Ah yes, the eagle with a tear in its eye. And everyone did die in the end. I prefer to remember the timeless quote how executives have mortgages too.
Monthly Archives: October 2005
Oct 29
Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0
Simply put, Web 2.0 is all the rage. A sold out Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco sparked an outpour of ideas on what Web 2.0 means and how it will revolutionize the Internet. The term “Web 2.0″ is slightly nebulous, though. A Wired article about the event states that [...]
Oct 25
Healthy Seattle Startup Climate
The Seattle PI offers a rosey portrait of the Seattle startup climate. Report John Cook describes the prominent up-tick in venture vapital funding: VC money is up 35% over last year’s third quarter and Washington now receives the fourth largest amount of vecture capital investments behind California, Massachusetts and Florida.
Naturally, some are concerned about [...]
Oct 21
Comment on Holmgren doesn’t like Jobster’s neighborhood by: Derickson
Well, at least to the best of my knowledge nobody on the team is making a big stink about the new rule. Last night’s news touched on the NBA’s new dress code and Allen Iverson was not very happy about it. A choice remark was that the rule was racist, citing that black people wearing [...]
Oct 21
Holmgren doesn’t like Jobster’s neighborhood
Jobster is located in Pioneer Square, a very historic and colorful area of downtown Seattle. With the good comes the bad, and with the color comes the sketchiness. Late Sunday after the Seahawks destroyed the Texans at home, starting Seahawk safety Ken “The Hammer” Hamlin was hospitalized after being assaulted outside of a [...]
Oct 20
Comment on Bad Company Slogans by: shaug
Apparently, you weren’t “In it to win it, and have fun!”
Oct 20
Bad Company Slogans
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal has an amusing article on corporate slogans. In “Project Jalapeno? Motivating Employees With Catchy Slogans” the author argues that
slogans and other internal branding efforts … mean to sharpen focus but end up as emblems of corporate wishful thinking, objects of satire, and indicators of how clueless upper management is.
While [...]
Oct 16
The Jobster Playground
Phil, Jobster’s fearless CTO, was kind enough to set up a Jobster innovation playground: labs.jobster.com. This dedicated server will host bleeding edge projects, blogs, and anything else that isn’t ready for prime time on www.jobster.com. It will be interesting to see what we come up with.
I consider myself a blog [...]