More than 70 surf industry leaders voted to compile in ranking order, Surfer magazine’s 50 Greatest Surfers of All-Time. The list is made up of surfing’s familiar faces and champions over the decades, including legendary Hawaiian Duke Kahanmoku, an amazing bodyboarder and a man who surfed on anything he could ride. N.B: Mike Stewart ranked #41
- Francois Goube
In Search of the Valley tells the story of three friends' personal journey into the psyche of Silicon Valley, when in September of 2004 they swapped London for California, spending one month visiting and talking to many of the valley's heavyweights and biggest personalities.
- Francois Goube
Marissa Mayer has been elected as one of the women of the Year 2009. She's the VP Search and user experience at Google. (And one othe first employee. She's cute and smart... and billionaire.
- Francois Goube
France had its worst quarter of 2009 and dropped 58% from the same period last year (55 deals), while in Switzerland, investors put $80 million (¬59 million) into seven deals, on par with the previous quarter but still down on a year ago.
- Francois Goube
Nice service, you define what you want to do and where, Get Your Guide tells you what is available. Don't say travel, say experience. That sounds nice marketing. The service is handsome and offers a real added value to the users. I didn't get the business model... Ticketing ? Affiliation ? But that's a great initiative.
- Francois Goube
One of the things Yahoo! has done is look for template structures inside sites so that we can recognize the boiler plate pages and understand what they are doing. And as you can expect, a boiler plate page like a contact us or an about us is not going to be getting a lot of anchor text from the Web and outside of your site. So there is natural targeting of links to your useful content.
- Francois Goube