Sleeping in a Treehouse

by Dennis January 18, 2013

Feel free to Tweet this experience: Tweet Since I joined Airbnb a couple of weeks ago, I have been steadily checking the boxes on my on boarding process. The final on boarding action I need to check off my list, is to actually book and stay with an Airbnb host in their property. So I made a [...]

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Carte Blanche – YouTube Auto Generated Pages #FTW

by Dennis January 3, 2013

(Updated Jan-3-2013; since I started writing this post, a lot has changed. I initially began to write about the Auto-generated pages by YouTube back in Oct 2012. Only being able to finalize the post after the FTC closed the negotiations with Google on their behavior) For an SEO workshop at First Round Capital, I collected a number [...]

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The Fast Food of Technology News – Headline Journalism

by Dennis January 2, 2013

I won’t deny it, I’m a Techmeme junky. Every morning, and during the day, I check what are the latest headlines in the world of Tech News. And although I stopped reading Techcrunch by going to the Techcrunch homepage and picking a story, I end up a lot of times on an article on Techcrunch, [...]

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Happy New Year 2013

by Dennis January 1, 2013

And with that…it is 2013. Happy New Year to everybody, and all best wishes.

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Pied a Terre Shoe Ads

by Dennis December 19, 2012

While doing some research for KW/Page rankings for Airbnb, I came across an un-related paid search advertisement by my former employer, eBay. It’s kind of funny that I used to know how keywords would flow into the paid search systems for those targeted ads, and sometimes completely unrelated ads could have massive Return on Investment. [...]

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Boris & Patrick Visit Airbnb

by Dennis December 18, 2012

Almost 7 years ago, I moved to San Francisco while working at eBay. The first summer living in the US, I hosted a BBQ for a group of Dutch Internet entrepreneurs at my house who were visiting the Valley. Part of that group Dutch Internet entrepreneurs were Boris Veldhuijzen Van Zanten & Patrick de Laive. [...]

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What’s for Dinner; Job Interview

by Dennis December 18, 2012

The way Airbnb is taking care of its employees is amazing. What is even more fun, is that I just participated in the best interviewing of a candidate ever. How about you’re being asked to be part of the last round of interviews of a candidate for the position of Sous Chef at Airbnb, and [...]

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Hellenic Heritage at Folsom & Third street in San Francisco

by Dennis December 17, 2012

Last Sunday I learned there is a specific Neighborhood in San Francisco with a big Hellenic Heritage. It’s a part of SOMA where Greek immigrants settled in the early 1900′s. I learned this by paying attention to the signs and plagues placed on the sides of the streets to remind people what has happened in the past. [...]

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Another Day, Another Drama in SEO Land

by Dennis December 12, 2012

Sometimes you wonder if we, SEO’s, should all come together and just start ignoring these kind of link bait posts. I’m talking about the article from Paul Boag at Smashing Magazine today with the title: The Inconvenient Truth about SEO. To avoid playing into Paul’s cards, I’m not linking to his article, but instead linking to the [...]

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Google Dance 2007 T-Shirt

by Dennis December 9, 2012

Back in 2007, at the SES San Jose, I picked up the T-Shirt I was wearing today. I believe it must have been the last Google Dance at a large search marketing conference. The SES in San Jose in 2007 has gone down in history as the point Google brought down the hammer on Paid [...]

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