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Todd Sawicki (Lookery)

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October 4 — 10:53 PM

Travel Hack: One way to get free wifi

Recently I was in London for Seedcamp and ad-tech on behalf of Lookery.  One of the challenges of traveling to Europe in this Crackberry/iPhone day and age are the INSANE data roaming charges that mobile co’s like ATT Wireless like to charge.  The standard rate is 2c per KB or $20/MB.  Egads!  For perspective, my [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Travel Hack: One way to get free wifi", url...

September 11 — 03:05 PM

One Former Physicist’s Thoughts on the Large Hadron Collider (or Will the Wor...

I have a college buddy from Duke - David Hardtke, who is retired physicist who worked at LBNL and CERN (the guys who built LHC) and now Chief Scientist at SurfCanyon a search startup, who sent us his thoughts on what’s going to happen with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as its now online (though [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "One Former Physicist’s Thoughts on the Large Hadron Collider (or...

September 4 — 10:58 AM

The Fallacy & Conundrum of User Influenced Ad Models

As the online display ad business continues to focus more and more on the idea of user targeting (the idea of targeting the user instead of targeting the site or the context of the page), there is a growing interest and some potential concern around how we’re going to target users.  With some of the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Fallacy & Conundrum of User Influenced Ad Models", url: "http...

August 3 — 11:58 PM

A Little Love for TeachStreet

I’ve been meaning to write about my friend Dave Schappell’s startup TeachStreet since it launched back in April.  With TeachStreet’s launch into it’s second market - Portland today - now seems like the perfect time. First a little background - I met Dave last year at Seattle Ignite summer 2007.  I was introduced by now TeachStreet [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Little Love for TeachStreet...

July 9 — 03:31 PM

Good history of Lookery

Check it out - written by our publisher relations guru Rex Dixon. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Good history of Lookery", url: "http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2008/07/09/good-history-of-my-current-startup-lookery/" });

July 9 — 10:59 AM

Calling BS on Wall Street’s YouTube Revenue Estimates

The recent WSJ article on Google’s difficulties monetizing YouTube has caught a lot of attention with the stat that Google can only sell ads around 4% of the videos on the site (due to copyright concerns).  With roughly a billion videos viewed a day that leaves a lot of unmonetized traffic. At the same time as [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Calling BS on Wall Street’s YouTube Revenue Estimates...

July 9 — 10:33 AM

Reminder: You can find me on Twitter

Like a lot of folks I am spending less time blogging, more time working.  But I’m still offering up pithy thoughts throughout the day on twitter.  I can found at http://www.twitter.com/sawickipedia. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Reminder: You can find me on Twitter", url: "http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2008/07/09/reminder-you-can-find-me-on-twitter/" });

June 30 — 11:12 AM

sad day for justice - landis loses CAS appeal

I totally expected Floyd Landis to lose his anti-doping appeal to the Court for the Arbitration of Sport, but not for the reasons most of you would likely expect.  I am biased to think Landis didn’t use testosterone but from a legal jurispudence perspective that’s irrelevant.  What should matter is that one’s guilt and innocence [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "sad day for justice - landis...

May 13 — 12:21 AM

Online Video - Not Here Yet - How a Big Number isn’t really That Big

Comscore (via Allen Stern at CenterNetwork) reports that 11.5 billion videos were watched online in March in the U.S.  11.5 billion sounds like an awfully big number.  But it’s not.  At least not in terms of web scale.  Comscore itself estimates that total page views online are estimated in the trillions per month.  Heck even [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Online Video - Not Here Yet - How a...

May 9 — 10:49 AM

Cool Link: The Genographic Project - An Atlas of the Human Journey

I heard about the Genographic Project while watching a documentary on some 4,000 year old European mummies found in Eastern China.  The Genographic Project is tracing the lineage and migration of humanity using mitochondrial DNA.  To a geek like me this is some very cool stuff.  They have a cool website that is well worth [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Cool Link: The Genographic Project - An...

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