27 Jun 2002

Thu, 27 Jun 2002

Sam Wyly moves his proxy fight to CA's board

Sam Wyly of Ranger Governance is still after Computer Associates. Wa ha ha ha.[cnn money]


 

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Who fans mourn John Entwistle

John Entwistle dies before tour starts. [msnbc.com]

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Adam Curry would like Teoma to compete with Google - not yet Adam

Adam Curry says:



A word about developers and successful products on the Internet. Yesterday was the last day that my wife's company LaPaay was located in the same building as one of our other investments; CapCave. Both companies are growing rapidly and we needed to ensure everyone has enough breathing room, so we decided to move LaPaay to the ground floor of our other building on the canal, about 7 minutes walk from the 'old place'. I really hadn't given the move too much thought, especially since it's so close by.


Boy, did I underestimated the human aspect of this move.

There's about 25 developers, geeks and nerds at CapCave, and these guys have been living under the same roof with the most gorgeous girls and boys for 2 years. You can only imagine how sad they were to seee the LaPaayers go! They even shot and edited a video of all the geeks saying goodbye, too raunchy and personal for the blog, but very touching.

There you have it. Geeks have feelings.

And once you realize this, the more you will benefit from your rocket-science-relationship(s) That's exactly what LaPaay had apparently realized long ago, because this video tape was full of stuff like "just holler if the printer's busted again" and "anytime you need your mailing database purged, just shoot me a call".

Don't we all dream of such support?! This what Dave is talking about when he suggests taking a programmer to lunch once in a while. Show some normal human compassion, get over external appearances. There's a beautiful human hiding behind those glasses and pocket protector!

Companies can also benefit from the geek forces. Especially companies that sell technology, software, services or hardware. Send some love to developers. You won't regret it. Same bunch of geeks answered my question from yesterday about Teoma. Immediate response: "awesome! technically better than google!"

Now, which search engine do you think the developer is going to be thinking of the most? Teoma or Google, who have opened their geekishly named API so the nerds of the world can 'tinker around', in the process learning about google's technology and often improving it along the way.

Google became the defacto search engines because geeks coined it 'da bomb' in companies everywhere, just like altavista before it. In fact, wasn't this whole innernet thang just us geeks 10 years ago?!

Perhaps a long windup, but I really want Teoma to have a chance to shine. I'm a shareholder and hope management and the board are listening. Even Steve Ballmer knows it: Developers!! [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]


Well, Adam, if you really want Teoma to have a chance to shine, let me give you some advice. Tell them to make their submit a site process as brain-dead simple as google's. Google gets it. Period. End of discussion. That's why they're #1. When I went to submit my site on Teoma, it's like going through some porn site indocrination with windows popping up all over the place and redirects to a third-party that wants me to PAY THEM to put my site on Teoma. That's bullshit and it's exactly the reason why Teoma will remain an also-ran as long as they don't get it. You might want to tell them to read Jakob Nielsen.

Finally, Teoma's usefulness as a search engine is directly related to the size of their crawled cache. If they understood that, they'd have already rolled out the red carpet on their submit a site. Unfortunately, Phd's get the hard part but they often overlook the simple stuff.

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I'm glad this moron's not my representative

Exactly the reason why these people should not be setting technology direction, or precedent: New Scientist New US law would allow music-sharing sabotage. [( blogdex : recent )]

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