http://businessmindhacks.com Thinking about business on another level. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:50:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en News today that billionaire investor and Micro-hoo meddler Carl Icahn was given a seat on Yahoo's board, as well as two additional board seats for people close to him, put to rest fears of a proxy fight at the August 1 Yahoo shareholder meeting. But beyond that, it's anybody's guess as ... http://businessmindhacks.com/post/microhoo-twists-and-turns-but-your-enemies-closer Microsoft's desperate attempts at purchasing all or part of Yahoo in recent months has highlighted the deep and ongoing branding mess that Redmond finds itself in. So bad have things gotten that this fact was acknowledged in no less than MSFT's internal email on how to get its listing Internet division ... http://businessmindhacks.com/post/microsofts-branding-mess-revisited-is-live-really-dead The Micro-hoo saga has been turning uglier in the last few days, if such a thing is possible: The three-way "negotiations" between Carl Icahn, the Yahoo board, and Microsoft turned up another non-starter offer for MSFT to cherry-pick Yahoo's search assets, which in turn led to much finger-pointing, and general acrimony. The ... http://businessmindhacks.com/post/microhoo-post-mortem-post-part-4-the-patient-is-not-quite-dead-yet First off, it's great to see Twitter being up on an iPhone launch day, especially one where all hell has apparently broken loose... [View] ... Gizmodo has already coined a new term for it: The iPocalypse. Cute. So all those 1st gen iPhone ... http://businessmindhacks.com/post/twitter-updates-for-2008-07-11 Anti-"Moving the Free Line" blogger Hank Williams (no, not that Hank Williams) argues in a recent post on his "Why does everything suck?" blog that YouTube is a scourge, has no business model, and that in the pending lawsuit against them over alleged copyright infringements by way of things such as ... http://businessmindhacks.com/post/youtube-vs-viacom-should-youtube-be-torn-apart-by-piranha Apple's second-generation iPhone 3G is set to hit the market Friday to the by now customary camping lines and fanfare, and, more importantly, high sales expectations. And while it's fun to partake in all of the speculation and hand-wringing over specific features (iPhone App store, enterprise IT compatibility, battery-life), the truly ... http://businessmindhacks.com/post/what-the-iphone-has-to-do-with-the-magician The ups and downs of the Micro-hoo saga continue unabated, with renewed Carl Icahn intrigue being the flavor of the week. The noose that irate shareholders have been verbally tying around Jerry Yang's neck seems to be getting tighter all the time. But this time even usually stalwart Micro-hoo cheerleader Michael ... http://businessmindhacks.com/post/microhoo-post-mortem-post-part-3-delusions-of-scale I had put off writing this post for a while, partly because I wanted to take the time and really give Wordpress 2.5 a whirl before bashing it. For several months now I have watched the discussion on the Wordpress.org support forums - especially about the much maligned admin back-end changes, ... http://businessmindhacks.com/post/wordpress-25x-design-issues-why-i-am-staying-with-my-233-renegade MSFT just got the bag handed to them with the Goo-hoo outsourcing deal, now their left holding it... no clear strategy foward, nada... [View] ...get the details of the conference call over at TechCrunch or SAI - http://is.gd/wfO Y! may well have just ... http://businessmindhacks.com/post/twitter-updates-for-2008-06-16 Twittercasting from Ben Mack/Dr. Cialdini interview call... Ben is grilling him pretty good already, that was a brief "interview honeymoon". [View] 1st thing they started with (during the easy part) was that Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet's right hand man, appt'ly has been recommending.. ... http://businessmindhacks.com/post/twitter-updates-for-2008-06-12 OK, this isn't the post I meant to write, but the (pseudo-)developments are simply happening too fast to catch one's breath. Today, Microsoft apparently walked away from a Yahoo deal more thoroughly than they previously had, which in itself makes little sense and proves how much Ballmer and Co. have kept ... http://businessmindhacks.com/post/microhoo-the-post-mortem-post-part-2 News broke today that Microsoft is phasing out its Craigslist competitor attempt "Windows Live Expo". My goodness WLE, we hardly knew (of) you... It's no wonder this site failed so completely, Microsoft's branding is 100% wrong and horrible: Meaningless, confusing, too long/not snappy enough, unmemorable, etc. etc. They don't get branding at ... http://businessmindhacks.com/post/microsofts-branding-mess-claims-another-victim-windows-live-expo