SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Shares of Google (GOOG) tumbled as much as 19% in Tuesday’s after-hours session following the Internet company’s lower-than-expected earnings report. The stock briefly changed hands at $352 vs. a regular-session closing price of $432.66. At last check, Google rebounded to $370.93.
I hope it wasn’t something I said…
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From UVLIG Announcement List:
Topic: [1] Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Date: Feb. 4, 2006 Time: 2:30
Room: [2] UVSC Room CS404Professor Heldenbrand is a member of the Computing and Networking
Sciences Department at UVSC and Coordinator of the Networking
Specialization. He will be presenting to the public on the topic of
networking and IPv6.He specializes in networking theory courses including Fundamentals of
Data Communications, Advanced Topics in Data Communications and TCP/IP
Internet Architecture. His professional interests include Internet
infrastructure and security, curriculum development, faculty recruiting
and student career advisement. That, and he’s a pretty cool guy!Everyone is welcome. Spread the word!
[1] More info on IPv6:
http://www.ipv6.org/[2] Map to parking and the CS building:
http://uvlug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=docs:programs:event_mapIt just so happens that as I’m writing this, Slashdot’s front page has
an interesting story about IPv6 and the Internet’s readiness. Reading a
few of the comments has really got me interested in the topic. Hope to
see you there! http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/01/30/1612241.shtml
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Be totally content, never take a risk. Every time you’re tempted to do something, always ask yourself, “What will everybody else think?” Be totally inflexible, stay on course, no matter what. Fear change, and do everything you can to avoid it. Don’t’ ever think for yourself; rely instead on others to make decisions for you. Do whatever it says to do in the directions; never try to think of a better way on your own. Set few goals, and keep the one you do set as fuzzy as possible, so you can keep changing them to match your progress. Let your attention drift, daydreaming and distraction will help make the time go faster. Don’t invest anything of yourself in the job; instead, put yourself first in everything you do. And finally, memorize the formula TGE, That’s Good Enough, to set a ceiling on the quality of your work or a limit on the time you spend at it. If you do all this conscientiously, you’ll be well on the way to losing.
–Taken from The Winner’s Circle, page 28.
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I’m attending the CTO Breakfast tomorrow–not for any reason other than I love technology and I want to hear what cool things are happening out there.
These are monthly events happening at the Canyon Park Technology Center. See more details here(directions, etc).
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Interview Insights: Shannon has junior level experience in web programming with HTML and JavaScript. She has a Computer Science Degree from Brigham Young University. She currently lives in Utah…
(see www.utahtechjobs.com/talent for more)
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For many technical people, the lure of “going independent” is hard to avoid.
Let’s face it, the apparent benefits are alluring: Set your own hours… work from home… earn what you’re worth… it sounds like a late-night infomercial.
But, more often than not, many developers or designers find their dream gig turning into a nightmare because running their new business keeps getting in the way of enjoying running your newbusiness.
This is what Michael Gerber calls the E-Myth, or the Entrepreneurial Myth–the belief that technicians or craftspeople may understand the process of Widget Making, but that doesn’t mean they understand the business of Widget Making.
If the operations aspect of setting up your own shop scares you to death (or, you’ve spent so much energymanaging your business that you’re stuck & can’t grow), we may be able to help.
Here’s how we can help you:
I can hear you saying, “Gee, Rob! This sounds great! How do I get started!??”
In the end, this is basically the same option that many of our clients use when they choose to “Payroll Someone” instead of hiring them outright. However, we are opening this option to our high-value consultants now, as well so you can, officially, go on with your bad-self and land gigs without fear of the business-administration nightmare that often follows.
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It’s getting a little testy out there–Google, who used to be the darling of the whole Internet–is getting a bad-rap faster than you can spell e-v-i-l.
But the worst part–and most-dastardly of all–is that there seems to be NO RESPONSE AT ALL from Google on the matter.
This morning, a Dow Jones analyst claims that “Google’s Action Makes A Mockery Of Its Values” with the following explaination:
It was less than two years ago that Google Inc. (GOOG) co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin thumbed their noses at the U.S. investment banking community with an auction-based IPO and their pledge not to cave in to the short-term demands of Wall Street.
Their mantra was “do no evil,” and the company’s statement still says Google’s goal is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
Even with one of the largest market valuations of any U.S. company, Google tries to set itself apart from its rivals – Yahoo Inc. (YHOO), Microsoft Corp.’s (MSFT) MSN and Time Warner Inc.’s (TWX) America Online – by underscoring its high-minded philosophical goal to “resist the temptation to make small sacrifices to increase shareholder value.”
It passionately claims that “Google has steadfastly refused to make any change that does not offer a benefit to the users who come to the site.”
Yet Google’s announcement Tuesday that it will comply with China’s repressive laws by doctoring its search results in that country makes a mockery of those values. [more]
With all of the flamethrowing going on, the Official Google Blog just sits there… doing… absolutely… nothing. They post things about their current releases (yay) and how to watch NBA games on Google Video (ooooh), and how Gmail FINALLY has delete buttons! (sheesh!), but there is nothing, nope, nadda, zilch about the things that matter to the users, the bloggers, the netizens…
P.S. Google, we’re the ones that click the oh-so-valuable clicks that bring in the oh-so-valuable Billions of Dollars in revenue you made last year. So, even though your advertisers pay the bills, they’d be nothing without the mouse-pointers that we, alone, have control of!
Is Google becoming evil? Here’s my take: I don’t care about the extra ads (hey, I have ads all over my blog). I don’t care about the click-fraud charges. I don’t really care about all the hype.
What I want to know is, “WHAT IS GOOGLE’S OFFICIAL RESPONSE??” And that is something I have yet to hear a dang thing about, other than “Google doesn’t care about you” evidenced by their blatant lack of customer-service and general decency when there’s a complaint.
It’s well known and established that the best way to ruin your company’s Public Relations is to hide and hope it all goes away, while the best way to Avoid PR Disasters is to tackle it head on.The Harvard Management Communication Letter has this to say:
A lousy earnings report, a product recall, a lawsuit, or an industrial accident can send even the most battle-hardened executive scurrying for the Maalox, especially when the media, shareholders, vendors, and board of directors all want to know what happenedand now.
A company’s public relations department is supposed to be in charge of damage control. However, events often take on a life of their own that no amount of spin can make go away. Companies that try to figure out how to respond to a crisis after it’s occurred will find themselves playing catch-up long after everybody stops caring. With some careful planning and preparation, it doesn’t have to be that way.
Bad news is part of the cost of doing business. But plenty of companies, through their actions or inaction, make the situation worse than it needs to be. [more...]
Please, Google. Share with us what you’re doing. Share with us your goals and your dreams, not just your holiday party pics. Share with us your vision as you conquer the web and grow up into this new, incredible decade of the Internet. I want to buy your stock, but give me reasons to trust you!
WEWANT YOU TO WIN, but we also want you to play fair on this playing field that, if you recall, you helped to level out for all of us.
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File this under the category of “very cool”
Blastyx just launched, aproduct ofProvo Labs that just cranked up the cool-meter big time when it comes to where I think the Internet is going. Similar to the incredible Channel9 phenomenon coming out of Microsoft, Blastyx looks at cool companies across the spectrum (not just inside Microsoft, like Channel9 does).
In a recent interview for the Salt Lake City Weekly, Phil Burns,adirector of the site, talks about the renegade approax Blastyx is using:
There are people who, like myself, believe that the world needs to see what they seenot just what the chief marketing director of some corporation thinks we should see, he said, adding that high-speed Internet connections help fuel the Webs increasingly participatory nature. Not even a year ago, it was difficult for most people to download your blog. It would take two days for it to pop up. Now, youre talking five minutes to download that thing.
The need for virtual self-expression also stems from a current shift in online culture known informally as Web 2.0. While no one seems able to agree on one definition for the phenomena, its generally described as the transition from a commerce-based Internet to a socially-oriented Internet, meaning people directly contribute, rather than simply consume, ideas and opinions through blogs and other user-generated content.
Cool! How do I get on there?
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Google has always been a little mysterious about their adsense program… not being clear about credits from clicks, etc. Now, it seems like they’ve played a little bait-and-switch on their user base by changing the rules on their adsense referral program payout structure–adding a 90-day limit for a qualifying referral to earn the required $100.00, a feat fewSEO and adsensenewbies would achieve.
Jensense gives us the rundown:
A thread over at DigitalPoint points out that Google AdSense has quietly added a new term to all AdSense referrals generated by a publisher. They have now instituted a 90-day time limit on that referral, meaning a referred publisher must earn the $100 within the first 90 days, before the referring publisher is eligible to earn that $100 for a completed AdSense referral.
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It’s Heating Up Around Here
January 27th, 2006Some interesting notes about the economy.
While it is noted that the Commerce Department says the economy slowed from 4.1% to 1.1% in the 4th quarter of 2006, I’m of the opinion that its a shift in when dollars are being allocated, as opposed to an overall slowdown of theeconomy.
The same analyst posted another report two hours later explaining that “sales of new U.S. homes increased a surprising 2.9% in December”, with “new home sales [rising] 6.6% to a record 1.282 million” for all of2005. Interestingly, “The median price [of a new home] for all of 2005 rose 7.4% to $237,300.”
A lot of my clients began searches for new employees last month, knowing they would fill them this month, with new budgets and a fresher outlook. Sales are up across the board for my clients, it appears and, while nobody’s heads are swimming yet, and everybody’s making carefully executed moves and watching their dimes, the clear indicators, to me are that it’s heating up around here:
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