When I started my keynote presentation at eMetrics Santa Barbara 2006, I said “there was a time when I was not at Yahoo!, and there will be a time when I’m no longer at Yahoo!.” That day has come .. it’s my last day at Yahoo!.
Lest anyone think this means I’m down on the [...]
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The Last Yodel
March 5th, 2010 Comments Off
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Graphing Yahoo! News Elections Traffic
November 13th, 2008 No Comments
Just a quick graph that shows daily page views to Yahoo! News. The green line shows the week before the US elections, while the week of the elections is in blue.
This comes from our internal numbers; for “competitive reasons” I removed the legend indicating volume — but you can see the site was much busier [...]
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Yahoo! is hiring (really!)
April 22nd, 2008 No Comments
What with all the news about Yahoo! laying off people, you could be forgiven for thinking that the company isn’t hiring. But in fact, it is. The company “de-invested” in several areas, but is increasing investment in others. Even the data team changed a number of projects, which impacted some people. But Y! is hiring, [...]
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Yahoo! acquires IndexTools
April 9th, 2008 2 Comments
Today Yahoo! and IndexTools announced that Yahoo! is acquiring IndexTools. Here is the official press release.
I’m really jazzed about it. IndexTools is a great group that’s been laser focused on the stuff that customers care about. They have a very practical attitude towards their products. Because they started in 2000, they learned [...]
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US Purplebacks?
September 21st, 2007 No Comments
So I see the U.S. Government is showing off the new currency ..
Hey, they are using Yahoo! purple for the number. Coincidence? I’m just asking…
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Notes on Emetrics Summit San Francisco 2007
May 15th, 2007 7 Comments
Another Emetrics has come and gone. Many of the Summit’s highlights have been presented in other blogs, but I did want to point out a few personal observations:
Big News and Rumors: Eric Peterson strikes out on his own, a new Google Analytics, and WebSideStory changes its name to Visual Sciences. But the biggest [...]
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AOL’s Beta Home Page Looks Familiar
April 28th, 2007 1 Comment
I heard about this at work yesterday but hadn’t looked at it until this morning.
Yahoo! home page:
The beta version of AOL’s home page:
Classic. The AOL designers must be proud!
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Zod 2008
October 28th, 2005 No Comments
The Yahoo! CTO? No. Zod2008.com
Backgrounder, etc on generalzod.net
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Easy Exits … Again?
October 10th, 2005 1 Comment
The problem with some of the “new Web” applications isn’t the application itself but the business model. Build an incremental feature, create some buzz in the echo chamber, and then sit back and wait for GAMEY (Google / AOL / Microsoft / eBay / Yahoo) to buy your company.
I suspect we all have some [...]
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