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Geekfishing Blog The Web Office There are two incredible contendors. Hat tip to Techcrunch for them and I'm continuing my logon to 10 web 2.0 sites a day push:Zoho. These are absolutely free utilities and include PowerPoint, Word, Excel equivalents and are free as long as you have less than 10 users in a collaborative environment.Docs.google.com. This puts writely and their spreadsheet program together.Google.com/reader. Wow, an amazing RSS reader, probably the best I've used. Amazing use of AJax Posted by Rich at 11:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Youtube sold for $1.65B to Google Youtube was launched February 2005 and is today 18 months later an Alexa 10 site which is pretty amazing. They were acquired by Google $1.65B and had 100M videos viewed per day and 72M uniques (wow, that's amazing!).Sequoia is going to make a mint from its total $11M investment in it. Youtube by the way had only 67 employees. Posted by Rich at 6:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Photosynth I can't wait for this, I had heard about this from a Microsoft buddy, basically, it takes a set of photos, analyzes them and creates a 3-D space you can walk around in. Very cool!DailyTech - Microsoft Photosynth Poised to Revolutionize Photo Imaging Turning photographs into 3D spaces Posted by Rich at 8:33 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) HP turmoil DailyTech - HP Chairwoman to Step Down in January . The company last week disclosed details that eventually led to a former board member to resign due to the poor way the situation was handled.Federal investigators and Congress began pressuring Dunn to step down yesterday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, House Energy & Commerce committee and the U.S. Attorney also have joined the investigation. The company now faces five inquiries from a number of federal organizations.HP also announced that George Keyworth II resigned from the board of directors. Keyworth acknowledged that he was the confidential source used in a CNET article that came before a probe into media leaks by HP. The decisions came after the board frantically met over the weekend and yesterday.</blockquote Posted by Rich at 8:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) Seattle Web 2.0 Companies Hat tip to Bob who notes John Cooks piece on the 63 (!!!) Web 2.0 companies in Seattle alone which Greg then resorted into Alexa order. The one we all know is Zillow, but the other ones are interesting, like how high Newsvine is and yes I'm about to get logins on all of them and in case you are wondering, the stats are:Of the top ten in Seattle, I already had logons to the eight of them. Of course, two are Ignition companeis, so there is a little cheating there.Of these 63 or so, most have a lower page rank than tongfamily.com, so they are clearly very, very new :-)I did add the Alexa hotlinks too, but haven't figured out an easy way to make this a nice sortable database.Zillow, Alexa rank: 976. Predictive online real estate technology. Rich does it again!43Things/Robot Co-op, Alexa rank: 2233. Social networking through sites such as 43things and 43people.Newsvine, Alexa rank: 3492. Blogging and social media. Reminds me I should call Slade again sometime.Judy's Book, Alexa rank: 7590. Local search and social networking. Our buddies Andy & Co, go guys.Wetpaint, Alexa rank: 10987. Wikis. Some of the founders of Blue Nile do it again. Nice site. We did look at this deal. See meTrumba, Alexa rank: 11146. Online calendars. Good luck Jeremy.Jobster, Alexa rank: 13034. Job search and social networking. Rock'n Roll, this was seeded by IgnitionPayScale, Alexa rank: 14497. Predictive salary technology. Kind of fun and I can see how like Zillow this will be sticky, doesn't work so well for venture capitalists though :-)Mpire, Alexa rank: 14660. Comparison shopping search engine. Go Matt, Dave and Greg!GarageBand.com, Alexa rank: 15247. Social networking music service. The Partovi brothers.Farecast, Alexa rank: 17716. Predictive airfare technology. Madrona deal we looked at. Growing fast, nice serviceFindory, Alexa rank: 19248. Personalized news service. Ex-Amazon guys, some great work they've done.HouseValues/HomePages, Alexa rank: 21720. Online real estate. Listing service, cool UIRedfin, Alexa rank: 22117. Online real estate. Definitely a zillow clone, looked at in seed stageBuddyTV, Alexa rank: 23795. Social networking TV community. I tried it but actually don't get the point.Blue Dot, Alexa rank: 38110. Social networking recommendation service. Delicious clone.Mixxer, Alexa rank: 41301. Mobile music and social networking. Hmm, look slike a ringtone site.Bag Borrow or Steal, Alexa rank: 44630. Luxury goods borrowing service. Michelle looked atPixPo, Alexa rank: 57770. Online video broadcasting. Looked at this deal, it is P2P sharing network.Vizrea, Alexa rank: 58137. Digital media distribution and social networking. Good luck guys!"Broadband Sports" Alexa rank: 62649. Online videoPixPulse, Alexa rank: 63524. Mobile media publishing and social networking.TripHub, Alexa rank: 88059. Online group travel community.Pluggd, Alexa rank: 111033. Podcasting.HomeMovie.com, Alexa rank: 138783Online video.Melodeo, Alexa rank: 186463Podcasting.Musicmobs, Alexa rank: 193467Sharing and discovery online music service.PhoneSherpa, Alexa rank: 276364User generated ringtones and graphics.Snapvine, Alexa rank: 301367Audio comments for blogs and social networking sites.Weedshare, Alexa rank: 302232Online music swapping service.Jookster, Alexa rank: 308432Social search.Cdigix, Alexa rank: 328498Digital media distribution.Super Oyster, Alexa rank: 349830Ticket buying marketplace that allows people to buy out others on an online waiting list.Sampa, Alexa rank: 378389Web site building tools and storage.Inrix, Alexa rank: 389879Real time and predictive traffic technology.Healia, Alexa rank: 404933Personalized health search engine.Curious Office, Alexa rank: 409317Internet incubator.Avvo, Alexa rank: 411395Consumer-oriented online legal service. (Stealth)Cozi, Alexa rank: 486398Digital home technology.GoGoMo, Alexa rank: 490065Digital media distribution and storagePelago, Alexa rank: 561566Mobile social networking. (Stealth)SecondSpace, Alexa rank: 562914Online consumer service. (Stealth)Yodio, Alexa rank: 633350Podcasting.NewsCloud, Alexa rank: 640911Social media.PrestoGifto, Alexa rank: 689970Customized T-shirts, coffee mugs and other products for online merchants.SnapTune, Alexa rank: 741315Online radio service.GridNetworks, Alexa rank: 851439Digital media delivery.Ontela, Alexa rank: 981609Mobile software platform.SmartSheet, Alexa rank: 1359158Collaboration tools for small business owners.Pheromone Trail, Alexa rank: 1415162Social search.Bill Monk, Alexa rank: 1438348Mobile bill paying and online trading service.Positive Motion, Alexa rank: 1484923User-generated flash cards on mobile phones.Peppers and Pollywogs, Alexa rank: 1847159Online party planning service.TextPayMe, Alexa rank: 2311186Mobile bill paying.ImageKind, Alexa rank: 2372741Online art community.GimmeNow.com, Alexa rank: 3609578Online shopping service.SwitchGear, Alexa rank: 4312922Digital home software. (Stealth)Joingle, Alexa rank: 999999999Unknown.DigWorks, Alexa rank: 999999999Digital media. Posted by Rich at 9:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) US University Endowments Wikipedia actually has a list. These are for the fiscal year end 2005, but so pretty recent figures.Rank Institution Endowment1 Harvard University $25.474B2 Yale University $15.225B3 Stanford University $12.205B4 University of Texas System $11.611B5 Princeton University $11.207BEven more amazing if you adjust for the total number of students although not super fair since undergraduates in my experience give way more than graduate school types:Rank Institution Endowment per Student1. Princeton University $1,678,4062. Yale University $1,328,5523. Harvard University $1,278,2834. Grinnell College $893,6665. Baylor College of Medicine $891,825On a returns basis, Bloomberg reports that Yale did the best although everyone had a banner 2005. What's amazing though is that this is the back of a 2004 year that was even better. InstitutionFund Size'05 Return'04 ReturnYale University$15.2 Bln22.3%19.4%Stanford University$12.4 Bln19.5%18.0%Harvard University$25.9 Bln19.2%21.1%University of Notre Dame$4.1 Bln19.1%20.3%University of Michigan$4.9 Bln19.1%20.7%University of Chicago$4.1 Bln18.1%16.6%Duke University$3.8 Bln18.1%18.0%Vanderbilt University$2.6 Bln17.9%16.9%Univ. of Southern California$2.3 Bln17.8%16.9%Columbia University$4.9 Bln17.7%16.9%MIT$6.7 Bln17.6%18.1%Princeton University$11.2 Bln17.0%16.5%In terms of asset allocation, Yale had 25% in hedge funds, 25% in tangible assets like real estate, timber and energy, 17% in private equity and 31% in stocks. The rumble is that a combination of Google plus oil & gas assets really drove returns.Here was the base data:InstitutionFund Size'05 Return'04 ReturnHarvard University$25.9 Bln19.2%21.1%Yale University$15.2 Bln22.3%19.4%Stanford University$12.4 Bln19.5%18.0%University of Texas$11.6 Bln13.6%20.1%Princeton University$11.2 Bln17.0%16.5%MIT$6.7 Bln17.6%18.1%University of California$5.2 Bln10.3%14.7%Texas A&M University$5.0 Bln9.7%21.0%University of Michigan$4.9 Bln19.1%20.7%Columbia University$4.9 Bln17.7%16.9%University of Pennsylvania$4.4 Bln8.5%16.9%Washington Univ. (St. Louis)$4.4 Bln10.0%18.2%Emory University$4.4 Bln6.8%14.6%Northwestern University$4.2 Bln15.1%19.2%University of Notre Dame$4.1 Bln19.1%20.3%University of Chicago$4.1 Bln18.1%16.6%Cornell University$3.9 Bln13.6%16.1%Duke University$3.8 Bln18.1%18.0%Rice University$3.6 Bln13.6%17.2%Dartmouth College$2.7 Bln14.4%18.6%University of Virginia$2.6 Bln14.3%12.7%Vanderbilt University$2.6 Bln17.9%16.9%Univ. of Southern California$2.3 Bln17.8%16.9%Johns Hopkins University$2.0 Bln9.6%15.3%Brown University$1.9 Bln13.3%16.3% Posted by Rich at 3:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Handset Profitability Kind of interesting to look at the profitability of the big handset manufacturers which are in order Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson. All of these shipped more than 50M units last year.For Nokia there results are and they even have a great spreadsheetEuro 1000s2Q06Revenues5,875Gross Profit1,73830%R&D3155.4%S&M4127%G&A190.3%Other13Operating Income97916.7%For Motorola for three months ended April 1:1Q061Q05Revenue$6400$414445%Operating Income$702$44011-10%For Samsung and a nice three year summary for 2005-2004 in their Summaryin Billions of Won200520042003Revenue209142072915303Operating Income248030972817Operating Margin11.9%14.9%18.4%For Sony Ericsson shows similar margins:In Euro 000s20052004Revenue72686525EBIT486514EBIT Margin6.6%7.9% Posted by Rich at 10:22 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Youtube on ipod Just these words alone should boost our alexa ranking - here's how to get youtube videos on your ipod - good idea since getting any video on mine has redefined the word "simple" click to wired mag and scroll down. Posted by at 1:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Edit... Mail... Admin... 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