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February 2008 - Posts

Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:41 PM

life is so unfair

I was at a friend's son's birthday party last weekend. We were all huddled around the parents, and the kid, with the cake and everything. No one seemed to be taking the initiative to start singing happy birthday. The parents didn't wanna do it. So I screamed
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:30 AM

have a song stuck in your head? too bad...

I have a problem. Songs magically make their way in to my head, and often stay there. Sometimes, I can't get them out. Sometimes, the only way to get one song out, is to get another one in. There was this incident , and then this incident . It seems to
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:13 AM

Yelp valuation too high? Oh please...

First, congratulations to the Yelp team on raising another round . Just last week at the Online Marketing Summit after our panel talk, I spoke to a few people from other verticals like medical, finance and automotive about how I think everyone sees the
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Monday, February 25, 2008 8:37 PM

google maps for mobile v window live for mobile

I've had my Samsung Blackjack II for a few months now. One of the things about this phone that excited me the most was the integrated GPS. I unlocked the GPS receiver (follow the instructions on that site verbatim to unlock your GPS*) to work outside
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Monday, February 25, 2008 9:25 AM

fine twitter, you win

I cave : http://twitter.com/anandiyer " ai " Technorati Tags: twitter
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Friday, February 22, 2008 3:33 PM

the past and pending

You couldn't be listening to a better song on a wet Friday afternoon... now playing : " the past and pending ", " the shins " " ai "
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:32 PM

Steve Ballmer is misunderstood

In the wake of the Microsoft-Yahoo acquisition proposal, I've met quite a few disappointed Yahooligans. And they are not disappointed that they'd be working at Microsoft, they are disappointed that they'd be working for Steve Ballmer . And it's not just
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Monday, February 18, 2008 12:54 PM

my upcoming events - see you there?

Online Marketing Summit 2/21-2/22 : San Diego, CA Entrepreneurship Weekend 2/22-2/29 : Stanford - Palo Alto, CA Search Marketing Expo 2/26-2/28 : Santa Clara, CA MIX'08 3/4-3/7 : Las Vegas, NV SXSW 3/7-3/11 : Austin, TX Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio
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Friday, February 15, 2008 9:25 AM

my best compliment

Sure a lot of my blog posts are self-righteous, self-involved, non-humble posts. This one's not very different. But I felt like I need to air this one out, because it felt good, just thinking about what I'd heard. A friend told me the other day that she
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:29 AM

hear me out

now playing : " hear me out ", frou frou " ai "
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 2:56 PM

I heart Valleywag

http://valleywag.com/354560/yahoomicrosoft-photoshop-contest-winners " ai "
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Sunday, February 03, 2008 8:18 PM

my favorite superbowl commercial

" ai " Technorati Tags: superbowl commercial , mytalkingstain
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Friday, February 01, 2008 11:53 AM

the swing of the pendulum*

A few years ago, I'd made a new year's resolution - the resolution was to not make any more resolutions. This year, I had to break my pact. I made some resolutions. I'm tired of being a victim of circumstance. Oh, the market's slumping, oh, the economy
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