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Goodbye eBay, Hello Backcountry.com

by Pete Abilla on April 7, 2009

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn 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 [...]

Off-Topic: Win an AIG Maraca

by Pete Abilla on March 23, 2009

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Last night, I was on the floor playing with my toddler and I noticed that he was shaking a maraca — so we had a daddy/baby jam session, with me tapping on the carpet and with him shaking the maraca. Then, I noticed [...]

Barack Obama, “Yes We Can”: A PowerPoint Deck

by Pete Abilla on March 13, 2008

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn PowerPoint is a world of incomplete sentences, fragmented thoughts, unemotional, dispassionate, and semantically-empty byte-size blob of consultant-speak. Okay — maybe that tone is too strong but, generally, PowerPoint is not the most effective medium of communication. I think most people would agree with [...]

2007 Year-in-Review

by Pete Abilla on February 18, 2008

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn I meant to post about site metrics for shmula.com in 2007, but am obviously very late. In what follows, I’ll summarize the shmula.com blog traffic, reader demographics including gender, household income, and geolocation, feed subscribers, and also other site metric items. 2007 was [...]

Amazon Alumni Group, Peak Season

by Pete Abilla on December 15, 2007

Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Peak Season at Amazon was so fun and memorable and the queues are massive. There are two peak season — the inbound peak and the outbound peak. Inbound is when inventory is brought into the Fulfillment Centers (FC), which is around August to [...]