Yahoo!: Two Octobers Apart

Reading Kara Swisher’s two-part interview of Jerry, I can’t help but think back to October 2001 when I joined Yahoo!

Back then, the Y! stock was south of $10 per share, the company had already done two RIFs earlier in the year and ended up doing a third in…

Online Media Valuations: Exhibit Y!

Embedded within The Deal’s piece about how MSFT should sell their OSB (“Online Services Business” aka MSN) is an interesting piece of math interpolation. Citing Cowen and Co. LLC analyst Jim Friedland’s analysis, all of Yahoo! is supposedly valued somewhere between…

RIP Good Times — Careful Cutting Please

Another Sunday, another Raider loss. Got out of town for 24 hours up to Grass Valley — my 5 1/2 year-old is insistent that she should be able to ride a horse without me (or anyone) holding on to the rope along the trail. Ah, the fearlessness of Kindergarteners!

Glass Half Full: Apple and VC Prospects

The financial frenzy seems to have wiped everyone out a bit — not so much financially, but emotionally. Now, I don’t want to jump to the word ‘malaise’ at this point, but it’s kinda got that feeling. So it was good this weekend to see a bit of rationale…

Apple, You’re Killing Me!

No, I’m not pissed at Apple because their stock chart over the last 30 days looks like a Swiss Alps ski slope. I pissed because my holy grail of being able to finally make the full switchover from PC to Mac has been blocked.

Yes, Kill the Performance Review

WSJ’s Journal Report has a piece recommending that bosses get rid of the performance review — at least in it’s current form. That would be great for all involved. (Note: apologies for non WSJ.com subscribers who can’t get to the online version of the story)

TechCrunch Asks a Good UI Question

“Is Search the Best User Interface for Mobile?” …I say YES!

Search is the new “distribution” in the ongoing battle for value between content and distribution. As content development proliferates and becomes theoretically available across…

A Healthy Dose of Perspective

Just back from Yosemite. Yes, hard to believe my first time there. To say the place is amazing is an understatement. The girls and I headed out Friday afternoon, braved two VERY cold nights in the tents at the valley floor, did some hiking, “smoring” around the campfire, took…

Prez Election New Media Dynamics

The new kids on the block for Election ’08 weren’t even around in ’04. My own consumption pattern tonite started with my wife watching (for the third time this weekend) the veep debate re-run on Fox Business Channel. Of course, it was via DirecTV so it was via DVR —…