<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, alex welch]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, alex welch]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/alexwelch http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/alexwelch <![CDATA[Latest to adopt "Tom Sawyer" strategy: Photobucket]]> PhotobucketPhotobucket, the News Corp.-owned photo-sharing site, is introducing an application programming interface, or API, in an effort to catch up with Yahoo's Flickr. One of the benefits, Photobucket CEO Alex Welch implies, will be having independent developers do Photobucket's R&D for it and come up with new ways to line Rupert Murdoch's pocket: "If we see a noncommercial application that's doing something clearly in our commercial terms of service or doing something very creative, it's our responsibility to go out and figure a way to partner." [News.com]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=382625&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Click three times: Chin up, Alex Welch!]]> Wallowing in the muck of Silicon Valley makes everyone homesick from time to time. A reader says they saw one startup chief reach that moment in public.

I witnissed a very emotional moment at the Palo Alto Country Club last night for Churchill Club's Start Up Success where Alex Welch (Photobucket CEO) admitted, "I just wish I was still in Denver coding." He was about to cry (sort of). And [Jotspot founder] Joe Kraus attributed all his success to a book an ex-girlfriend gave him in college.

No word on which book, though it probably wasn't How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

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