Watch out GoDaddy

I wish to dispel a myth that is rapidly spreading and must admit that I didn’t verify the facts myself the first few times I heard it. The myth of 99.9% uptime. People are saying that the 0.1% represents 8 whole days of downtime a year. That is not true at all! The truth is:…

If you had purchased 1 share of Google stock the day of the initial public offering (IPO) you would have had a profit of more than $500 as of today (if you sold your shares). The shares are up about 44% for the last 12 months alone. Unbelievable.

Whatever is left of Razorfish after what has to be years of mergers, layoffs, and turnover, has been purchased by a company called Avenue A. So if you’re following the saga of the big guns it’s interesting.

I’ve been reading about the Internet2 project recently and wondered if any BrainFuel readers have used it? Supposedly it is so fast you can transfer an entire DVD in under a minute. The cross-country backbone is 10 gigabits per second.

Gmail is coming soon. Details are sketchy.

Who do you think is the “Master of Buzz?” I’ve come up with a few names below, feel free to write in your own suggestion. Dean Kamen — Ginger and “IT” led to the Segway and huge disappointment. Jason Fried — 37signals generates an unbelievable amount of buzz in their niche and occasionally deliver on…