Archive for July, 2007

Going.com secures $5m in second round

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Event-based social net Going.com has raised $5 million in a second-round financing. Backers included Highland Capital Partners and General Catalyst Partners, who participated in the first round. The site, initially called HeyLetsGo.com, is headquartered in Boston and specializes in organizing events in cities such as New York, San Francisco and Chicago, as well as its […]

Google will lose it’s search lead by 2010

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Google used to be the leader in finding a needle in a haystack but they lost that edge about 3 years ago. Face it, their search results are stagnate. Moreso, it’s in their best interest to have lousy search results, Why? because the more ineffective their results, the more visitors click on their paid ads. It was only last year […]

Why soccer will always fail in the US

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Sports is like religion, most people are born into it. It’s a sort of glue that holds together societies and helps define it’s culture. How some sports like Baseball can continue to survive in the USA despite being the most boring sport ever invented, next to cricket, boils down to one factor… Baseball is as American […]

Automobile Electric Problems Winner

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Is it just me and bad luck with my Audi or is there more to it. I mean, after all, my Audi was built on the late Friday afternoon right before the kickoff of Octoberfest and driven into the ocean by the former owner, (while technically, I can’t prove either, I do suspect both accounts). […]