The Steinhorn Stare

Okay, now it’s true…

Just to clarify for everyone who has asked, Tellme was not purchased by Microsoft last week.
On Monday, TechCrunch writer Michael Arrington published a blog post titled, “Microsoft Has Acquired Tellme,” laying out the details of a Microsoft purchase of the company I recently started working for. After getting picked up by Om […]

I know my blog is read by a number of current and former eBay folks, so I wanted to pass this on…
Former eBayer Shri Mahesh has set up a wiki to trackeBay employees (current and former) and their blogs…
If you’re a current or former eBay employee and you have a blog you’d like others […]

Okay, once final product announcement from Tellme this week…
I already mentioned our Tellme by Text (business search via SMS) and Tellme by Mobile (business search, restaurant reviews, etc by downloaded mobile app)…but what if you like the interface provided by 411 directory assistance, you just don’t like the fees?
Now there’s Tellme by Voice, a business […]

I wrote about Tellme by Mobile in my last post, and also mentioned our Tellme by Text service. Well, Tellme by Text has a really cool new feature - maps to your cell phone!
Tellme by Text allows you to SMS a business search query to TELLM (83556) from any wireless device that supports SMS […]

I’m coming out of blog retirement to plug a really cool new product from Tellme (the company I work for)…
Have you ever been away from your computer, but want to get business info, phone numbers, maps, driving directions, etc? You could use one of the available SMS services (including Tellme’s “Tellme by Text“– just […]

It’s been a couple weeks since I started my new gig at Tellme, and as you may have noticed, I’ve been pretty busy (too busy to write much here)…
On the bright side, I did get a chance to go out sailing with Tellme’s CEO, Mike McCue earlier in the week. He has a beautiful, […]

If you like to shop on eBay and you prefer getting your daily (or hourly) dose of information via your RSS reader, today is the day for you…
Today, eBay releases RSS for search results. Whenever you do a search on eBay, you will find a little orange RSS button () at the bottom of […]

I don’t normally just post links, but no time for commentary on this busy day…
This is a great example of how online companies can (and should!) use technology to better understand their customer’s usage patterns and needs…in the end, it makes your customers more happy and makes you more money…

I have to give Amazon some credit…they aren’t just sitting back and waiting for the future to come to them…
First there was Alexa for developers, Amazon’s offering of a pay-per-use web services interface to their Alexa search index. Not unique…not revolutionary…but certainly an innovative step in the direction of web evolution. Opening Alexa […]