Monday, June 2, 2008
And in Related News: Yahoo Shares Closed Today at $26.40 …
Turns out Jerry Yang isn’t the only Yahoo CEO to reject a buyout offer from Microsoft. His predecessor Terry Semel did as well. According to a complaint unsealed as part of a proposed class-action suit against Yahoo’s directors today, Microsoft offered $40 a share for Yahoo in January 2007.
TechCrunch40: Michael Moritz Interviews Marc Andreessen, David Filo and Chad Hurley
Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski is blogging from TechCrunch40 in San Francisco. Technical difficulties at the conference site prevent him from live-blogging, so he is summarizing with the following report on this keynote panel, dubbed “Humble Beginnings,” in which Sequoia Capital’s Michael Moritz interviews Marc Andreesen (founder Netscape and Opsware, co-founder Ning), David Filo (co-founder Yahoo), and Chad Hurley (co-founder YouTube).
Look at It This Way: Now That Yahoo’s an ‘Ecosystem,’ the EPA Can Finally Declare It a Superfund Site
“Our financial performance is not what we would like to see long-term.” This, from Blake Jorgensen, Yahoo’s chief financial officer who, just six weeks into the job, is already well versed in the company’s fiscal truisms. During Yahoo’s second-quarter earnings call yesterday–his first since being named CFO–Jorgensen trotted out all the company’s hoary earnings-call chestnuts: [...]
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
