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Plaxo’s Top Support Article: Delete My Account

March 14, 2009

It appears that Plaxo, the online service once notorious for spam, still irks quite a few users - so much that their top support article is "How do I delete my Plaxo account?"
It seems odd that a company would display their customers’ dissatisfaction so prominently. I’m not sure whether this is by neglect or design, [...]

Internet | 1 Comments

NASDAQ-100 Revenue per Employee

February 7, 2009

I was discussing Revenue per Employee with some colleagues this week and noticed a lack of published ratios on the web. So I wrote a simple script to screen scrape revenue per employee data for the NASDAQ-100 from Google Finance. Note: I usually prefer Yahoo Finance because it is much more thorough, but I chose [...]

Internet, Investment | 13 Comments

OpenTable: A Killer Platform You’ve Never Heard Of

January 31, 2009

So far, most news I’ve seen on OpenTable’s IPO fails to analyze the company, instead myopically focusing on the boldness of going public in this market.
But this is a fair point. It’s very peculiar that a company needing only $40 million would file for IPO during a credit crunch. Further, OpenTable is backed by three [...]

Internet, Investment | 2 Comments

HTML on Facebook Not Rendering?

November 22, 2008

This morning, Ashley Burnett sent me a gift on Facebook. This resulted in the news feed item below:

Strangely, HTML appeared in the rendered page. I thought this might be the product of output sanitization, such as by calling htmlspecialchars or equivalent function with HTML unintentionally in the argument.
But upon inspecting the page with FireBug, I [...]

Internet | 0 Comments

How Facebook Can Monetize Birthdays

July 13, 2008

Background
It was recently my birthday and I received a massive number of wall posts on my Facebook profile. This Birthday Effect is propagated when Facebook advertises a user’s birthday to a user’s friends on the Home page via a profile link. I call this hyperlink the Birthday Link. The effect occurs for virtually every one [...]

Advertising, Internet, Monetization | 1 Comments

Finally a Blog

July 6, 2008

After years of writing only impromptu articles, I’ve decided to take the leap and write on a routine basis via this blog.
Why a Blog
A blog is a powerful, thought-provoking medium of discussion. Blogging gives me the opportunity to explore my ideas with a wider audience. Tangentially, I seek deeper understanding of the topics that interest [...]

Blogging, Internet | 2 Comments