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Entries from October 2007

Start-ups You Should Be Aware Of

October 31st, 2007 · 2 Comments

(because investors, employees, clients and your wife will ask you about)

Dapper - any web page becomes a LEGO block, which you can arrange and manipulate in any way you like.
Jaxtr - social communications company that brings voice to social networks and blogs. Free phone calls anywhere! My jaxtr link: http://www.jaxtr.com/nabergoj
Twine - better leverage and contribute […]

Tags: Enter-per-neo · Web & Tech

Relevance, Influence and Readers Efficiency

October 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment

A group of researchers at CMU have been considering a notion of blog importance based on how likely a set of blogs is to ensure that you will be informed of topics bursting in the blogosphere. By analogy, they consider a graph of water pipelines. (via Microsoft’s Live Labs scientist).
Read on: The Most Important Blogs […]

Tags: Web & Tech

Inexplicable Moments In Science

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Discover yourself why absinthe makes the harp grows blonder..
(hint 1: contains psycho active substance thujone, some scientists claim it affects the neuro receptors in the brain in a similar way to THC in cannabis)
Buy absinthe only at my friend’s premium absinthe distillery Absinthe Supreme).
(hint2: absinthe is a powerful investor-relaxant and persuasion drug. verified.)

Taken at Absinthe, […]

Tags: Places

Valuation For Dummies

October 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Now that Facebook raised $240M from Microsoft at a $15B valuation, with revenues of $100M-$150M and $30M in profits, people wonder where is the math. The valuation puts Facebook as the 5# most valuable U.S. internet firm (blogs report about an additional $500M invested in Facebook by two hedge funds).
The Facebook valuation enigma was greatly […]

Tags: Enter-per-neo · Web & Tech

Delicious Apple(s) In The Jungle

October 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment

This makes me really want to rush out and get a new Mac - for the first time! It’s the new Apple Mac OS X Leopard video demo (arriving October, 26). This is how computers should look like in the future. Impressive features are:
- time machine
- data detector
- the new iChat
- spaces
and usability overall (you […]

Tags: Inspired by · Web & Tech

The Power Of Pi

October 24th, 2007 · No Comments

Could be that Google’s shares soar due to the power of pi: the number of additional shares Google sold in 2005 is 14,159,265. If you remove the commas and place a three and a decimal point in front of the number, you get 3.14159265, which is pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle […]

Tags: Economy

When It All Started

October 24th, 2007 · No Comments

40 years ago, Douglas Engelbart, showed to the world the first computer mouse, and introduced for the first time the paper paradigm, video conferencing, teleconferencing, email and hypertext. His presentation, referred to as The Mother Of All Demos, showed NLS (oNLine Systems), the technology he developed at Stanford Research Institute’s Augmentation Research Center, which greatly […]

Tags: Web & Tech

Google valued at +200 billion USD

October 23rd, 2007 · 3 Comments

Google market cap tops 200 billion USD. Larger than Toyota. And bigger than Wal-Mart. And greater than Time Warner, Disney, and News Corp combined. And almost 4x WPP, Omnicom, Publicis, Interpublic, Aegis, Havas and MDC combined. Or 10x 5x the GDP of Slovenia.
The relative valuations of the new and traditional media companies are more than […]

Tags: Enter-per-neo · Web & Tech