Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Like a lot of people I have been fascinated by the explosive growth that Pinterest has experienced. At first curiosity, Pinterest is now a full blown phenomena that has jumped from women planning their weddings, or wishing they were planning a wedding, and foodies to mainstream consciousness. Businesses are openly embracing Pinterest and media organizations [...]
Facebook launched a really interesting Questions product a few days ago and after trying it out I have a couple of thoughts on it that I would like to share. Simply put, this service builds on a well documented user behavior exhibited by millions of Facebook users who on a daily basis poll their “friends” [...]
This is really interesting because Gannett is not part of the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium which syndicates Hotjobs content to member newspapers, well over 400 newspapers who are co-branding Hotjobs content. Gannett along with a handful of the other big media companies setup a shared ad network and are angling to take on information services syndication [...]
Kedrosky is right, this is by far the most humorous take on Icahn’s proposed slate of directors: Sake Oil – aka Mark Cuban: a An entrepreneur with a history of creating companies that he then sells for far more than they are worth to sucker corporations. Cuban sold broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7bn at the [...]
I’ve been thinking about that Yahoo post I wrote last week and wish now that I had not written it the way I did. It was a great example of style stomping on substance and I should have wrote that post just for the purpose of venting the frustration I feel with the company and [...]
I had a meeting at Yahoo on Friday afternoon. It was like the other 1,835 meetings I’ve had there over the years, it also won’t produce anything meaningful. What struck me about the meeting was how little energy there is on that campus, it’s a dreadful place to be, even if just briefly. The other [...]
I predicted this from the outset. Yahoo’s board has been negligent in their duties, fiduciary and care, in that they have sat around for 2 months hoping that something better was going to come along or that some miracle would befall the company and performance would rocket skyward. Meanwhile in the absence of any competing [...]
It would be easy to look at the plan Yahoo put out and suggest they are smoking crack. Seriously, if they could grow revenues to the degree that they are projecting in this economy, they are superstars in my book. Of course if they did I’d be inclined to suggest that Jerry Yang is actually [...]
Mike offers a pretty good analysis of the current choice that Yahoo is facing. One thing that really represents the strategic blunder on the part of Yahoo’s Board is that they allowed a full week to pass without substantive comment or marketplace movement and that only reinforced the point that nobody outside of Microsoft wants [...]