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Drew Meyers currently runs ESM Exec Designs, a design shop specializing in corporate and personal blog design. Travel addict managing Oh Hey World, a travel blog focused on generation X & Y, and real estate technology enthusiast. In his free time, Drew enjoys reading, traveling the world, spending time with passionate people, and is active member of the microfinance community.
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Monthly Archives: May 2007
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
Check out the videos of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates — I’m sure it’s interesting stuff (I haven’t watched them yet, but will this weekend).
Lunch 2.0 in Seattle Tomorrow
David Gibbons and myself will be attending Lunch 2.0 tomorrow at WetPaint’s office in Seattle. If you’re attending, make sure to come say “Hi!”
Big News Day: StumbleUpon, Last.fm, Mahalo, and Google
Damn, what a day in the tech world. Lots of big news, including two fairly large acquistions of web 2.0 companies. Last.fm (which is an awesome application by the way) was bought by CBS for $280 million. I agree with Fred that it could prove to be a real bargain a couple years from now as internet radio becomes more popular (right now, it’s just the geeks – but that will change). There are dozens of other posts on this subject at Techmeme if you want more insight. eBay announced the purchase of StumbleUpon (another cool site) for $75 million. I really think this is a great investment for eBay as they get into the … Continue reading
Anyone Know how to Maintain Working Permalinks When Migrating from Typepad to WordPress??
If so, please consider answering THIS question on Yahoo Answers.
How Facebook is Completely Changing the Internet
I’ve been a Facebook fan for a long time (about 6 3 years I think). In a day and age where everything is becoming “open,” their latest release at F8 is simply an unbelievablably smart business move (IMO) that will take advantage of their massive user base. The NYT wrote “facebook expands into myspace’s territory.” I agree completely and cannot wait until the MASSIVE shift of users from myspace to facebook starts to occur (which I really do think will happen – afterall, how many die-hard, passionate myspace users do you run across?). Web 2.0 is turning completely transparent and Facebook is on the cutting edge — truly on it’s way to changing the internet. … Continue reading
It Sure is a Great Time to be in the Internet Industry (especially if you’re a developer)
I thought this was an interesting article in the New York Times titled “In Fierce Competition, Google Finds Novel Ways to Feed Hiring Machine.” This quote by Alice Yu-shan Chang (successfully recruited by Google) was easy for me to relate to: Being in an environment where you are going to learn a lot is the most important thing to me As is the case with many young entrepreneurs interested in the tech industry, the most important thing to me is learning and getting the chance to work with great employees, which is exactly the type of environment my employer, Zillow.com, provides.
Interview with Feedburner CEO Dick Costolo
For those who find RSS and blogging interesting, there’s an interesting interview worth checking out with the CEO of Feedburner Dick Costolo on WallStrip that was published on Friday. H/T to Union Square Ventures. In the long-short section of the interview, Dick says “short” to Amazon — not sure if I agree. And yes, I agree with Marshall in that the Feedburner acquisition by Google was an extremely smart move.
