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youtube and google

2006.10.13 Fri 8:55 A GMT-07
I heard from a friend last night that youtube broke even in the last quarter and was profitable last month. I had always heard that they were shelling out millions for bandwith. Interesting, so they actually had a business plan and were successful
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Gems from Startupschool 2006

2006.04.29 Sat 10:51 P GMT-07
I was able to head up to my alma matter and attend most of Startup School today. Here's my "gems", I tried to note the themes that were common: Joe Kraus (Jotspot)Persistance Pays - (See Paul Graham below too) "No false positives" - Wi
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Python at Google (Greg Stein - SDForum)

2006.02.01 Wed 11:08 A GMT-07
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Python web framework shootout, take 3. Petitioning Guido (Google) to choose their framework

2006.01.27 Fri 11:26 A GMT-07
A year ago I heard Guido say that he wasn't much interested in web frameworks, but apparently "after years of resistance" he's had a change of heart.
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FOSS Day 2 (the kernel, turbogears, google and gentoo)

2005.11.30 Wed 9:36 A GMT-07
Today was the second day of FOSS. I'll jot down my observations from today.The first talk I attended was from LWN's Jonathon Corbet. He discussed recent happenings in the Linux kernel. He noted that the development cycle of the kern
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Google hates me....

2005.10.25 Tue 9:33 P GMT-07
I seem to have this love hate relationship with the company that seems to control the web. Ok this post will probably seem quite vain, so I apologize for that. But it illustrates that even though a companies' motto is "Do no evil", it doesn't alway
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Script to find rank in the internet

2005.09.30 Fri 1:09 A GMT-07
Because I'm fascinated by how your ranking in certain search engines can fluctuate so rapidly over even one day, I hacked out a script (easier than scanning through pages of results). Pass the script a query (in quotes) and the url (can just be the
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IBM opening the secret sauce for Web Fountain?

2005.08.08 Mon 11:46 P GMT-07
Up above Silicon Valley, IBM has a big research facility. One of the big projects they are working on over there at Almaden is called Web Fountain. Think of it as Google on steroids. A search engine that can determine sentiment (can determine what
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Alex Martelli's Python Black Magic (July BayPiggies presentation)

2005.07.19 Tue 10:30 P GMT-07
Last week Alex presented to a pretty big crowd for a baypiggies meeting at google. His talk was originally entitled "Black Magic", but to avoid the bad connotation, he renamed it "Descriptors, Decorators and Metaclasses". A pdf version of his slide
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