Pilgrim’s Picks for February 18
Monday, February 18th, 2008;
-- Andy Beal |
Today I get to fly to England for the third time in 6 weeks! It’s a grueling overnight flight, but worth it as I’ll get to see family and join some talented search marketers for SES London.
Before I pack my bags and head on out–don’t worry, I’ll still blog this week–here are some picks that caught my eye today.
- paidContent has summarized some interesting stuff from Google’s recent 10-K filing. Including increased employee numbers and confirmation that advertising still makes up 99% of its revenues. (via)
- Valleywag claims to have gotten its hands on screenshots for Yahoo buzz–a Digg-like clone it seems.
- A Google contractor is trying to sue Google for $25M for allegedly stealing an idea for Google Earth. Question is, if you were a contractor for Google, and posted the idea to an internal Google email group, doesn’t that idea belong to Google now? I guess the courts will decide.
- And lastly, YouNoodle.com claims to have created a technology that will help VCs predict if a start-up will be successful or not. That said, they’re too scared to test it on their own start-up’s worth–there’s confidence for you.
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February 18th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
I’m a little leery of determining the success of a business based on a prediction tool. Personally, I believe the success of any business is based on things that can’t be foreseen such as ambition, vision and constantly changing market factors.
I highly doubt the prediction tool can tell an investor that the start-up’s founders are going to work hard and see needs that they can meet.
That said, the concept is definitely interesting and does take into account some variables such as networks that can proof valuable in any decision.
February 19th, 2008 at 1:52 am
I never heard about Yahoo buzz before but I am really interested with it. With Digg you can generate many visitors and I hope Yahoo buzz will do the same.