Archive | January, 2008

Blake Jorgensen, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Tim Cadogan of Yahoo! to Present at Thomas Weisel Partners Conference

by on January 30, 2008 in Yahoo! (YHOO)

Yahoo! to present at the Thomas Weisel Partners Technology, Telecom, and Internet Conference Blake Jorgensen, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Tim Cadogan, SVP, Search, Listings, and Display Marketplaces will present at the Thomas Weisel Partners Technology, Telecom, and Internet Conference. The presentation will take place on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 3:30pm ET [...]

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The Yahoo! Rumor That Just Won’t Go Away…

by on January 30, 2008 in Yahoo! (YHOO)

So Michael Arrington got put on the spot on Fox Business News and the age old Microsoft/Yahoo! merger rumor resurfaced. It’s almost as frequent as a Rick Roll YouTube video link. I’ve written before about how this Microsoft rumor, which dates back to the days of Terry Semel, seems less likely to me than other [...]

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Plaxo 3.0 Problems

by on January 23, 2008 in Customer Experience

I was prompted to install this during my last use of Outlook. I’m extremely sorry that I did. Without my authorization, it downloaded my Linkedin profiles apparently through it’s new integration and created hundreds of duplicate entries with different email addresses. (Most people don’t have the same email address in Linkedin as they do at [...]

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TECH cocktail Chicago 7

TECH cocktail Chicago 7

by on January 23, 2008 in Chicago, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

No other words are necessary, you should know the drill by now. RSVP now.

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del.icio.us Integrated Into Yahoo! Search Results (Finally)

by on January 19, 2008 in Change Management, Social Media, Yahoo! (YHOO)

Michael Arrington has broken this extremely important story of Yahoo! integrating del.icio.us results into the search engine results on a test basis. As many of you might recall, founder Joshua Schachter (who has not yet bookmarked my blog in del.icio.us) sold del.icio.us to Yahoo! in December, 2005 making Fred Wilson a happy man. Many people [...]

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Jim Lanzone Leaves Ask to Join Redpoint Ventures as Entrepreneur in Residence

by on January 12, 2008 in Ask, Venture Capital

Rustybrick reports that Jim Safka has taken over as CEO of Ask.com and that Jim Lanzone has joined Redpoint Ventures as an entrepreneur in residence. Some point to the recent increase traffic at ask.com traffic and ask why? It’s hard to tell exactly what terms Jim left under, nevertheless it’s great to see that he [...]

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How To Do YouTube Video View Optimization Part 1

by on January 9, 2008 in Branding/Buzz/Viral, Social Media

Looking around the net this political season, it’s amazing to see the number of conversations I’m seeing that discuss YouTube Video View Optimization in non-SEO communities. It’s a unique ecosystem with distinctly different rules and people figuring out how to optimize the current system. It would be impossible to summarize all of the things I’ve [...]

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Yahoo! Launches Go 3.0 Beta, New Open Mobile Widget Platform, and Mobile Homepage

by on January 7, 2008 in Mobile / Cell / LBS / SMS, Mobile Search Marketing, Yahoo! (YHOO)

Yahoo! Go has several exciting announcements that are launching today: · Yahoo! Go 3.0 beta: o New features include: § Enhanced user interface, optimized for the mobile phone § Improved performance § For the first time, consumers will have access to third-party widgets from leading publishers through Yahoo! Go. o Yahoo! Go 3.0 also includes [...]

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