Pilgrim’s Picks for April 2 - Birthday Edition

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008;
-- Andy Beal |

It’s birthday cake time at Marketing Pilgrim! No, the blog itself is not celebrating its birthday, but today is the birthday of our own Jordan McCollum! OK, OK, it’s my birthday too!

It’s not a requirement that, in order to work here, your birthday has to be on April 2nd, but it might help. ;-)

For those of you not celebrating a birthday today, you can still partake of these news Picks:

  • The UK’s Times reports on a forecast predicting internet piracy will take food off the table of authors. As an author, I disagree. It’s the very small royalties payments that will take food off our table. ;-)
  • TechCrunch…blah, blah….rumor…blah, blah, blah…multiple sources…blah, blah…Google buying or partnering with Skype? Could be interesting, if true.
  • Another rumor lacking substance. Valleywag is reporting Google will lay off 15% of newly-acquired DoubleClick’s workforce.
  • USA Today wants to help you figure out if it is time to buy GOOG or sell it.
  • ChannelAdvisor helps companies do business on eBay–they’re also located here in North Carolina. It has announced the addition of 170 new clients. If it ever goes public, I’m buying some shares–it’s a hot company!

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13 Responses to “Pilgrim’s Picks for April 2 - Birthday Edition”

  1. Prosperity Writer Says:

    happy birthday!

  2. JasonM Says:

    Happy Birthday Jordan!

  3. Janet Meiners Says:

    Happy birthday Pilgrims! You almost had Mozilla to add to the list of birthday celebrations today. Here’s the Wikipedia page about April 2nd.
    cheers
    Janet

  4. Michael Jensen Says:

    Happy Birthday Andy and Jordan! Celebrate all day and all week long! :)

  5. Kristen Says:

    Happy Happy Birthday from Social Media Mom!

  6. JasonM Says:

    Happy Birthday to you too Andy! (sorry, misread the post). Hope you guys get a big office cake!

  7. Andy Beal Says:

    Thanks for all of your birthday wishes.

  8. Joan Says:

    Happy Birthday :) It’s my birthday too!! April 2nd rules!

  9. Jordan McCollum Says:

    Thanks guys! Happy birthday Andy (and Joan)!

  10. Derek Says:

    Birthday wishes to all!

  11. Douglas Karr Says:

    Happy Birthday, Andy! For some reason I had your date wrong… I had the 3rd in my calendar. As usual, I’m a day late!

  12. Seomotion Says:

    Thank. Happy Birthday. I had Birthday 3 days ago:)

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