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Krugle’s Hiring — Free House!

April 23, 2006 / / 0 Comments

My friend Steve Larsen, formerly of the Twin Cities and now CEO of Krugle Inc. in Menlo Park (that’s the hot code-search startup I covered at Demo in February), just sent me a link to this cute post on his company’s blog. Hey, when you’re a startup competing for talent in the Valley, you have to be creative. (It also helps to have a crazy blogmeister like Chris Locke.)

Did I just say that tech hiring is getting competitive again? Yes, if you’re tuned in to today’s world of Web 2.0 technologies, you know what I’m talking about. And it has to be getting particularly intense in the Bay Area. The hiring page on Krugle’s web site is here. Okay, so there are other reasons to choose what company you want to work for besides a “free house.” This outfit has many. If you know someone who’s looking for a good gig, I really think they’ll thank you for this referral.

Blogland Goes Wild: Google Buys Writely

March 10, 2006 / / 5 Comments

In a shot across the bow of Microsoft, Google announced yesterday it acquired Upstartle LLC, developers of the web word-processing application Writely. The announcement was first posted on the Official Google Blog, and soon hundreds more blog posts came online — as you can see when you search the topic at the Google Blog Search page. Who says three people and an idea can’t make a difference these days? I guess it’s just more proof this Web 2.0/AJAX world is for real, folks.

Read more about it on the Writely blog, and at the independent Inside Google blog. There’s also much media analysis of this one coming inline. Here are two, from Information Week and CBR Online. This one is definitely a shot heard ’round the Web 2.0 world….

ETech News Aggregator

March 7, 2006 / / 1 Comment

I was hoping to make O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference this week in San Diego — at least to be able to drop in on the last day — but my schedule is now uncertain. Meantime, the best place I’ve found to get up to speed on what’s happening out there — well, a summary, in close to real time — is O’Reilly’s own continuously updated page: ETech Conference News. It’s written by O’Reilly’s self-described “PR gal” Suzanne Axtell. Nice job, Suzanne!

And there’s always the Atom feed, too.

ETech is the de rigeur geek-place-to-be this week, it seems. And thus you could read blogs on it all day and all of the night. Tons of bloggers there. I was telling someone earlier today, let’s hope the big one doesn’t hit San Diego this week, or we’ll lose most of the a-list and half the b…. 🙂

Meg Whitman Called: She Wants to Know What’s All This About Someone Killing Her Company

February 21, 2006 / / 0 Comments

One word: Edgeio…or should I say EdgeIO…or edgeIO…or is it edgeio? [Seems to be upper and lowercase challenged.] But it’s all the rage in the blog-o-spherical world lately because somebody said it’s an “Ebay Killer.” No wonder Michael Arrington (the TechCrunch guy) didn’t return my email — he’s been, uh, a little busy lately? And no wonder he didn’t sit in on the presentations at DEMO, but just hung out in the press room. Now we know why! He’s hyping his new play, teamed up with old buddy Keith Teare from RealNames. You’ll remember that as a Web 1.0 company that was going to change everything, but … didn’t … quite … make … it.

Lots of talk out there about this one, and why or why not it will be the next big thing. Whatever, it’s really early-on at this point…. Though they plan to pitch the company formally at one of the next big, buzzy conferences: Esther Dyson’s PC Forum next month at LaCosta (Carlsbad, CA).

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