Recent "Global Nerdy" Stories

What do you get when a white enterprise research guy in Manhattan teams up with an Asian programmer and tech evangelist in Toronto? Global Nerdy, the Rush Hour of tech blogs!

Here’s what we’ve written about recently:

• VCs Don’t Want to Pay for Things, Either: Freemium: new word, but a tried-and-true concept.
• Night of the Living Dead Languages: Why languages no sane programmer would touch refuse to die.
• Internet Explorer 7 Released: Available for download right now, if you like living on the bleeding edge.
• Google 3Q Profits Surge 92%: In which George explains Google’s “secret sauce” that lets them rocket past AOL, MSN and Yahoo!.
• Gartner to Jobs: License Mac OS X to Dell: Why not? Aside from the fact that Apple and Dell have used stoners in their ads, there’s really no match.
• Google’s New Adwords Gizmo: Website Optimizer: “Website Optimizer” may be a cumbersome name, but not as cumbersome as “AmIGoingToGetConversionsOrNot.com”.