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More weekend links from my Twitter account
If you want to grab these in real time, you can follow me on Twitter at @andrew_chen.
As always, I can’t promise they are all work-related 
- new microsoft ad with seinfeld, i like it. http://snurl.com/3n4×6
- 11-year old girl saved her family by knowing an upturned car can explode because it happens in Grand Theft Auto. http://snurl.com/3n1vw
- Funny Flash game - Pigeon Projectiles: http://is.gd/2blg
- great discussion on offerpal on venturebeat by @eldon: http://snurl.com/3mn0i
- pretty sweet t-shirt: http://store.glennz.com/grounddefenses.html
- myspace continues to grow, both in uniques and overall engagement: http://snurl.com/3mfpw
- top advertisers online - note that these skew towards large, remnant buyers: http://snurl.com/3mfpq
- another example of america != SF, mapquest still has 46% marketshare in maps: http://snurl.com/3mfp6
- lol. “Pizza grabbed 4 of 10 spots in a recent list of mobile-directory restaurant searches in US metropolitan areas” http://snurl.com/3mfop
- there needs to be more advertising related open-source projects i wanted to give this one a plug: http://snurl.com/3md6l
- vanity fair article on rupert murdoch: http://tinyurl.com/55×6yd
- compete.com blog, ctr and conversion rate comparisons: http://tinyurl.com/663gq5
- pretty cool futuristic tennis video: http://www.lacoste-future.com/
- interview with mike moritz and john doerr: http://snurl.com/3m3ak
- behavioral targeting on the ISP-side continues to drift out of favor: http://snurl.com/3m0sz
- star trek the experience (vegas) closing down: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/09/01/star.trek.voyage.ending.ap/index.html
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Here's a quick preview of the tech scene from a recent article in Barron's:
A Veil of Gloom Descends Across Techland
By Eric J. Savitz
Word Count: 1,308 | Companies Featured in This Article: Semiconductor HOLDR, Taiwan Semiconductor, MEMC Electronic Materials, SanDisk, Micron, Qimonda, Marvell, Research In Motion, Corning , AU Optronics, LG Display, Ciena , Yahoo! , Google, eBay, Research In Motion, Apple, Nokia
THE GREAT 2008 TECH BEAR MARKET IS MOST CERTAINLY not over. Believe me, I wish I could tell you otherwise. But the evidence continues to mount: Demand from both consumers and corporate IT departments appears to be sagging. And there's no sign that we're near the bottom.
Judging by what we've learned in the past week alone, if you were a prosecutor trying to make the case that the tech sector is guilty of over-promising and under-delivering, the defense would have no case whatsoever. Consider:
PC DEMAND SEEMS TO BE SOFTENING....Tech began to show signs of deterioration two weeks ago, ...
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I'd like to add that "NYC != America" and "America != World".
Too often, people think their values are representative of the entire world.
Engineers often forget to internationalize code, because "everyone knows English, right?".
This is also reminded of one of Andrew's previous posts on the MySpace UI.
http://andrewchenblog.com/2007/11/29/do-you-eve...
I happen to agree that MySpace's UI is ugly, but I also understand some person in Kansas loves it.
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