I love the NYTimes.com design

Designing the website for a major news organization is not the easiest thing to do but it seems that Khoi Vinh, Design Director for the NYTimes.com, has pulled it off. I love reading the New York Times newspaper/print because it's so well laid out and they've got great pictures. Vinh has managed to translate this onto the website as well. The typography is very readable, the content is well laid out, the pictures still look great and you can feel the New York Times brand all over the site. Technorati lists them as the most authoritative media site on the internet -- so I guess that they're doing something right. Major kudos to Khoi Vinh.

Facebook IPO?

All indications are that Zuckerberg is taking Facebook all the way to Wall Street. I'd love to see a Facebook IPO.
froosh is hedging his bets that Facebook will file for an IPO in 08. He also mentions that Facebook has essentially priced itself out of the Mergers and Aquisitions market by leaving $1 billion on the table during their Yahoo negotiations.

Facebook clearly sees itself as/wants to be a Google. They want to be refered to as a tech companany as oppossed to a media
company. This all point to the fact that Zucs might make the company a publicly traded company just like Google.

"The companywide focus is on innovation and engineering, and the commitment to optimizing the user experience. The goal is
not to create a media company." - Mark Zuckerberg http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/115/open_features-hacker-dropout-ceo_3.html

They're posting wierd programming puzzles on their web site in an effort to attract "smart" employees, much akin to Google.

Finally, their financial backers would love for them to go all the way.

"Certainly most of our companies go through liquidity in the public markets ...Public markets seem to want to pay more than
acquirers these days."- Meritech founder, Paul Madera. http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/115/open_features-hacker-dropout-ceo_3.html

Bofore they file for an IPO howerver, they need to find an experienced CEO (unless Zucks is crazy enough to do it himself), and make over $100M in revenue, just like Google.

A successful Facebook IPO might just herald a new era of Internet startup IPOs.

crossrefme is now live!

crossrefme is now live! It's still in Alpha so your comments will be greatly appreciated. Check it out at http://www.crossrefme.net

Announcing crossrefme!

We are currently creating a FREE service that determines the originality of documents. This service scours the millions of pages on the internet to determine if the contents of user submitted documents have already been published on the internet. This service could be used to ;

• determine whether a given text has been correctly referenced
• determine how original a given text is.
• determine if someone has used your text without properly attributing it to you. etc
  

crossrefme is still in the prototype stage. I should begin rolling out a Beta version very soon.