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Here's a former uBeam VP of Engineering (the title the author says they had) who left the same month the author says they left: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul

by muglug 10y ago

Here's a former uBeam VP of Engineering (the title the author says they had) who left the same month the author says they left: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulreynolds6 https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulreynolds6

x0x0 10y ago
maybe don't do this? If he or she wanted to be easily googleable, he or she could have put a name directly on the blog...
- chx 10y ago
  You realize of course his name is on the first page of Google results on "VP engineering" ubeam https://www.google.ca/search?complete=0&&gws_rd=ssl&q=%22VP+Engineering%22+ubeam https://www.google.ca/search?complete=0&&gws_rd=ssl&q=%22VP+... and the only result which is not "we are hiring". Then copypasting firstname lastname ubeam back into Google will spit out that LinkedIn page as the first result. It took longer to type this than do two Google searches.
  - x0x0 10y ago
    I did not realize it was that easily found
    - chx 10y ago
      I literally grew up with web searches having started browsing the (very nascent) web in 1993 with a Mosaic beta. I have tried to disseminate my knowledge in this topic via articles, book chapters and speeches. But really, we are on hacker news. This is quintessential hacking: try, change what you did based on the results, try again, repeat rinse. It will eventually work. Given the speed of Google and scanning ten results, you can fire off a search every few seconds and get to the result real quick. (Or just never if the material is not well searchable. Did you know the best or perhaps the only travel VESA monitor stand is a microphone stand? )
      - x0x0 10y ago
        Actually, what I meant was the link between person X and the blog. No matter that people reading the blog could find the author (that was obvious), but rather that people googling person X didn't necessarily find the blog (until this thread.)
- muglug 10y ago
  If he didn't want to be identified as the author, he probably shouldn't have started a blog whose sole purpose was to discuss uBeam, and his past employment there. There are many other ways of getting your story in the news – there are tons of tech reporters, for example, who would want to write up his story. And then we'd have the benefit of a condensed story, presumably somewhat fact-checked etc.

by muglug 10y ago

x0x0 10y ago

maybe don't do this? If he or she wanted to be easily googleable, he or she could have put a name directly on the blog...

chx 10y ago
You realize of course his name is on the first page of Google results on "VP engineering" ubeam https://www.google.ca/search?complete=0&&gws_rd=ssl&q=%22VP+Engineering%22+ubeam https://www.google.ca/search?complete=0&&gws_rd=ssl&q=%22VP+... and the only result which is not "we are hiring". Then copypasting firstname lastname ubeam back into Google will spit out that LinkedIn page as the first result. It took longer to type this than do two Google searches.
- x0x0 10y ago
  I did not realize it was that easily found
  - chx 10y ago
    I literally grew up with web searches having started browsing the (very nascent) web in 1993 with a Mosaic beta. I have tried to disseminate my knowledge in this topic via articles, book chapters and speeches. But really, we are on hacker news. This is quintessential hacking: try, change what you did based on the results, try again, repeat rinse. It will eventually work. Given the speed of Google and scanning ten results, you can fire off a search every few seconds and get to the result real quick. (Or just never if the material is not well searchable. Did you know the best or perhaps the only travel VESA monitor stand is a microphone stand? )
    - x0x0 10y ago
      Actually, what I meant was the link between person X and the blog. No matter that people reading the blog could find the author (that was obvious), but rather that people googling person X didn't necessarily find the blog (until this thread.)
muglug 10y ago
If he didn't want to be identified as the author, he probably shouldn't have started a blog whose sole purpose was to discuss uBeam, and his past employment there. There are many other ways of getting your story in the news – there are tons of tech reporters, for example, who would want to write up his story. And then we'd have the benefit of a condensed story, presumably somewhat fact-checked etc.