Friday, October 17, 2008
BREAKING: Facebook May or May Not Launch Music Service
Looks like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is suffering from a bit of Freudian MySpace Envy. Now that the rival social network has launched what MySpace CEO Chris Wolfe likes to describe as “a mega-music experience,” Facebook is said to be looking for a foothold in the digital music business as well.
Oh, Herb! You Did Remember!
An afternoon with the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Antitrust Subcommittee. What a miserable way to celebrate a special occasion. Yet that’s exactly how Jerry Yang marked his one-year anniversary as CEO of Yahoo.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Nothing Like Changing Your Mindset to Change Your Reality, Eh Yahoo?
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And lest there be any doubt that Yahoo’s exploratory search outsourcing alliance with Google is just that, consider this: Yahoo opposed such a partnership on Jan. 30–the day before Microsoft announced its bid for the company.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Better the Google You Know Than the Microsoft You Don’t
Can a search advertising alliance between Yahoo and Google possibly pass regulatory muster? We may soon find out. Now that investor-tormentor Carl Icahn has filed a proxy slate to unseat Yahoo’s board with the intent, one way or another, to push the company back into merger negotiations with Microsoft, an obviously panicked Yahoo is scrambling to pull together a search-ad deal with Google.
Google Search for Missing Yahoo Revenue Returns $1 Billion
Boy, that was fast. Yahoo’s limited two-week test of Google’s AdSense for Search service has yielded wondrous results. So wondrous, in fact, that we’re only a week into it and “people familiar with the matter” are already telling The Wall Street Journal that the trial may well lead to a broader outsourcing deal between the two companies.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Report: Yahoo, Google Announce Plans to Further Annoy Microsoft
Well this ought to cause a chair-tossing tantrum or two up at Microsoft HQ. This afternoon Yahoo, which has been searching for alternatives to Microsoft’s unsolicited $44.6 billion acquisition offer, said it will explore a search-advertising partnership with its greatest rival–Google.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
L Visa–It’s Everywhere You Want to Be … Especially the U.S. Tech Industry
How do you say “tech’s best and brightest” in Hindi? Because increasingly, India seems to be a prime source for tech-industry talent. In 2006, at least 65,000 H-1B visas were issued. And the number of L visas–which allow multinationals to transfer foreign managers and specialists within a company to U.S. offices–rose to 53,144.
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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.
