Here is the letter that Jerry Yang sent to stockholders Dear Fellow Stockholder: The recently-formed Carl Icahn-Microsoft alliance continues to make misleading statements about their plans for Yahoo!. Your Board of Directors believes strongly that the Icahn-Microsoft agenda -as presented to us jointly last week
Those of you not familiar with the Monty Hall Problem, it goes a little something like this: Let’s say you are on a game show and you are presented with 3 doors. Behind the first door is a car and behind the other 2 doors
Is giving your customers too much choice really a bad thing? Barry Schwartz a renowned psychologist explores the paradox of choice in this interesting video from the TED conference. How much choice are you giving your customers? I would love to hear your feeback/thoughts on
Yes, that’s correct folks. The physical book destroyer is making a return this holiday season with part deuce. Actually, 2 new models are coming out, one is going to be smaller than the original and will be a bit more user friendly, the second model
Several of today’s popular brands have become “super” brands. That is, their branding has gone beyond just what their product offers and the brand has actually become a part of our everyday life or our everyday speak. For example: If you can’t find something just
Scarcity is an interesting and powerful concept. Check out this post from Seth Godin’s blog regarding scarcity. I do think that there is line you should draw on exactly how scarce your product is. The Apple Iphone is a bit scarce, but at the same
According to a recent report by Petsky and Prunier (an investment bank), VCs and investors have dropped around in 1.5 billion dollars into social networks and $760 million in ad networks. Not bad eh? The hottest space within social media appears to be user generated
A lot of conversations are taking place on line via twitter, facebook, blogs, seismic, etc. With the inherent addition of conversation tools and the addition of conversation starters, the value added to the end user slowly begins to dwindle. The amount of noise begins to
Has anyone else noticed a huge spike in useless facebook apps? I logged into facebook today and had several “notifications” telling me someone is challenging me to a quiz, someone else wants to cure facebook, and someone else wants to name their first born child
Mahalo helmsman Jason Calacanis announced yesterday that he is going to give up the blogging game cold turkey. That’s right, he’s throwing in the towel. According to Jason Calacanis: “It’s with a heavy heart, and much consideration, that today I would like to announce my
