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Google uncloaks once-secret server: geeky goodness... so those shipping container rumors were based in substance after all

Performics Search to spread wings, fly

Well, after months of speculation, the official word is in: Selling Performics Search Marketing. The emerging media team will be tagging along with our big brother the search business while our friends in affiliate will become part of Google. I for one will continue to make the most of excellent catered lunches (while they last) now that I know my fate!

Let the next phase begin

Now things really get interesting: EU Clears Google-DoubleClick Deal (WSJ)

And direct from the mothership: We've officially acquired DoubleClick

"Ignite" session at GSP/ETech

More koan-like notes:

 

• Breath. Email apnea.
• Jimmy Guterman: secret of success. Screw up. Accidents. Blogger and twitter. 
• Matt Webb. Resist the giant boring planets like the space spiders.
• Virtual to physical: stefan moo. Moo api. Adam koford. Kthxbye 
• Dod acquisition process.
• Saul griffith: howtoons. Childhood is your last chance to be a hero. 
• Social graph api: Kevin marks. Social cloud: make it "someone else's problem field". Stop thinking about self as email address and start as URL. Rel=me. Hidden info? Opensocial. Take your app to their platform. Pple, friends, activities in the api cloud.
• Deborahschultz.com. When we weave cool shut happens. Visualcomplexity.com. 
• Taskiran: sending messageas in innocent cover. Spammimic.com. Iraqi head seeks arms. Mercan.topkara.org
• David orban. Open spime. Contraction of space and time. Know when they are where they are. P2P science. Openspime.org
• Threshold of indignation. Sweet spot simplifies your life. Baroque phase complicates your life. More sweet spot. Less baroque.
• Sarah's walk to work. Intagible method.

Xmas goodness

Celebrated Christmas this year by unplugging and before that December got hectic. Getting back in gear now and intend to get some fresh thoughts flowing here.

A few observations / thoughts to get the observational flow going again:

• Radiohead's "name your price" strategy yielded more fruit for the band when I demanded the boxed set of their studio albums for xmas. Working my way backwards to trace the path to In Rainbows, by far my favorite album of the year. Now, just to see them live. Milan in June sounds like fun!
  
• Finally reading Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. Taking me back to the thrill and mythic majesty of reading Tolkien as a teen, though as Pullman says in this interview, the thrust and spirit of the two series could not be more different! And while the film of The Golden Compass had some beautifully realized characters (Kidman's Mrs. Coulter and Lyra) and a few gripping scenes, the story just never really got any momentum. I found myself wishing that Peter Jackson had directed it... Perhaps if he'd settled his feud with New Line sooner, it would have been another blockbuster series?!
• For others who didn't get a wii under the trii, check out another electronic game that gets kids and adults off the sofa: HyperDash. Brought to you with the magic of RFID! Good wholesome family fun, as they say...
• See Juno. And not just because Ellen Page and Jason Reitman are both Canadian or because they somehow made Vancouver stand in for Minneapolis! It doesn't fall in the wholesome family fun category, necessarily... But see it because we should collectively reward the movie industry for such a sympathetic and optimistic rendering of ordinary, decent, self-aware people triumphing in a sticky situation. Dammit: it IS because it feels really Canadian that you should see it!

Might actually have a thing or two to say about web marketing once I soak in it for a while...

More of an active role in my decisions

Link: Paris Hilton begins jail sentence. 04/06/2007. ABC News Online.

"This is an important point in my life and I need to take responsibility for my actions," Hilton said in the statement.

"In the future, I plan on taking more of an active role in the decisions I make."

Let's see now. In the near term, you're not going to be making many decisions. The State of California will cover it for you. In the longer term, you might want to involve yourself in selecting a publicist with a firmer grasp of the obvious. Keep it up and you'll be Mother Teresa yet.