There is now a strong indication that Yahoo will remain independent and hopefully with a Web 2.0 logo. Their Google search outsourcing deal should have been closed back in March in order to avoid the whole Carl Icahn scenario. Loved this part of their agreement:
The agreement also requires Yahoo! to pay a termination fee if [...]
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Yahoo’s Strategy: Scorched earth?[UPDATED]
Idea for Yahoo: forget traditional ad networks, go social!
The problem with Yahoo is that they are playing catchup in Google’s game: search and advertising.
Yahoo is not an algorithm like Google is. They started off as a human directory. If they go back to their roots and start a human ad network(with the help of OpenSocial), they could probably get better results than what [...]
Google Docs goes Offline….in a good way: What took so long?
The Google Docs team is finally announcing that their Office apps now works offline too with the help of Google Gears! This is not revolutionary since Zoho beat them to the punch but let’s face it: Google is bigger.
This is very bad news for Microsoft’s $16 billion/year office business considering it’s free(or $50 for [...]
No more 20% time at Google?
Let’s face it Google is not the startup it once was. 16,805 employees(according to wikipedia) sound more like an enterprise. Enterprises still need a pitch to recruit talented people. Their “20% of your time side project” pitch is a becoming a thing of the past according to some:
Google recruiters are out of touch. This 20% [...]
May-June Developer Conferences
Developers conference seem to pop up everywhere during the next couple of months. A multi-tech developer might want to go the the following hot conferences:
Start off on May 28-29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West for Google’s Web Forward:
Two days full of in-depth breakout sessions on the latest web technologies, Fireside Chats with Google engineering teams, [...]
Google Sky: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
Gotta to hand it to the geeks at Google. They don’t understand women any better than men everywhere. That is why their new Google Sky shows just that. Women are Venus and Men are Mars.
Brought to you by the same guys that think the moon is made of cheese. What is this? Cheese!
For a [...]
Google Ad Manager lauches, OpenX says you should worry!
After the DoubleClick purchase was approved Google did not waste any time to release their new Ad Manager, that allows publishers to sell and manage their own ads:
Directed at addressing the ad management and serving needs of publishers with smaller sales teams, Google Ad Manager is a free, hosted ad and inventory management tool that [...]
The vain side of Web 2.0
True geeks don’t read Variety or Maxim. They turn to Vallewag for their gossip: “interesting” piece on Marrissa Mayer. I actually saw her up close in Google’s Seattle Scalability Conference last year. She spoke about scaling Google for every user(very interesting):
P.S: I am the guy in the red shirt….shit you not….lol
Google Hijacks 404 Pages
After the whole Microsoft-Yahoo debacle I realized(as most people) how powerful Google really is and their insistency that they are still the small guys. A couple of years ago, maybe. Today that is not the case.
The latest shitstorm to hit Mountain View is regarding the Google Toolbar, which replaces 404 pages less than 512k [...]
Valleywag: Yang’s secret plan for a Yahoo comeback
Owen Thomas on Yang’s original turn around plan:
Four months ago, Yang reassigned hundreds of employees to skunkworks projects, with the goal to make Yahoo “relevant.” They’re now working on a few specific projects:
-Rethinking the Yahoo homepage
-Consolidating Yahoo’s plethora of social networks
-Opening up Yahoo to third parties with a consistent platform similar to Facebook’s
-Revamping Yahoo’s network [...]