Rob Go

In search of things new and useful.

Rob Go: 

In search of things new and useful.

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Craigslist Hits Back at eBay – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog This is getting messy and kind of sad. For Ebay, I don’t think this is a fight worth fighting

Rob Go
May 13, 2008 · < 1  min.

Facebook Connect – another step to open social networks I’m looking forward to seeing what this yields. In Charlene’s interview with Ben Ling, he uses Yelp as the prototypical example of what Facebook Connect could do: “I spoke with Ben […]

Rob Go
May 10, 2008 · < 1  min.

The Declining Value Of Redundant News Content On The Web – Publishing 2.0 Been thinking of a little side project that adresses this problem.  Not really a venture idea, but a cool little tool.  Stay tuned.

Rob Go
May 6, 2008 · < 1  min.

Digg Does Data Portability: Is This All We Get? – ReadWriteWeb I know there a lot of skepticism about the Data Portability Project and OpenID. But I for one think that there is something very big brewing here. I’ve already […]

Rob Go
May 2, 2008 · < 1  min.

A friend’s post about Wright My friends Roger and Frank have done a little bit of work to try to wade through all the media sensationalism around Rev Wright’s comments and try to bring some balance into the discussion. I […]

Rob Go
April 30, 2008 · < 1  min.

Kenny Florian vs. Joe Lauzon For those of you who had no idea what I was talking about in my last Twitter, here’s the article. I’m going to try to get one of these guys to do a private training […]

Rob Go
April 3, 2008 · < 1  min.

Monkey Memory Wow, I have a hard time believing that this is real, but if it is, I’m pretty humbled. First, go here to try the game yourself: http://games.lumosity.com/chimp.html Then, watch the chimp kick your butt: http://www.nature.com/nature/newsvideo/news.2007.317.1.mpg

Rob Go
March 25, 2008 · < 1  min.

Innovation Economy: Why Student Entrepreneurs Matter Nice article by Scott Kirsner on student entrepreneurs.  I’ve been blogging about this topic recently, and this is very timely.

Rob Go
March 14, 2008 · < 1  min.

Yahoo! Search Blog: The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem Big news today aside form the Bebo acquisition – Yahoo released more details about its Open Search Platform. I think this is a move that has some promise. At Spark, we are […]

Rob Go
March 13, 2008 · 2  min.

Google Brain Drain Continues Big news at Google as Sheryl Sanberg announced that she is hopping over to take the COO role at Facebook. This is the same movie as the one I saw at Ebay in 2004. Expect to […]

Rob Go
March 4, 2008 · < 1  min.