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March 26th, 2008

Ouch - Top 9 [Ten] Reasons For Leaving Yahoo!

Elinor Mills answers the question;
Why are people leaving Yahoo?
1. Want to escape before Yahoo gets acquired by Microsoft
2. Lack of innovation at Yahoo
3. Excessive bureaucracy
4. Seeking job stability and expect more layoffs
5. Want to be bigger fish in smaller pond elsewhere
6. Yahoo has lost its focus
7. Volatility of stock price after Microsoft offer
8. Poor management
9. […]

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February 12th, 2008

Jeremy Zawodny Interviews Matt Mullenweg

They speak about;
* Turning 24
* Surprising uses of WordPress
* The next big WordPress release (new features)
* Scaling Automattic and WordPress.com
* bbPress (Automattic’s message board software)
* PHP4 vs. PHP5
[…]

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February 4th, 2008

Whoa! Hey - How Does This Work?

Everyone is calling Microsoft’s takeover bid “hostile.” Despite my not seeing it that way and excited at all the possibilities, I still cannot wrap my head around this;
Another Potential Deal For Yahoo!s Chairman
No, not the obvious - how many items are on Roy Bostock’s plate, this -
“It’s also worth mentioning that Mr. Bostock’s other board […]

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February 1st, 2008

Microsoft Yahoo! Makes Perfect Sense

The proposed merger of Microsoft and Yahoo! makes perfect business sense, to me, but what do I know?
I like the idea of the combination of teams of hard-working, extremely intelligent people. I like the idea of instantly conjuring up major competition to Google. Not that I dislike Google… I believe that competition drives people into […]

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