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Friday, August 1, 2008
Sky’s limit at EarthLink
After some recent business setbacks and failures, Sky Dayton, the 1990s technology wunderkind who founded Atlanta-based EarthLink Inc., is leaving the company’s board of directors, EarthLink just announced.
Dayton, a California millionaire, hasn’t really been too involved with the day-to-day business of EarthLink for some time, of course.
But it was Dayton who who created Helio, the cell phone company forged in a deal between EarthLink and Korea’s SK Telecom that fizzled in June. Helio announced in June it was selling out to Virgin Mobile for a fraction of what the two companies had invested in the venture.
Dayton also was a big supporter of EarthLink’s push into municipal wireless Internet access, another venture that flopped.
None of that takes away from the roaring success Dayton had in 1994 when he started EarthLink back when he was 23 years old and dial-up Internet access was still booming. EarthLink merged with Atlanta-based Internet service provider MindSpring in 1999.
In a statement, Dayton indicated he might try another startup.
“After 14 years, I believe it is the right time for me to return full time to my entrepreneurial roots,” he said.
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How do you say “search” in Maori?
All you Maori warriors no longer have to worry about being left behind in the Internet age.
Google Inc. proudly announced on its corporate blog today that it has launched its latest localized home page and search interface in the official (albeit not exactly widely spoken) language of New Zealand.
The page is part of Google’s initiative to make its search engine — and its advertisements, of course — accessible to people who speak the world’s 40 most common languages.
At least when I checked, the new Google in Maori really doesn’t look a lot different than Google in English. But it may be helpful when folks down under in New Zealand want to view sites that contain Maori language.
And, hey, it’s always fun to see a picture of a Maori warrior like the guy on the right.