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Monthly Archive for May, 2006

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Reintroduce and refocus

Thank you for visiting!

Visitors has steadily increase since 59ideas started new year 2006. It is an opportune time to reintroduce this blog and at the same time refocus, both for the readers and myself.

A little background.

59ideas started as a companion to my 2006 project to achieve revenue online. First started on WordPress.com, it was move to it’s own domain because access to wordpress.com is blocked in China. (Yes I live in China.)

At the same time another blog was started to keep track of my project at From 0 to Independence. This too had move to it’s own domain and rename Seeking Revenue.

Since then I has started a few more sites (like Ken and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) and got in many things (way too many).

At the same time, my physical business (no, I’m not a full-time blogger) had improved (a good thing!) and little time is left for the online project.

As you can see many of the posts are now just my del.icio.us bookmarks.

So what is the focus of this blog? More importantly, what should be the focus?

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links for May 15-21

Only time for some surfing and no blogging lately.

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How to land a job at Google?

Do you want to work at Google?

Nowaday the surest way to land a job at Google is to do something that catches their attention and have Google acquire you.

We had already seen it happened to Writely. The latest (which may not be by the time I write this) is Gtalkr (see also list of sites ending with “r”) according to news from the horses mouth. TechCrunch spoke to Gtalkr founder and gained some insights.

The Gtalkr team, Dudley Carr and Wes Carr, now pursue new projects as Google employees.

Meebo perhaps has lost a chance. Or will Google do a MeasureMap again?

We already know that Sean, the developer of Gaim, works for Google on Google Talk.

Start thinking. What else does Google still need?

links for May 8 - 14

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links for May 1 - 7

Plenty of surfing because I’m out of the great firewall zone for a few weeks. It is like breathing fresh air to be able to surf wordpress.com and blogspot without proxy.
I cannot believe it. Few months into del.icio.us, I have 600+ bookmarks.

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