Michael Galpert
be well, do goodArchive for December, 2006
How much is facebook worth?
Is there a way of placing a monitary value on communities such as
facebook, myspace, and digg that isn’t bloated? A number that is actually true to its value and not just because a board member says so ( ala facebook’s 8 billion)?
Avi just posted an Introduction to his Orbital Theory: Evaluating Online Communities. If any of you would like to join in on the conversation feel free to jump right in or we can just discuss it here.
Nonetheless I think this is a very important conversation to have before we actually enter the IPO Bubble 2.0 in 2007.
DarrenCamp
I went to DarrenCamp yesterday. It was a good time had by all. I personally think that too many people (38) showed up. Although we took over Le Pain Quotidien we had no room to move around amongst ourselves. I discussed most of my 2007 projections with Ram, Caroline, Josh, and Ekta. We discussed video advertising, free ad phones, the possibility of Google Reader exploding into Digg Status(I have a future post brewing), WikiaSari, and other goodies.
Darren did a great job and I would love to be invited to the next DarrenCamp.
GoDaddy Launches Unlimitied Photo Uploads!!!!!!! – Asterisk
GoDaddy launched a new service called Online Photo Filer and it gives you an online photo album site for sharing unlimited photos*.
The asterisk is there because it makes up for the deceptive words UNLIMITED PHOTOS that were used. In fact you don’t get to upload unlimited photos. You can only upload as many images that are within the 2.5 GB allocated disk space and 150 GB bandwith.
They also claim to offer photo printing. Nowhere on their site did it mention who prints their images and how much they are charging. Being in the business, I decided to do some detective work. I called their sales department. I was on the phone with a lovely sales woman for 20 minutes, most of that time I was listening to Brian Setzer Orchestra
So if anyone signs up for this new service please let me know how much they charge for the items printed. Thanks for playing.
High Five!!!
My Chanukah wish has been answered; I have been tagged by Jack.
So here are five things you probably don’t know about me:
- My middle name is S. Just the letter S. My parents weren’t sure how to spell my Hebrew/Yiddish (Yisrael/Srul)middle name in English so they just left my birth certificate as Michael S Galpert.
- I am obsessed with kidrobot these days. Specifically munnys, dunnys, and labbits. I dont like any vinyl toys that are bloody or have a dark side to them.
- I got a cherry pit stuck up my nose when I was younger (I am not sure how old I was, I’m going to guesstimate and say 8). So by “got a” I mean I took a cherry pit and stuck it up my nose hoping to project it across my room but unfortunately it got stuck. Mind you I had 6 successful attempts prior to the technical difficulties.
- I HATE watching previews or trailers for movies. When I’m in the theater and the previews begin that is my cue to go get refreshments, I tend to leave the theater altogether and get a cup of coffee from starbucks.
- I was a psychobiology major in college.
And now I tag the only five people I know of who haven’t been tagged yet ( I think – I hope they haven’t because then I wont get a check from Bill Gates, or get money from that guy in Africa, or I might even be placed in a spamfolder with the rest of those fwded emails I got in 6th grade ):
Nate,
Liz,
Charlie,
Avi,
Fader
The Adventure of the Flood
Its 1am and I just got home from work.
There was a flood in our bathroom it was the second time this week that we had to call flooded.com.
Lessons I learned from this experience:
- Always have an emergency kit in your office.
- It should include a tool kit
- flashlight
- power tools
- allen key
- wetvac (optional)
- Check bathrooms before leaving the office ( I cant imagine what the office would have looked like if nothing was done for 11 hours (8pm-9am) of the toilet running
I’m calling it a night. You can check out my smartset on zooomr
(did you notice my new use of the snap.com preview feature in this post?)
UPDATE: A new sign was posted in the bathroom stall that reads:
Official Google Reader Blog: Dwelling on the past
Official Google Reader Blog: Dwelling on the past
This is an nice new feature that allows you to read old feeds first. There was something about reading blog posts backwards (reading in chronological order via archives) that I always enjoyed. Maybe its because I hate knowing what happens in the end…
5 hour adventure
This morning Avi and I demo-ed Plime at 
, and had a mini adventure. Since we work in Hewlett we took the LIRR into Penn Station. While waiting for the train we noticed these two ads from Verizon FIOS we both agreed that the ads sucked. Here are the ads you can decide for yourself:
First Ad – “Locomotive Power”:
Its understandable that we were at a train station but who actually uses the word locomotive?
How is “Internet Powerful”?
Second Ad : “Runs Express”
once again the train conotation but Avi noticed some subliminal imagery. Do you see it?
How about now?
We finally got to our destination. And found this painted on the wall near one of the elevators
I’ll fill you in on what lessons I learned today in my next post
Mii-Shirts
If you haven’t noticed, I have a thing for t-shirts. Mr Cloud has these new t-shirts out called “Mii on a Tee” They are quite neat. Too bad the Wii in our office isn’t connected to the web. I’ll have to do something about that.
Installed Aim 6.0 too soon. Try again later
For some reason the new AIM. Keeps giving me an error every time I try to sign in. I’m not annoyed to the point where I will un-install the client altogether but every time I get the error I will be sure to turn on Meebo instead. If anybody can please tell me why this is happening, and besides for obvious reasons, it would be greatly appreciated.
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