Posted by randfish

Just the facts ma'am... (or rather in this case pure speculation from a night of heavy drinking in cold weather):

• Heard the rumor several times that Google's search quality team has undercover link buyers working for them (I only find it hard to believe because it seems like they could put that manpower to better uses)
• David Temple - I finally got to meet him in person and he is amazing. Smart funny genuine personable... I'm thrilled to go to China with him next spring.
• Todd Malicoat has a big crush on Lisa Barone (who's as charming in person as she is on the blog). He's trying to hide it even from himself but it's tough going (oh man am I going to take heat for writing this tomorrow).
• I met someone who used to employ SEO Fangirl... Her identity should be revealed in the next couple days.
• Kim Krause and her husband Eric just celebrated their 2nd anniversary on the plane to Chicago - a toast to them both!
• Danny's going to be announcing something on SELand very soon that I'm extermely excited about... something that will include a party.
• Vanessa Fox is wicked fast - she made a mad dash to grab Rebecca's bag off our plane from Seattle to Chicago at the end of the flight. I commented to Rebecca - "wow she's not just good at sitemaps."
• DaveN needs to do a better job of optimizing his beer drinking... my right ear suffers the consequences :)
• Eveyone's worried about Microsoft - Vista is getting bashed Live is taking heat even Xbox is getting eclipsed by the two new consoles. Since they're in my backyard I feel a duty to stand up for them - I'm trying to get an interview with Eytan Seidman in the next few weeks.
• Yahoo! is hosting a party for everybody tomorrow to help make up for their closed invite Pubcon backlash - party thread from Joe Morin here.

More to come...

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