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Dan Woolley — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:30:05 +0000

Todays Takeover Rumor Bought to You By Google And Sirius – TechCrunch
The Motley Fool is running a story on a rumor that Google is considering a takeover offer for US Satellite Radio provider Sirius.
The merger between Sirius and XM has yet to be approved by Federal Regulators and hence Sirius would become a takeover target if the merger failed. Google is still seeking more inventory for …

Dan Woolley — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:30:12 +0000

Best customer service letter ever – blog.pmarca.com
Letter from online electronics vendor Woot as published on Woot’s web site: I have received more than three emails from Zune buyers who are upset about Woot dropping the price of the Zune by $20 one month after it went…
That’s it, public company accounting is broken – blog.pmarca.com
One of the dirty little secrets — or rather, dirty huge non-secrets — of Wall Street is that public company accounting has been diverging further and further from cash accounting — which is to say, reality — over time. Over…

Dan Woolley — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:14:10 +0000

Century 21, the first choice among young, first time buyers – 1000Watt Blog
Focus groups are so critical. Even informal, unscientific ones are better than nothing. They always reveal hidden gems. Last night I found myself in the company of a dozen 27-31 years olds. None owned a home. When asked what I…
Can Amazon Make Startupping A Science? – GigaOM
Amazon (AMZN) is trying to turn the art of internet startups into a science. At an open event at Stanford yesterday, a couple hundred or so entrepreneurs, VCs, and developers talked about how Amazon Web Services — cheap and elastic storage, computing, message queuing, and payments — could change, or is already changing, their businesses.“We’re …
Looking Back To The Future of Data Centers – GigaOM
I was talking to some colleagues earlier this month about Intel’s (INTC) plan to have an 80-core processor ready for the market within five years.I’ve written about commodity computing in this space before, but this latest Intel announcement made me realize that we’re on the verge of a fundamental architectural change in the enterprise data …
Franchisors: It’s time to get back into the real estate business – 1000Watt Blog
A few weeks ago I gave a presentation at a technology briefing sponsored by a major computer hardware manufacturer. The audience was a small group of executives from a large real estate corporation. I shared my perspective on how mobile…