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Goodbye eBay, Hello Backcountry.com

by Pete Abilla April 7, 2009

I resigned from eBay and I’m happily joining Backcountry. I covered the company in this post back in February 2007.  I was intrigued by the company then and have continued my relationship with them over the years.  I know and respect the management team and I am especially impressed by and attracted to their core [...]

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Timeline — Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, & Amazon

by Pete Abilla August 2, 2007

Back by popular demand, I’ve updated the ajax, draggable timeline of mergers & acquisitions completed by Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Amazon. The timeline only looks at mergers and acquisitions from 2000 on, not before.  Click on the image below and Enjoy!

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Mark Cuban, NBA Fines Ajaxified

by Pete Abilla January 12, 2007

Here is the ajaxified timeline of Mark Cuban NBA Fine History. Enjoy. I was amazed to learn that Mark Cuban’s cumulative fines from the NBA are currently at $1,455,000 USD. That is a lot of money that he could’ve avoided paying if he excercised some self-control. Another way to think of Mark’s fines is in [...]

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A Pageview Alternative?

by Pete Abilla January 1, 2007

Steve Rubel declared several weeks ago that the pageview is dead. Below is a creative image Rubel had on his post: Image taken from Steve Rubel A few weeks later, Hitwise reported that MySpace had more pageviews than the Yahoo! homepage. That report resulted in a flurry of response, the main argument of which is [...]

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