July 31st, 2008 — General
It has already been reported in a number of places that Interjuncture, the company that created and ran the premiere hosting event HostingCon, had agreed to sell the conference to iNET interactive at the end of the 2008 event. The final event of HostingCon 2008 was a networking barbecue event on the rooftop of Navy Pier. The event ran from 5:00 pm until 10:00 pm on Wednesday, July 30 and offered good food, great networking and a phenomenal view. I considered myself lucky to be at the event and doubly so to get a picture or two of the actual signing of the HostingCon sale contracts.
Pictured: Troy Augustine, iNET’s President and CEO, George Roberts, the CEO of Interjucture, and Frank Spaulding, Interjucture’s COO.
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July 30th, 2008 — General
I headed out to Chicago’s Navy Pier for HostingCon a conference I had not attended before. I went not as an attendee but a part of the 100+ exhibitors showing their wares and services on the expo hall floor.
I love going to new technology/internet conferences and seeing what type of attendee they attract. Not surprisingly HostingCon brings together a wide varielty of people involved in the hosting industry, people selling dedicated and shared hosting, reselling hosting, server manufacturers, spam control companies, etc…
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July 16th, 2008 — General
Three years ago my wife got intrigued with the idea of riding the STP (Seattle to Portland) bike ride. For those not familiar with STP it’s a 200 mile bike ride that has 9,500 riders each year. (The ride is limited to 9,500 or they would have more.) She began to train but didn’t have enough time to be fully ready to ride the 200 miles on her own. I ended up riding along in the “support car” we had and ”shared” some of the miles so she didn’t overdo it. She rode the majority of the miles which I was very proud of (I only did about one third) and I walked away with an urge to do the ride on my own the next year.
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June 20th, 2008 — Deep Thoughts
This week my wife’s mother passed away after losing her battle with cancer. Petra was diagnosed with colon cancer In September and rushed into surgery the same day to have a tumor removed. Once she had regained enough of her strength she began Chemotherapy hoping to overcome the cancer or at least extend her time with her family. The doctor’s did not offer a lot of hope for a full recovery but Petra kept her spirits up and continued living as normally as possible amongst the treatments, checkups and forced rest that became a part of her life.
Petra was only 60 when she passed away and we feel that life took her much too quickly from us.
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June 18th, 2008 — Search & Marketing
I just noticed on the Lexicon Digital Communications website the 3+ minute “LDC Movie” which shows David Caruso, Nils Lahr and Frank Nein traveling to the Las Vegas Convention Center (and a few other locations) where they take a moment to look out at the Vegas landscape. This is the fruition of the photo and video shots that were being taken during the David Caruso visit to PubCon this last year. Continue reading →
May 21st, 2008 — Search & Marketing
My buddy Oilman has a liveblog write up on the Microsoft Live Search Cashback program which was officially announced today at Advance08. Read his writeup for details on the program but the basic theory is that if you purchase items from advertisers on Live Search you will get a small percentage of the purchase price back in a rebate. (The rebate is held 60 days to keep people from buying an item, returning it and still collecting the rebate.) Continue reading →
March 29th, 2008 — General
“We may not always get what we want, we may not get what we need, just so long as we don’t get what we deserve.”
That quote (from the movie True Colors starring John Cusack and James Spader) has always amused me. A friend of mine and I used to quote it to each other when one or the other was frustrated about not having something we felt we “had to have” and it usually brought a grin and bit of a reality check. Yesterday was my birthday and not only did I not get what I deserve I got something I truly don’t deserve - a Canon 40D.
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February 12th, 2008 — Search & Marketing
Why didn’t I think of that? I can get my valentine’s back hair removed for a V-day present!
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February 7th, 2008 — Quotes
“I stopped drinking, cause I drink too much. Plus, I’m 40 and I have gray hair. You’re 40, you have gray hair, you drink too much…you’re no longer a WILD MAN…you’re a DRUNK!”
“Young people drink cause they think life is AWESOME! Older people drink cause they know…IT’s NOT! And because we hate young people!”
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February 4th, 2008 — Search & Marketing
The media has been buzzing over the weekend about the potential hostile takeover of Yahoo by Microsoft for something in the neighborhood of 44 billion dollars. While people hash over the pluses and minuses of such a deal what I found worth noting was a sentence tucked away in this recap of the situation.
“Indeed, Google and Yahoo have already begun hammering out a partnership that would not only outsource Yahoo’s search, but would have the companies work together in other key areas that could strengthen both their hands.”
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