Microsoft plus Yahoo! Strategic Assets in Email
So much of the chatter around Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo! revolves around competition with Google in the online advertising market. While that is a huge market, one that Google now dom...
Yahoo! and the future of the Internet
The openness of the Internet is what made Google — and Yahoo! — possible. A good idea that users find useful spreads quickly. Businesses can be created around the idea. Users benefit from constant ...
Why Yahoo should say Yes to MicroSoft
One thing about Jerry Yang that I always have admired is that he cares. He cares about his employees. He cares about his products. He cares about his shareholders. Most of all he cares about build...
Google Reaches Out to Yahoo
Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt called Yahoo Inc. CEO Jerry Yang to offer his company's help in any effort to thwart Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, say people fami...
Update your Twitter, Facebook and other status messages simultaneously
HelloTxt makes it easy to make sure all of your friends know what you're up to all the time, no matter what social networking services they use. Actually, that might be a bit of an exaggeration …
Some Thoughts on the Google Social Graph API
On Friday of last week, brad Fitzpatrick posted an entry on the Google code blog entitled URLs are People, Too where he wrote … I talked to Dewitt Clinton, Kevin Marks and Brad Fitzpatrick about this...
Weblogs, Inc. Co-Founder Brian Alvey To Launch Crowd Fusion
Weblogs, Inc. co-founder and CTO Brian Alvey is preparing to launch his new startup - a content management and hosting system called Crowd Fusion. From what we hear (I haven't been able to speak to A...
Desperately seeking the “killer best way”
Was Facebook's misbegotten launch of its Beacon advertising service a case of youthful overreaching, or did it indicate a much deeper problem for the young company? — The answer to that question may...
Do Super Bowl ads work?
Here's a take from an expert on branding on whether Super Bowl ads work. I actually watch the SuperBowl on Tivo, looking only at the ads. Yes, afraid so. It's UnAmerican. — Super Bowl Branding - ...
Tech issues a no-show at MTV-MySpace candidate event
NEW YORK—Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was the fourth and final presidential candidate to appear at the youth-focused “Closing Arguments” question-and-answer session, co-hosted by ...