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the lead aggregator business model is pretty cool. it works like this, generally: the free service works by enabling the consumer to enter particular information, which is then used to match the customer with the companies that will best meet the customer needs. lead aggregators typically offers savings across categories such as home mortgage, home equity loans
, purchase loans, debt consolidation loans
, credit cards, auto loans, insurance and cell phones.
in our 9 years of marriage, we’ve moved several times. yes, it’s my fault. the phrase “mover and a shaker” not only means moving vertically in your career, but also geographically. in my case, i mostly moved geographically. i’ve done okay, career-wise, but we sure have moved and lived in several places.
we started in utah where i attended undergrad. we then moved to chicago for grad school. we worked there for a while, then we moved to oklahoma for work. then, we moved to nevada to work for amazon; i was based there but i traveled to the other facilities also — at the time, amazon had 13 fulfillment centers. after amazon.com, we moved to corona, california to work for kaiser permanente. we sold our house there a few months ago…
ever since i discovered pixoh, i find myself using it regularly to enhance my images. this is a cool tool from an innovative company.
* Aegrescit medendo - The disease worsens with the treatment. The remedy is worse than the disease
* Sursum corda - Lift up your hearts (to God)
* Credo nos in fluctu eodem esse - I think we’re on the same wavelength
* Malum consilium quod mutari non potest - It’s a bad plan that can’t be changed.
* Cogito ergo doleo - I think therefore I am depressed
* Ut sit magna, tamen certe lenta ira deorum est - The wrath of the gods may be great, but it certainly is slow
* Hic sunt dracones – Here be dragons
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12/20/2006 Update: You might be interested in this ajaxy, draggable timeline of acquisitions completed by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Enjoy!
8/23/2006 Update: I capitalize now — have been for several months. Enough readers gave me crap that I decided to capitalize. Also, the position was originally a full-time, well-paying position. I don’t think I made that clear enough. Google, then, offered me a contractual position and asked me to give up my well-paying, full-time position.
i am a regular reader of The Wall Street Journal. the online version is cool and it’s much easier to read and search than the print version. but, i think the The Wall Street Journal
can add more value to the reader if it hooked-up with findory to personalize the layout and content. findory is very cool.automated personalization used to be the holy grail of search. personalization is an automated way for a system to serve-up or render relevant data or information based on historical, implicit, previous decisions or gestures made by the user. it’s based on a neural-net approach; more specifically, it’s based on unsupervised learning methods.
what is so appealing about products like xango and tahitian noni? their products are commoditized, nasty-tasting, but for some reason or another there is strong demand for these products. any ideas why? i’ve heard that for some network marketing companies (such as these two), the distributor channel is 10x more important than the product. this makes sense: after all, amway products flooded the earth and their products are highly commoditized — c’mon, amway soap is sold all over the world via the network marketing model. because of the size of the distributor channel, regardless of the cheesy and non-value adding product, the company manages to do well. i’ll never understand how products these lame and cheesy manage to do so well in the market.
after several months of living in corporate housing, we finally moved into our new house. we all love it and we feel very blessed. the home-buying process for this one was not pain-free: this is a great, brand new home, that is seriously undervalued –
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