Joelle Nebbe

"For past two years, I have been pointing towards a subtle but important shift that has started to take place - the globalization of the Internet. Thanks to a broadband boom in Europe, Asia and in new emerging economies such as Brazil and China, we are seeing the Internet traffic shift away from its historic US centricity. " - Joelle Nebbe

"So the new folks, freshly funded, hire lots of people, young'uns like themselves who are doing it The New Way. They ship some products, and while the users are happy and excited about all the cool new things they can do with the new generation, now that they're freed of the limits of the previous one, they still want all the features they had come to expect in the old days. No problem! The new companies hire more people and they add all the features of the old generation. Feature wars follow, and the users get bored, and a new generation of techies comes along, takes a look at the current stack, finds it too daunting (rightly so) and decides to start over from scratch." - Joelle Nebbe via Bookmarklet

guessing it's not through an official relationship w/ sfgate as their own search is powered by yahoo. - James Miao

Probably there are more conditions: 1) the query is navigational (e.g.: [youtube]); 2) the query is popular; 3) there are many query refinements (e.g.: [youtube u2]) - Ionut

@Joelle, ah but we're starting to see the "Everything must be free" philosophy come back around and bite us all in the ass. Google needs to move more ads, they need you to stick around their page longer. Just wait until Google misses an earnings call... - mikepk

Hate it. - Sweyn via twhirl

Much better on the netbook. - Bec Rowe

Quite nice. Its easier to read stuff now - Keshav Khera

"So they pull up behind a state trooper to ask for his help in getting to the hospital. Do they get his help? They do not. They get a ticket instead, for $100, and have to wait while the cop finishes the ticket he was already writing for someone else. And after this woman in labor and her husband have been made to cool their heels and have been slapped with a $100 dollar ticket -- after all that -- the trooper tops it off by asking Jennifer Davis, the woman in question, to prove she was pregnant." - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet

Bad time to run into a black and white thinker. - Internet Strategist

Reading the original story, it seems to me that the cop was an ass, but these people were also rather stupid. She wanted to give birth 30 miles away, but when she went into labor they didn't set out to drive until her contractions were 5 minutes apart EVEN THOUGH IT WAS RUSH HOUR. They took their time arranging things, had they hurried then they would probably not have been in a panic on the highway. They are all irate now, but these people could have avoided all their problems by planning for things. - Joelle Nebbe

So far, the commenters on my site _don't_ want Twitter and FriendFeed to go mainstream. Do you want to keep these technologies to yourself? - Louis Gray

No question, when a service hits critical mass, the conversation will change. Look at YouTube - people are always bemoaning the boorish, illiterate nature of the comments there. Will we stick around when Scoble or Louis pose an interesting question and half the comments are spam and profanity? - Laura Norvig

I don't want FF to go mainstream because then it will probably be blocked at work like FB, Myspace, etc... - Josh Begin

"Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid have been lined up to take on one of the most high-profile projects on earth – the redevelopment of Mecca According to sources, the scheme for Islam's holiest city could create a huge new structure around the central Haram mosque that will eventually be capable of holding three million people, making it the 'highest occupancy' building in the world. The top-secret plans are being backed by King Abdullah ben Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia who has asked a hand-picked collection of starchitects to 'establish a new architectural vision' for the 356,800m2 mosque complex. The AJ believes that the project is likely to be phased, with phase one transforming the mosque from having an official capacity of 900,000 to 1.5 million. This will then go up to three million with the completion of several phases over the following five to 10 years. - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

It is understood the proposals have been split into two 'tracks', with Foster + Partners earmarked to look at a range of alternatives for the northern expansion of the Haram mosque. Ten other practices are also believed to have been approached to draw up feasibility studies for the extension programme, including Atkins. Meanwhile Hadid has been given the prize task of coming up with ideas for the Haram mosque itself as well as 'revisiting the whole area of the central district'. Another six other 'world renown' architects have also been linked with the job. British-based engineers Adams Kara Taylor and Faber Maunsell are also in the frame for the multi-billion pound project. A source close to project told the AJ: 'This study is not meant to be a competition… the main objective of the design studies is to enrich our discourse on how we should address the future architecture of the Haram and its growth. 'These design exercises in addition to other investigations will be subject to an exhibition - Cee Bee

there's no job too big for Zaha! Her work is simply top notch. - vijay

maybe i am a cynic but no matter what is done there will be millions upset - Joelle Nebbe

the "boy my contacts are talented" issue - Joelle Nebbe

I liked both because the new design is much sleeker and refined than the old one. - Mattie Kenny

liek it, but it looks weird with Helvetireader now - and that was soooo nice... well, hope for a Helvetireader and Better GReader greasemonkey updates now. - Peter Efland

eh - Charlie Anzman

Here's a deck I published with Shiv Singh on the potential of Facebook Connect. Let me know what you think of it. - Jesse Pickard

here's the post I ended up writing about this! http://www.readwriteweb.com/ar... - Marshall Kirkpatrick

Alright, I'm moving FB Connect up a notch or two on my priority list. - Scott

...its is driving me NUTS that we keep making it sound like the automakers are looking for a handout - its a LOAN L-O-A-N that they must pay back - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

Okay, I had to rescue a friend from the freeway... @Marco The problem with most of the companies that are financially in trouble today is they focus only on the micro and not on the macro. In other words, lack of longterm planning, and not just automakers, but all of them. I would agree with the loans if, and it's a big if, the UAW agreed to the concessions they spoke of this morning and there was a wholesale dump of the current management. http://www.signonsandiego.com/... - Mark VandenBerg

@Mark: The problem is, there isn't the demand. It's not just the Big Three that are hurting in terms of auto sales - Toyota and others (see for example: http://www.time.com/time/world...). And if auto manufacturers go, they take parts suppliers with them, so everybody hurts. - Flitcraft

I thought something looked dif-ernt. - Pete Barry

Still think I'll keep http://helvetireader.com - Mark Bean

yeah, maybe a bit too white. I don't know if they want it to go with the slick Chrome? - Patrik Johansson

fascinating! - Peter

so sweet... :)) - Anna Haro

i love watching my dog dream, she makes the cutest sounds too - Joelle Nebbe

ha ha. cute pup - Cee Bee

From Gizmodo: "Hurricanes, as we've seen, can wreak serious havoc when they strike populated areas. We've never had control over them before, but one researcher thinks they could be broken up with F-4 fighter jets. In theory, sending in a pair of the jets to do loops around the eye of the hurricane while it's still out over the ocean, creating sonic booms, would break it up before it hits the shore." - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

...And Mark steals my joke. - tehKenny

Or ... on the cheap, stir the ocean with 10,000 spoons (Some claim all you need is a knife, but that would be a false sense of irony) - Micah Wittman

(black dogs are so hard to photograph) - Joelle Nebbe

Wish I could have played in the snow today. Never mind, had to go to work :( - David Walton

pippi (my dog) in the snow this lunchtime - Joelle Nebbe

I think a lot of people might wonder what Google is doing with 20,000 employees that they weren't doing with 5,000 employees. - Chris White

Want a small engineering team? We're hiring :) http://www.yelp.com/jobs#softw... - Michael

This is a terribly written article. - Frederick Akalin