Companies Google Has Acquired

by melvinram on August 25, 2010

in Strategy

Google has a reputation for building amazing products and hiring the smartest nerds around. However, you might be surprised to find out that most of the products & services is widely known for were actually companies Google bought and integrated. The graphic below visually shows details of the companies Google has acquired.

Google Acquisitions.

Research by Scores.org

Some of these acquisitions have been very strategically important while others haven’t really been used too well. The real lesson to take away from this post is that you can grow exponentially through acquisition if you do the work to integrate and own the purchased company/products. We’ve made some acquisitions recently and are hard at work integrating. I hope to share them with you soon.

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Dude, Where’s My Hard Drive Space?

by melvinram on August 1, 2010

in Off Topic

For the last 2 weeks, I’ve had some family members over from New Zealand. My uncle had brought his Sony VAIO laptop that was a few years old that had grown painfully slow. The main problem it had was that it had almost no hard drive space left.

The first task was to figure out where all the space had gone. This can be a very time consuming task if you do it manually.

Fortunately, there’s a fantastic free software for windows called WinDirStat that will analyze your hard drive, identify where all your space is being used and show it to you with a breakdown by hard drive.

WinDirStat

To download it, visit http://windirstat.info

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Volcanic Acquires 85ideas & SamK

July 30, 2010

Volcanic has acquired the digital assets of SamK.ca & 85ideas.com. We’re going to continue supporting the users of these themes and will soon be announcing some exciting improvements to the themes, as part of a larger, more exciting announcement. I’d like to welcome Sam, who will be working with us to improve the themes, support [...]

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WordPress 3 & MultiSite Setup Video

June 18, 2010

WordPress 3.0 has just been released and it features a ton of really awesome features. In the video below, I walk through how setup WordPress 3 and enable the multisite mode, which allows you to have multiple WordPress websites powered by one installation. The setup is easy but can be tricky until you see it [...]

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Visual Communication

May 1, 2010
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I was recently interviewed by Marty Lamers of AdvanceMe.com on how visual communication applies to web design and how to make the best use of your marketing efforts directed towards your website. The interview was summarized and turned into jam-packed article you can read online.

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Inspire People With Your WHY

February 25, 2010
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If you’re looking to build a business that can move your market to buy from you and move your people to deliver the best they can deliver, I strongly recommend you watch the Mixergy interview below with Simon Sinek. Simon goes into depth about why inspiring people really gives your business a gigantic advantage over [...]

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Boris Wertz on Mixergy

February 24, 2010
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Click the image below to download my mindmap for the Boris Wertz interview on Mixergy. And be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed to get future mindmaps, marketing tips and more.

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Social Media Tips from AJ Vaynerchuk

February 23, 2010
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Last night I listened to an interview of AJ Vaynerchuk on Mixergy about social media and engaging your fans and customers. It was packed with some good information so I turned it into a visual mind map that I could use to easily review the info in the future. You can download it by clicking [...]

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Movement & Leadership

February 11, 2010
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This 3 minute video shows an interesting interpretation of how a movement might start and evolve.

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IBM, Don’t Ask Stupid Questions

February 7, 2010
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One of the things that bugs me when browsing the Internet is when websites ask stupid questions. Let’s start out by defining what a stupid question is. A question is stupid if it is irrelevant to my immediate task or if you already have the answer to the question. Let’s look at an example: IBM’s [...]

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