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At last! Relief from Facebook babies
No question Facebook is becoming infantile. Far too many updates are pictures of cute (and not so cute) babies. I have nothing against babies or baby pictures but I am single, and my interests run elsewhere. Babies have never figured … Continue reading
Yahoo’s $100 million CEO and her 9 principles of innovation
Marissa Meyer has just been hired to head beleaguered Yahoo. She was the first female engineer at Google and at Yahoo will earn at least 100 million dollars over five years. Not bad for a 37-year-old! She has 9 principles … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Internet, Technology
Tagged Change, internet, leadership, marissa meyer, yahoo
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Facebook IPO: the headlines after the hype
The headlines after Facebook’s stock market debut make for interesting reading. Reuters captured the mood of the media with “Historic Facebook debut falls flat”. Bloomberg was in the same vein, “Facebook Fails Day-One Pop, Lags Behind Google”. LA Times was … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Innovation, Internet, Social media
Tagged Facebook IPO, Innovation, internet, social media
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Is the Internet killing the book reading habit?
I bought eight books yesterday. Two by Theroux, Kerouac’s classic on the road, Tim Smith’s on Ibn Battuta’s trail, a wonderful little book on mankind’s fascination with the end of mankind, Sun Tzu’s art of war, one about the biggest … Continue reading
Can one ‘inadvertently’ become a computer engineer?
Yahoo’s new CEO, Scott Thompson, is under fire, and it’s not for Yahoo’s performance. In his resume Scott claimed he was a computer engineer. Turns out that he is not a computer engineer, far from it, and instead has a … Continue reading
