Update: Fixed. We’re back. Thank you to everyone at YouTube and Google for fixing this in a timely manner.
I don’t usually blog about our business relationship with YouTube, at least not specifics. But this is out of bizarro world. continue reading...
During the Great Depression, farmers would destroy crops in order to create some kind of floor price for their fruits and vegetables, even though many of their fellow citizens were starving to death. John Steinbeck chronicles this plight in Grapes of Wrath, a book I will pretend to have read (I actually read some of it, but man that book was thick).
Today, despite homelessness being as rampant as ever, some are considering actually demolishing homes in order to create some kind of defense against sliding home prices. As foreclosures skyrocket and empty houses proliferate the marketplace, the specter of unsold, empty homes keeps a lid on recovering real estate prices (in a best case scenario) and accelerates plummeting home values in a worst case scenario. Indeed, according to a recent piece in The Economist: continue reading...
a) my first day at my new company
b) my last day at my old company
c) one of my famous motivational speeches
Office Worker Goes Absolutely Insane - Watch more free videos continue reading...
For the past 2 years, the WatchMojo.com family has tried hard to get leading thinkers, technorati and pillars of the financial community to respect content creators.
But now, after a lot of effort, time and money, I realize that this isn’t simply trying to change an engine at 30,000 feet, in fact, it’s more like trying to make the world stop and spin in the opposite direction. continue reading...
Obviously, this post is in jest, but too bad NYT settled its differences with Harbinger.
Jana Partners is hounding CNET… They own 25% of the outstanding stock. continue reading...
Yahoo!’s message to marketers: “do as we say, not as we do”
Yahoo! will only win in search if continue reading...
You try not to read too much into this, but NYT is being pursued by activist shareholders, then its subsidiary About.com sees its CEO Scott Meyer resign… the company line is that this was amicable and planned.
Maybe. But then why is NYT Digital dean Martin Nisenholtz taking over? continue reading...
Last week we lobbied bankers to pony up $500M so we could buy About.com. Shockingly, we did not get a credit memo. So this week, we’re asking for a bit less. Read on.
Revver’s Fate and The State of Online Video continue reading...
Dare we say it? If 1995-99 marks the period known as the dot com bubble - or Bubble 1.0 - can we say that 2004-08 is Bubble 2.0?
We all agree that the bubble burst with the Nasdaq crashing from its March 2000 high. We all also agree that the nuclear winter of 2001-03 was a great period in hindsight. Tough, but great. In fact, most of the best all time M&A deals and financing deals of all time were done then. continue reading...
