. Can Facebook and Zuckerberg counter to this?  Could [...]

Given the recent kudos I gave to Google, you could probably have guessed that I am in full support of the recent discussion between Verizon and Google regarding a mobile phone partnership.  Verizon is in deliberations about carrying a mobile phone that would be customized to Google’s soon to come mobile OS.  Verizon, the second [...]

Gmail, hands down the best internet based email provider, is stepping it up yet another notch.  They will be adding an easy to use contact manager, more keyboard short-cuts and a quicker way to search for and pull messages which will speed up the performance of the tool. Phenomenal. On the Gmail blog they state: “Even on [...]

With Google’s (GOOG) stock price closing today (10/10/2007) at a whopping $630.29, there are many Googlers who are becoming ex-Googlers and cashing in. (I know I would!)  Most recently, as reported on Om Malik’s blog GigaOM , Benjamin Ling became an ex-Googler.  Benjamin Ling was referred to as “the golden boy” by the Google founders [...]

This topic is a bit disterbing, you’ve been warned.   Why are mom’s on facebook? Mine is and its a bit wierd.  I understand that facebook is one of the most popular websites on the internet and is used as a very effective tool to stay in touch with friends and family, however I definitely [...]

Not even Google can recruit ALL the best young talent. In the Silicon Valley there are thousands of computer science majors and motivated individuals who would give their left nut to be hired by companies like Google, Facebook and Firefox. But, these jobs are very rare and incredibly difficult to obtain. However, facebook.com has created [...]