15 minutes of Fame about to Fade for Sanjaya

Ah so the big news of the day, that is right folks Sanjaya has gone home.  I feel for this guy.  I know he currently is riding his 15 minutes but does he really think he has talent?  I mean this is almost a William Huang situation, with minor nuances.  I am sure he will put out some joke album, maybe have a novelty song for a little while before just fading away.

I still dont get the whole StumbleUpon thing with eBay.  I just dont see how this can generate 40 million in revenue for them over any period of time.  Plus Google responds with a similar feature, took them a long time to come up with those dice and probably didn’t cost 40 million to code.

I am a huge Met fan and last night was great, Willis always kills us.  We got on him early for another good win.  Atlanta is doing well I just dont see them being able to win all year, but they have been so good for so long any Met fan, myself included would be nervous.

Myspace news is scheduled to be released today, not up as of right now so I will see what it has going for it later.  I am curious if the bubblegum kids really care about news and if this doesn’t lure and older crowd.  There are both sides of the coin here with opening up to or attracting and older clientele.  No surprise that this will end up being a ugc play in short time.

If anyone has been to Hopman Tennis at Saddlebrook recently tell me how it was, I would love to hear about your experience.  I will be there for a few weeks and will attempt to write daily about my experience.

Well that is all the rambling for me this am

Miss Me?

I have been offline for a few days, got a case of the lazies.  I was up at 5am this am trying to get back on track.  Doing my running and stuff to reach my tennis camp goals.  I am just 3 lbs away from the magic 200.  With two weeks to the day to go (8 work days) I feel confident I will make it.  Played some tennis Sunday with my old doubles partner, and we crushed our opponents.  We played well but not our best, though this tends to be the case when we get a big lead on people.  We are not the best of really laying down the hammer.  Work has been slow, probably because I have not been there in days…haven’t really missed much and will be caught up by the end of tomorrow.  I saw that Google has once again over paid for a company.  I mean really 12 times revenue for Doubleclick?  I see Monster as the next big name to be gobbled up.  Does anyone recognize the similarities between Monster and Symbol??The same CEO maybe?  This would be a nice play for Yahoo or better yet Microsoft, or will the Google boys over pay again?  I saw American Idol last night and really Sanjaya is horrible.  Lets see if he stays on again.  There is part of me that really wants him to win, that would be so funny.  I must say though as a country music fan no one really nailed a good country sound….they all went really pop.

I see StumbleUpon is on the blocks…not really sure why its definitely not best in class but seems to be hopping on the acquisition bandwagon.  The suitors seem to include eBay, AOl and others.  A bad deal all the way around. Update eBay supposedly has a terms sheet in the 40 million range, money well wasted.  I am still a huge fan of Scrapbloglets hope they get some suitors with some pockets to really develop the heck out of that. 

Well thats all I got for now plus I rambled too much for my first day back anyhow

Sanjaya here I come

Most Tuesdays for me are spent on the tennis courts, somewhere I would still rather be most nights, but this Tuesday I have the week off and I will be able to watch a full hour of American Idol.  I have seen alot of the vote off shows but have missed almost all the performance shows.  Not that I feel I am missing much, since other than Carrie Underwood the success of the artists have been mediocre at best after they win the show.  Excuse me I should also include Jennifer Hudson as a person who went on to much better things.  But still, its a fun if not brain sucking show to watch.  This year the hype is not over who is going to win but if a ground swell of jokers can sway the vote.  Heck I am all for it in fact I am sure the ratings arent hurting from this movement at all anyhow.  Long run however it will have its detractors, though small in number and affect I fear.  So will the worst get voted to stay again, I hope so seems to be all worth seeing this year.

Tennis camp is now just three weeks away, and yes I am excited.  Weight down to 204lbs so my gaol seems well within reach.  I am also playing my first league match this Sunday at the NTC.  Cant wait to get started on a good season…where are my 70 degree days??

Salesforce has launch its new apex content and I am curious how good it actually is.  We own the product but have had very little buy in from our user base.  I guess trying to gt creative salespeople to use anything in common is a feat amongst itself.  Salespeople are notoriously proprietary when it comes to information so I hope this new product gains them with more efficiencies making them want to use it.

I do not understand the whole Twitter craze.  I see Scoble loves it but I just dont see it.  I predict it will be a fading fad soon, we will see….ok I rambled enough