Microsoft CFO: Yahoo Needs To Hurry Up
Steve Ballmer is perhaps – perhaps – best known for doing monkey dances while covered in sweat. But if anyone thought he was pushing the Yahoo issue alone, Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell has stepped forward to talk about the situation.
Ouch! Microsoft Profits Skydive
When Steve Ballmer threatened to take the Yahoo deal off the table, that could have been with an eye on the company’s woeful financial performance, just announced for their third quarter.
Texting (Probably) Won’t Make Your Kid Dumb
Nothing makes parents and educators more concerned about the youth than the youth’s embracing attitude of new technology; when I was a kid video games were rotting our minds, and these days it’s, well, everything. A new survey from Pew Internet says, as usual, grownups may be overreacting.
Healthy-Looking Baidu Pushes Wikipedia Alternative
Yahoo this, Microsoft that – it’s enough to make you move to China. Or at least look at China-centric news, in which Baidu is generating headlines for both succeeding financially and pushing its own version of Wikipedia.
eBay Lawsuit Over “Neutral” Feedback
Living in a Radically Transparent world is, it seems, not without risk. Apparently a Seattle man was recently sued for $10,000 because he left a “Neutral” rating for an eBay seller from North Carolina.
New Communications Forum Discussion Questions
Today I will be moderating a panel at the New Communications Forum here in Santa Rosa, California which I’m particularly excited about because it’s exactly the kind of juicy broad topic that I think can yield really interesting discussions.
Submit Your RSS Feeds
A little over a year ago, I asked readers to share their RSS feed with me. I did this out of concern that my news sources would consist of nothing but “A-listers” and I’d miss out on the insights of those that wrote fantastic posts, but hadn’t yet found the spotlight. It’s time to do it again!
Not All Traffic Is Created Equal
For a long time there’s been a certain amount of obsession among webmasters about building traffic—any traffic—for websites. But really, especially if you’re location-based, the focus should be on building the right traffic.Of course, search takes center stage in that struggle, but more recently social media sites like Digg.com and BoingBoing have captured the imaginations of traffic-obsessed marketers. Here’s what many of them discover, though: traffic bursts from those sites do little for sales.
eBay’s Lawsuit Against Craigslist
I know you’re getting bored with all the other Internet marketing intrigues out there, so here’s a new one: eBay is suing craigslist. Tantalizing, isn’t it?
Zude, Shopit saves the cheerleader's shirt, and sells it
Several of Hayden Panettiere’s favorite garments will go on sale on Zude in support of the Save The Whales Again foundation.