Tim Armstrong, President, Advertising & Commerce, North America, and David Eun, Vice President, Content Partnerships at Google to Speak at Bear Stearns 21st Annual Media Conference

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced today that Tim Armstrong, President, Advertising & Commerce,
North America, and David Eun, Vice President, Content Partnerships, will participate in a question-and-answer session at the Bear Stearns 21st Annual Media Conference in Palm Beach, FL. The session is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time / 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Monday, March [...]

ASW08 Looking Back at My New Friends at Affiliate Marketing Summit West

Apologies for the lack of posts during the conference. My Dell Inspiron, as well as several other people’s, could not connect to the Affiliate Summit Internet signals. This is Dell’s fault, not Affiliate Summit’s. On that note, Dell needs to finally take responsibility for the many flawed drivers and poorly designed hinges in these machines [...]

Traveling to Las Vegas for Affiliate Summit West – ASW08

You’ll see me at Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas next week, I will look like that guy in the picture above. I’ll be at the Affilliatebash for sure, if you have other events you’d like me to attend, please drop me an email.
See you at the show!

Google’s Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Engineering & Research to Present at Morgan Stanley Technology Conference

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — February 21, 2008 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG)
announced today that Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Engineering
& Research will participate in a question-and-answer session at the
Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in Dana Point, CA. The session is
scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Pacific Time / 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time on
Monday, March 3, 2008.
To access the live [...]

Google Creates Alumni Relations Program Manager Position

It appears that Google is starting to prepare for the inevitable acceleration of pre-IPO employee departures and exodus as it has posted the role of Alumni Relations Program Manager. UPDATE: While I at first thought this was creating an employee alumni program from my quick read, it’s actually to create relationships with university alumni [...]

Venture Capital Speed Dating – Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford University

As part of Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford University, they are holding a Venture Capital Speed Dating event and mixer. This event looks like so much fun, I wish we had casual events like this here in Chicago, especially since Stanford encourages lifetime social interaction with the community and properly sees it’s role as larger than [...]

Biggest Threats Google Faces – Adding to Rand Fishkin’s Post

Rand put together a very thought provoking piece on the threats Google faces.
Since he asked for feedback on the article about other potential threats, I’ll say his list is a fine starting point, then I’ll add these:
The first one I’ll call 1b – A privacy breach event at Google (think search history in a court [...]

Andy Sernovitz: “It’s good to have a goofy name”

He’s right that having a distinct name online can be extremely helpful. It has plenty of search engine results implications.  Not enough people think about this issue when naming a company or product.
This is a really smart tip.

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