CNet has published a Top 10 Girl Geeks piece that has provoked much interest and criticism (Lisa Simpson and … Paris Hilton?; no Esther Dyson; etc.?), and seems to have been written more to provoke hot-tempered discussion than for any other reason. Slashdot comments (NSFW) vary from your garden variety geek-boy stuff, to suggestions for […]

Paul Kedrosky has a fascinating post up about Flickr’s use of metadata to demonstrate the popularity of cameras used by their users. Freshbooks, a company that my mesh partner Mike McDerment co-founded, did the same thing a while back. With business moving to the web and data increasingly available for this kind of analysis, can […]

I was more than a little surprised to see a Techmeme sponsored post – a Tabblo post defending Yahoo! that I’d spotted in the side column over the weekend – appear in my feed today. My first thought was that Gabe had perhaps decided to mix sponsored posts into the feed, but that seemed very […]

– and, well, doesn’t want to be (just) SVP any longer – I suspect this ‘manifesto’ is at least partly an announcement that he’s on he way up, or he’s on the way out, and this memo, released into the wild in what I, like my friend Mathew and also Paul Kedrosky, suspect was a pretty deliberate move, strikes me as simply the first overt step on succession moves at Yahoo!Written in the iambic pentameter of internal memo corporatespeak, the memo contains the principal motifs of the large-company-trying-to-turn-around motivational speech:We’re great and things are goodBut they’re not as good as they should be and we face many challengesIt’s no one’s fault – it’s just the way things are nowWe lack visionOur organizational structure needs to changeMany of you need to leaveNone of this is remarkable or surprising. Most large companies that falter say exactly the same thing, and there is an established cottage industry in motivational euphemisms for “getting back to basics”…. has perhaps been the only person at this particular cocktail party who didn’t know it had toilet paper stuck to its shoe.In any event, there’s a bumper year ahead for Yahoo!’s M&A lawyers…. The tea leaf readers, trying to divine intention from Yahoo!’s many disparate moves, were undoubtedly banging their heads against the wall with each indecipherable acquisition.