The industry is a-buzzin' that Terry Semel may leave Yahoo to go run Disney. Here's my prediction: No f'ing way. Or put another way: Only if he's insane. Yahoo's running on all pistons, has significant upside potential, and points toward the future. Disney, well, Disney isn't doing any of those…
The industry is a-buzzin’ that Terry Semel may leave Yahoo to go run Disney. Here’s my prediction: No f’ing way. Or put another way: Only if he’s insane. Yahoo’s running on all pistons, has significant upside potential, and points toward the future. Disney, well, Disney isn’t doing any of those things.
We’ve seen this picture before, it was called “Barry Diller Isn’t Really Serious About the Internet, Is He?”
Well, turns out, he is.
Read MoreThis MetaFilter Item was too good to pass up. A 1954 vision of the home computer, circa 2004. I mean, check out the steering wheel!! STEERING WHEEL! And all the readouts, the dials and gauges. The old dude in the three piece suit.. I love it. This has got to…
This MetaFilter Item was too good to pass up. A 1954 vision of the home computer, circa 2004. I mean, check out the steering wheel!! STEERING WHEEL! And all the readouts, the dials and gauges. The old dude in the three piece suit.. I love it. This has got to be a hoax…
…of another kind. Executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, which I've used in the past, apparently took part of its compensation for a 2001 executive search at Google in options. How they cut this deal I'd like to know, but they got 1.2 million shares at .30 each. They recently…
A hilarious send up of the Ask butler, the patrician tighty-whitey who recently has gone missing from Ask's home page in some kind of PR stunt. Not work safe, and some might argue it's racist, though I imagine that depends who's behind it, and I have no idea who that…
A hilarious send up of the Ask butler, the patrician tighty-whitey who recently has gone missing from Ask’s home page in some kind of PR stunt. Not work safe, and some might argue it’s racist, though I imagine that depends who’s behind it, and I have no idea who that might be (the site says “Mung 2003” and is based off I-am-bored.com).
Hat tip: Beal.
Joe Kraus, a co-founder of Excite, has started a blog, which will focus on lessons learned from a life of entrepreneurship. His first post is here. Joe is speaking at Web 2.0 – introducing his next company, in fact. Welcome to the personal publishing world, Joe!…
It is always a happy thing when someone seems to have found their bliss, and I'm thrilled that seems so with Meg, a co-founder of Blogger who has moved on to new pursuits outside the realm of tech. Good luck, and have fun! (thanks, BB)…
(thanks, BB)
Customer complaints about the Green Google Lava Lamps…. The problem is that the liquid that the Green Lava Googlets float in is a murky, cloudy yellow …as opposed to the Blue Google Lava Lamp, which is crisp and clear and really lets the Blue Lava Googlets flow freely. Meanwhile….the Google…
Customer complaints about the Green Google Lava Lamps….
The problem is that the liquid that the Green Lava Googlets float in is a murky, cloudy yellow
…as opposed to the Blue Google Lava Lamp, which is crisp and clear and really lets the Blue Lava Googlets flow freely.
Meanwhile….the Google Store announces a makeover…
Joi finds someone who has created a belt buckle that displays streaming search queries. Now that's…odd….
Joi finds someone who has created a belt buckle that displays streaming search queries. Now that’s…odd.
Each year at SES, Google throws a party called The Google Dance, named after the "dance" that optimizers and marketers go through when dealing with Google's frequent updates to their index. Anyway, apparently this year they ran our of beer early. Yahoo took the opportunity to poke fun at Google…
Each year at SES, Google throws a party called The Google Dance, named after the “dance” that optimizers and marketers go through when dealing with Google’s frequent updates to their index. Anyway, apparently this year they ran our of beer early. Yahoo took the opportunity to poke fun at Google for that fact. A Yahoo search for “ses party rule #1” yields a special hand coded top result: Never run out of beer.
Thanks to SEORoundtable for the tip.
Former ML analyst Henry Blodget, the high flyer who fell from grace, is finding his voice over at Slate. He's got a barn burner up right now on the Google IPO: If we were acting rationally, we would just decide to invest in Google (or not) after the stock started…
Former ML analyst Henry Blodget, the high flyer who fell from grace, is finding his voice over at Slate. He’s got a barn burner up right now on the Google IPO:
If we were acting rationally, we would just decide to invest in Google (or not) after the stock started trading, when we knew what we could buy it for, rather than now, when we have to guess. Because one goal of the auction is to reduce or eliminate the first-day pop, “winning” the auction won’t likely lead to the instant bonanza that usually makes people salivate about getting IPO shares. But, then again, other forms of entertainment—dinner and a show, say, or a visit to the circus—also waste money and time, and they’re wildly popular….
…There are multiple ways we can lose the Google game, and only one way we can win. We can lose—money, time, and/or potential profits—by:
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