Depends on how you frame it

Kottke on the failed Microsoft/Yahoo deal:
On Jan 31, the day before Microsoft offered $31/share for Yahoo, YHOO was at $19.18/share (market cap: $26.4 billion) and MSFT was at $32.60/share (market cap: $303.6 billion). At the close of trading today, YHOO closed at $24.37/share (market cap: $33.5 billion) and MSFT was at $29.08/share (market cap: $270.8 [...]

Quote of the Day

I spend quite a bit of time talking about leading-edge Web stuff to mainstream Enterprise types. I have a well-polished explanation for the rise of PHP and Rails and so on: Time To Market. Here’s the sound-bite: “If you and I have the same good idea for a community-based Web site on the same day, [...]

Two reasons not to get a Macbook Air

1. The good folks at the TSA (please don’t put me on a watch list) might not believe your Air is actually a computer and the ensuing debate might cause you to miss your flight.
2. Its so thin and light that you could accidently throw it out with the newspapers, even if you are [...]

The Good Michael Arrington

I generally find TechCrunch to be a worthwhile read, though it frequently lacks the right amount of skepticism when evaluating startups (come back Uncov, we need you! I need you!). Having said that, when Michael Arrington’s on, he’s on. His destruction of new startup YouNoodle yesterday is why I continue to read. YouNoodle claims it [...]

Microsoft offers $44.6 billion for Yahoo

The big news in the tech/business world today is Microsoft’s unsolicited $44.6 billion dollar offer to buy Yahoo. I wouldnt really be affected by the merger directly. I don’t really use any of Yahoo’s or Microsoft’s products. I’m starting to use Flickr and I use Yahoo’s fantasy sports (by far the best) for my leagues [...]

Sick monitor

I’m only some what into “techie” things but this monitor, available in the second half of ‘08 from Alienware, is pretty sick. (fist-bump Jess3)
Photo via Kotaku

2 billionth Flickr photo

The photo above is the 2 billionth photo to be uploaded to Flickr. That’s a lot of photos. Via TechCrunch, who also note as a comparison that there are 4.1 billion photos on Facebook. That’s also a lot of photos.

“Although no one keeps an official count of Google millionaires, it is estimated that 1,000 people each have more than $5 million worth of Google shares from stock grants and stock options”. (ht Techmeme)

A story about Google Earth

A fictional account of the potential powers of Google Earth (via the one and only Joe)

Horny computer users are idiots

How’s that for an eye-catching title? Anyway its true, particularly when you consider this news:
Fake emails claiming to offer nude photographs of Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman, Milla Jovovich and pixelated videogame babe Lara Croft are behind 80 per cent of computer viruses last month, according to expert
Come on now people. Don’t open attachments [...]

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