Smart piece by Bambi Francisco explaining that Google Search and Ebay stores can be regarded as competing paradigms for serving surfers buying needs–and therefore potential rivals. More here.
News flash: Overture sells AltaVista Search, a mostly enterprise little product, to FAST, Press release here.
I started reading digitally more than 10 years ago, with Amy Gahran’s encouragement (she gave me her generation 3 Kindle). Reading really took off in 2017 when I discovered Overdrive, the library app (thanks, Lisa Williams). This past year, I borrowed more than 150 books via Overdrive and the Berkeley Public Library, with maybe… Continue Reading
Resolutions or goals? Here’s my personal list for 2018: Do it now: Admit the present is all that matters, with everything — intentions need to be made real in real time, not someday. 2. See friends in real life: Make time for friends in real life every week; social media and virtual isn’t enough. 3. Be stronger… Continue Reading
Watching Breakfast at Tiffany’s the other night, I smirked at the constant smoking by every character: waking up, at breakfast, after a meal, walking down the street, in bed, before going to sleep. If there wasn’t a cigarette in hand, nothing was happening. And the same thing is true in so many movies of the era,… Continue Reading
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