mohit | Shared With: Everyone - 22 days ago | microsoft, yahoo, google, technology, search
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - 23 days ago | yahoo, news, technology, jeremy zawodny
Jeremy Zawodny is among the many who've announced they're leaving Yahoo.
Quoted: I won't at all be surprised if some people think this is related to Microsoft or Carl Ichan and the uncertainty surrounding Yahoo's future. The reality is that there's nothing pushing me out the door at Yahoo. The reason I'm leaving is that something very compelling has come along to lure me away. Despite what the current press sentiment might be, Jerry and David have built a remarkable company.
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 02 2008 | todo, design, yahoo, web development
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - May 31 2008 | microsoft, yahoo, google, search, technology
It does feel like Microsoft's main gameplan in the consumer Web space over the last couple years has been to play catchup.
Quoted: So let's assume that Google has won at search, or close enough to make no difference. Is Microsoft better off trying to reimplement cat and ls, or trying to figure out what's still missing from the Internet Operating System? While they are locked in penis envy, all the really cute girls are going out with startups :-)
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mohit | Shared With: Everyone - May 12 2008 | web 2.0, startups, yahoo, bdmentions, faves
ReFave of a nice mention.
Quoted: Michael [Arrington] appears extra frustrated because like most of us he wants Delicious to succeed. As a matter of fact, he named Delicious one of the Web Apps you can't live without in 2006, but then dumped Delicious in 2007 for BlueDot (Now Faves.com) because they were surpassed when it came to features.
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While Yahoo has been asleep at the wheel, countless new social bookmarking services have pulled ahead of the once king of online favorites. The best of the bunch being Magnolia and Faves.
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - May 04 2008 | microsoft, chess, yahoo, news, technology, checkmate
Quoted: A few days ago I had pointed out that Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo was a checkmate kind of a move: Yahoo couldn’t win from this attack. Today, by pulling its bid for the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based search company, Microsoft proved that again, and showed why it is still the Prince Machiavelli of Technology. Here is why
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 13 2008 | investment club, investing, google, yahoo, finance
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 19 2008 | yahoo, business, technology, microsoft, investment club, todo
Quoted: Today, Yahoo filed a presentation detailing its three-year financial plan that management gave to its board of directors in December, before Microsoft’s unsolicited bid. These rosy projections should be read in the context of that ongoing battle and Yahoo’s attempt to get a better price out of Microsoft. But this presentation also sheds some light on where exactly Yahoo sees its strengths. After going through it, vote what you think Yahoo’s board should do.
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 07 2008 | microsoft, yahoo, books, Innovator's Dilemma, business
I agree. Microsoft's desire/need to sustain Windows and Office has kept it from fully embracing the power of the Internet.
Quoted: Blodgett is exactly right. As he argues, Microsoft is so focused on sustaining its massively successful core products – Windows and Office – that its approach to the Internet is inherently shackled. It has never fully embraced the dynamic power of the Internet to unleash transformative new business models. Instead, it has used the Internet in a sustaining fashion to supplement its core properties (Internet-based help for Microsoft Word, anyone?), while clinging to web 1.0 platforms like Hotmail.
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 26 2008 | microsoft, advertising, google, yahoo, technology, investment clubDon't fully understand this.
Quoted: Most people think that the search and advertising markets are both likely to be extremely profitable for the top two players if there’s a duopoly; if on the other hand it settles down as a triopoly, then the margins will get squeezed and #2 and #3 will have a hard tie doing better than break-even. Right now, in the US, Google’s #1 in both, with Yahoo! #2 and Microsoft #3.
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