| How We Did It: Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, Co-founders ...
Stewart Butterfield asked Caterina Fake to start a company with him before he asked her to marry him. Butterfield and Fake, both Web design consultants who had been involved with start-ups, started their company in 2002, two weeks after they got back from their honeymoon. That company would morph into the photo-sharing site Flickr, which would quickly become one of the most popular sites on the Web, a cultural phenomenon, and--because of its design, technology, and user-generated content--a defining member of the new generation of Web 2.0 start-ups. Last year, the 37-year-old Fake, the 33-year-old Butterfield, and their seven employees all moved from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Silicon Valley after Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) bought Flickr for a reported $30 million. Fake: We started the company to build a game called Game Neverending, which was really conceived as a context for social interactions.
Bowen outplays Bryant,
Over the past seven seasons, the Spurs' defensive game plan when facing the Los Angeles Lakers has seldom changed. It was always up to Bruce Bowen to find a way to slow down the pop-a-shot scoring machine that is Kobe Bryant. That plan never said anything of Bowen actually outscoring Bryant. But, after he did exactly that in the Spurs' 107-92 victory on Tuesday, nobody from San Antonio is complaining. Bowen, the Spurs' 12th-leading scorer heading into the game, flirted with a career high by scoring 23 points. Bryant, the NBA's leading scorer heading into the game, finished with 18. And the Spurs emerged with their fourth consecutive easy-does-it victory before a sellout crowd of 18,797 at the AT&T Center, after which Bowen admitted the obvious: Out-Bryanting Bryant was never part of the design.
High school football madness in the Fort
If you knew where to go, this weekend football was fantastic in the Fort. Friday, Oct.12, marked the end of high school regular season action and everyone gearing up for the sectionals. Friday night, I wanted to look in on the North Side Redskins who were hosting the Northrop Bruins. The Redskins finally won in a shootout 34-20. North Side jumped out to a 13-0 lead in the first quarter, but the Redskins are erratic, alternating great play with mental lapses and by halftime, the Bruins trailed 20-13. Northrop tied the Game at 20 in the third quarter before settling down and punching in two touchdowns in the fourth to secure the win. I do like North Side's junior quarterback Taylor Howenstine. This kid stays in the pocket and deliver strikes under heavy pressure or can run a design quarterback keeper up the gut, take the pounding and then turn around and play safety on defense.
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