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Layoff Tracker from Adotas

by Chris DessiFebruary 9, 2009

Layoff Tracker

AOL – 700
Google – 100
IBM – more than 2,800
LiveJournal – 12
Microsoft – 5,000
Sprint Nextel – 8,000
Viacom – 850
World Avenue – 30 percent of workforce
Yahoo – 1,520
Zango – more than 100

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Beer Goggles for Email?

by Chris DessiFebruary 4, 2009

If you didn’t think the folks over at Google were geniuses before, think again.  I just came across an article on Reuters indicating that Google is offering a Gmail feature called “Mail Goggles”
“Mail Goggles” helps users avoid sending regrettable email or Gchat messages, an instant messaging system, by making them pass a simple math test [...]

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MIVA News

by Chris DessiNovember 14, 2008

Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
 

Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.On November 10, 2008, MIVA, Inc. (“MIVA”) and Google, Inc. entered into an Amended and Restated Google Services Agreement (the “Google Agreement”), effective January 1, 2009, which amends and restates MIVA’s current Google Services Agreement which was set to expire on December 31, [...]

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Media and Wedia

by Chris DessiNovember 10, 2008

Last week I ran into my daughter’s room and excitedly told my wife that I thought I may have coined a term (this heady little insight is on my list of things to “do before I die”)….I was thrilled.  I’ve been immersing myself in everything Web 2.0, ever since attending the Web 2.0 Expo.  I [...]

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Wordpress VS. Google's Blogger

by Chris DessiNovember 5, 2008

Last week I made the leap from Google’s Blogger platform to Wordpress, and I have to say – I’m impressed. It took me a bit longer than I would have liked to transfer all of my posts for the past 2 years to Wordpress, but so far it seems like it’s been worth it. The [...]

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When Google said NO, discovering opportunity out of adversity.

by Chris DessiMarch 14, 2007

About 5 months before Google went public, I had a very interesting experience. I had been working at AGA, a creative design agency that develops catalogs brochures etc. AGA is a great company, and I loved working there. I had just come back from a phenomenal year in London that had been hugely successful for [...]

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