http://www.jbryanscott.com technology, investing & related business Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:48:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.jbryanscott.com/2009/03/14/plaxos-top-support-article-delete-my-account/ 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 ... http://www.jbryanscott.com/2009/02/07/nasdaq-100-revenue-per-employee/ 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, ... http://www.jbryanscott.com/2009/01/31/opentable-a-killer-platform-youve-never-heard-of/ 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 ... http://www.jbryanscott.com/2008/11/22/html-on-facebook-not-rendering/ 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 ... http://www.jbryanscott.com/2008/07/13/how-facebook-can-monetize-birthdays/ 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 ... http://www.jbryanscott.com/2008/07/06/finally-a-blog/