From the monthly archives:

October 2006

Google’s Acquisitions: A Timeline

by Pete Abilla October 31, 2006

Update [11/07/2006]: I created another timeline mashup that shows all M&A activity completed by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo acquisition all over-layed on the same timeline, from 2001 to Present. You can find that here: Acquisition Timeline Mashup: Google, Yahoo, Microsoft As most of you know, Google acquired JotSpot today. And, just a few weeks ago, [...]

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Travel Time & Waste

by Pete Abilla October 31, 2006
This entry is part 9 of 28 in the series queueing theory

This post is part of a series on Queueing Theory. The other articles can be found here: Queueing Theory: Part 1 Queueing Theory: Part 2 Queueing Theory: Part 3 Queueing Theory: Part 4 What is Waste? On Time-Traps and Waste Call Centers as Queueing Systems Travel Time & Waste Little’s Law for Product Development There [...]

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Muay Thai Workout

by Pete Abilla October 31, 2006

I’m starting my Muay Thai workout on Wednesday. I have a heavy bag and speed bag at home that I just put together — my wife bought me a really nice bag stand — she’s the best. Here’s my schedule (Monday, Wednesday, & Friday): Round 1 Punch/Squat Interval Training – Start with my left hand, [...]

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Digg Interactive Timeline

by Pete Abilla October 30, 2006

I built this Ajaxy, Draggable Digg Interactive Timeline earlier today. It doesn’t have all the critical events surrounding Digg, but it’s a start. If you know of any critical events that I don’t have (there’s a lot that I don’t have documented below), please send them to me. I just need the event and approximate [...]

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Jack Welch & The Boston Globe, Final Chapter

by Pete Abilla October 30, 2006

Previously in Part 1 and Part 2, we discussed the possibility of Jack Welch acquiring The Boston Globe. We’ve discussed several things Jack might do, if the deal goes through. All of which, has to do with the Profit Tree model, which is below: We know that the Globe’s circulation recently dropped by as much [...]

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Disambiguating “Google”

by Pete Abilla October 27, 2006

In graduate school, I did a research project in industrial linguistics. My project was to tackle the word-sense disambiguation problem. Basically, words are uttered descriptors, each of which has a context — a sense. For example, the word “bank” can be taken as a financial institution, whereas “bank” can also be understood as a the [...]

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Jack Welch & The Boston Globe, Part 2

by Pete Abilla October 26, 2006

This is part 1 of a 3 part series. The other parts can be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Previously in Part 1, we discussed the Profit Tree for the newspaper print industry, which is shown below: From the very little data we have, we know that Sunday circulation has dropped by [...]

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Jack Welch & The Boston Globe, Part 1

by Pete Abilla October 25, 2006

This is part 1 of a 3 part series. The other parts can be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. There’s a rumor that Jack Welch and his private equity partners might acquire The Boston Globe. When I heard this, I immediately thought of the following: if Welch bought it, how would he [...]

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12 Questions with Kaboodle

by Pete Abilla October 23, 2006

From time to time, shmula interviews companies that are disruptive and value-adding, either in their approach to business, their business model, or in their technology. At bottom, these companies are doing something completely different and novel and are customer focused. To read about the companies featured on shmula, please go to the company interview page. [...]

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