I re-did the ianbell.com web site last night. It looks like I actually know what I’m doing, no? The downside is it no longer formats identically on WAP as it does on the WWW…. but then, we all know how I feel about WAP. Enjoy. -Ian.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010318/tc/satellite_radio_2.html Sunday March 18 10:02 PM ET Audio Satellite Launched Into Orbit By ANDREW BRIDGES, AP Science Writer LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) – The first of a pair of digital audio broadcast satellites soared...
…comes this spooky supposition: Take a picture This is not a fuck. Well maybe it is, for Yahoo, being as they’re worth so little these days (when they used to be worth much more). Okay fine it’s not a fuck. Anyway. Rumor has it Kodak will shortly be...
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010316/wat023473_2.html Friday March 16, 4:45 pm Eastern Time Macaroni and cheese maker Kraft Foods files to go public WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) – Kraft Foods Inc., whose products include macaroni and cheese and Oscar Mayer hot dogs,...
In typical Idealab! fashion, they’re patenting this bogus “method” (prior art with Alternic?). Why didn’t they just submit an application to ICANN to become a registrar for a Top Level Domain? Isn’t that easier (and cheaper) than trying...
Didn’t I predict this article in my Globe and Mail dispatch? 🙂 -Ian. —- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010311/wr/tech_lifestyle_dc_1.html Sunday March 11 8:01 AM ET Internet Stock Flop Zaps Dot-Com Lifestyle By Michael Kahn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)...
I’m SO glad I left. If their stock continues to tank they won’t have to lay off anybody. But christ, when I joined Cisco in September 1998 Cisco had 18,000 employees. But now 44,000? That’s crazy. Anyway, John Chambers once said that, as a result of...
My neighbour in LA is still dating Marc. I think your opinion is a popular one. He’s been marketed, at times, as a wunderkind and a technological visionary. I think that, if anything, Netscape’s failure to execute on anything resembling a business strategy...
I never figured out what Idealab!’s investment in eVoice was, but it can’t be too significant. Idealab! never even mentions them. Anyway, the Airwave guys pitched me their plan when they were first starting last summer. I wasn’t under anybody’s...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.