… until you find that strength. It matters how you’re going to finish. Incredible.

“Remember there are 3 kinds of people; Those that MAKE it happen, those that WATCH it happen, and those that wonder WHAT happened. These startups are people that MAKE it happen. They should be respected and supported by those of us in the later two categories.” — Don Dodge

Don, well said.

“When we were working on our own startup, back in the 90s, I evolved another trick for partitioning the day. I used to program from dinner till about 3 am every day, because at night no one could interrupt me. Then I’d sleep till about 11 am, and come in and work until dinner on what I called “business stuff.” I never thought of it in these terms, but in effect I had two workdays each day, one on the manager’s schedule and one on the maker’s.”

– Paul Graham, YCombinator

Wow, this is very similar to my schedule these days.

“Music helps me when I’m coding, which is still my priority. When you’re coding, you really have to be in the zone. I’ll listen to a single song, over and over on repeat, like a hundred times.” — Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress and Automattic

Funny, I do the same thing. It makes me more productive.

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Tal: I’m hoping to join a tech company as a programmer or user experience designer, a small startup would be ideal.

bijan: do you have a blog or linkedin account. happy to send your contact info to a few of our portfolio companies. where are you located?

If you’re looking for a startup/any job, and don’t have a LinkedIn account — get one! Also recommend starting a blog if haven’t already.

“Validation” is a short film, a fable about the magic of free parking. It’s about much much more than just parking!

David Beckham getting ready to “Bend It Like Beckham” from the corner:

Overall it was a really good time, and good aggressive soccer on display. Was a bit surprised how many soccer fans exist in New England – it took us an hour to get the car out of the (Gillette) stadium parking lot after the match!

Compete just revised UP Yahoo’s market share number significantly – by 5.3 percentage points.

To put this number in perspective — combined market share of AOL and ASK.com = 4.1%

On Monday we released our May Search Share numbers. As a result of some conversations we were having with Danny Sullivan in parallel we sent over our “rules” we use to mine the search data. Danny threw these up on his post reviewing our data and one savvy reader very quickly identified an issue with our rules. So, long story short, we have fixed our Yahoo! rules (and also reevaluated all the other engine rules in the process). Here’s the updated data based on adjusted rules.

According to the revised market share numbers, a MSFT/Yahoo Search combination would yield:

Yahoo+MSN/Live = 28.5% combined market share (revised)
Yahoo+MSN/Live = 23.9% (old)

However, as Jeremy points out in his post, trend wise not much has changed. Yahoo Search market share is still trending downwards.

I’m sure folks at Microsoft (and Wall Street) have been watching these numbers closely (along with those from comScore, Hitwise, etc). This revision certainly makes Yahoo worth more, but is it enough for Microsoft to change its mind? Only time will tell.

CORRECTED STATS:

OLD STATS:

According to Compete, Google now (since March ‘08) has more “reach” than any other web property in the United States. While Yahoo is ahead on every other metric that Compete reports on, Google is catching up slowly, but steadily.

note: stats do not include Google/Yahoo owned properties that may be hosted on their own domains ex. YouTube, Flickr, etc.

GS is on MSFT as well. Implications?

Here, set against the backdrops of Nairobi city and the beautiful landscape of Uhuru Park (Maasai country), a Kenyan choir sings the Indian national anthem.

The director has chosen the Indian anthem because Kenya is home to a sizeable Indian population (including Sikhs & Jains also) of approximately 2.5 million, most of them descendants of the East African Railways labourers who were brought over by the British during the late 19th and early 20th centuries when the British colonialists ruled Kenya and the rest of the East African region.

There are some strange parallels between this video and Lookery, but I wont get into that now :)

Can’t get enough of it.

Ahh Valleywag. thank you.

q: Take a good hard look at yourself
a: I have.. everyone has.. they love it