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Leaving Search Engine Watch: little known fact: Danny Sullivan was one of the very, very first people to get me hooked on to the Internet as a career. Story: when I was just 16, I did a summer internship at the Orange County Register. As a part of that, I launched what would be the fifth newspaper ever online (ocregister.com, formerly called RWorld at that time). During that summer, I also started programming an http logfile analytics program in Visual Basic (I called it Weblog). Val Cohen and Leah Gentry (who I worked for) figured it’d be good for me to do some work over at our Internet hosts office. Maximized Online, in Irvine, CA was co-owned by former OC Register graphic designer Danny Sullivan and Ken Spreitzer. I worked in their offices (using a beta of VB4) using a projector as my monitor. Ken taught me a lot about writing good code. Danny about aesthetics, etc. Good times. I wish you luck Danny.

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Danny Sullivan to leave SES and SEW…

Yes, it’s sad, for now…Danny Sullivan is leaving SES and SEW.
The rumors that he is leaving to build the world’s largest design firm of flash web sites are unfounded!
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Rauschenberg is one of my ultimate favorite artists and his passing is terribly sad

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Funny thing is, with smart people, these are not challenges. With smart partners, they are open opportunities.

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seriously: awesome news if this is true. I hope they provide API hooks through XMPP payloads as well, as some good ole stateful API programs would be every nice indeed. Death to HTTP polling! FBML pushes through XMPP for the win!

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This is an incredible story that I didn't know much about, but every jew and non-jew should read and be inspired by.

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The ultimate twitter revenue is the use of premium SMS to provide for "fanclub" type feeds for some individuals. These would be exclusive feeds with some public messages and some private. For instance, imagine a band X that had a 1 dollar a month Twitter feed. The private 1 dollar a month feed included exclusive information, links to songs, etc. Also another twitter revenue source that can't happen if they don't fix their infrastructure: reselling the infrastructure! Getting good economies of scale with their SMS gateway and reuse from the HTTP and XMPP API's. The premium SMS one I've been hounding Ev and Biz about for a year now. I want it!

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I feel like Anne Sullivan: "IT HAS A NAME!" Well thank goodness for that, because after all this time I thought I was working on just Technology!

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water finds its level

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Finally a nice use of Core Animation. Groovy and tactile.

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