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  • TDavid  Any separate podcast feed (with decent sized image) for Off The Cuff, Steven?
  • • 3 weeks ago
    •   Off the Cuff: Who needs destinations
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  •   StevenHodson  I'll be working on that TDavid as I work my way through several podcasting ideas I've been having. Rather do it all at once rather than having to keep repeating the process - but yes there will be one.
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  • TDavid  Not saying the following statement is untrue, but it seems a bit far-fetched: "I know myself I have never used any search engine in order to find something I wanted to purchase. " Never? *Never*? How much shopping do you do online? You *never* have heard about a product or service from somewhere other than the internet and used a search engine to find out where to buy it? We do a considerable amount of shopping online and while that 10% figure seems high even to our household, it's a long way from "never."
  • • 3 weeks ago
    •   Search isn’t about buying stuff
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  •   StevenHodson  Sorry TDavid but I can honestly say that I haven't searched for where to find a product I want to buy. *If* I am buying something from the web it is because it is something I have already on my radar which means I know where to find the product. I will say I have used search for navigation purposes but not for buying stuff.
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  • TDavid  Congratulations on your new Mashable gig, Steven.
  • • 4 weeks ago
    •   From the Pipeline – 6.24.08
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  • TDavid  I understand your early adopter affection for FF, but it's still a long way from mainstream -- it's barely tech mainstream. Y! doesn't need more early adopter, whiz bang stuff, they need some serious leadership and focus. Yang is a terrible CEO. Buying FriendFeed or Twitter or anything like this at the present time would take them in yet another direction rather than enhance and strengthen their existing services. Y! should consider *SELLING* some of their prized, but less financially viable assets and fortify their strategy for the future. I doubt as long as Yang is at the helm this will be possible, so let's hope that dream suggestion of yours for him to get the boot comes true.
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Bringing Yahoo back from the grave
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  •   StevenHodson  Actually my "affection" for FriendFeed has nothing to do with being an early adopter (which btw isn't a term I would really associate with me :) ). For me FriendFeed; as I have written in the past, is an integral part of my work as a blogger. And I realize that FriendFeed isn't mainstream - I think it will have a hard time getting there as well. I agree that Yahoo needs to sell off some things as it needs to really re-discover who and what it is as a company.
  •   Eric Rice  Heh, just swap del.icio.us and Friendfeed, heh.
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  • TDavid  "3. Tell Carl Icahn to go sit in the corner and STFU" Umm, you do realize Carl Icahn is a part OWNER of Yahoo, right? Sure you do. As a major shareholder -- like it or not -- Icahn does have a say in Y! operations, He paid for that right. When Yahoo! decided to go public the company lost the ability for the execs, both current and future, to go tell shareholders to go pound sand -- without severe consequences. Icahn is simply sticking up for the rights of himself and all other shareholders for Y! to be fiscally responsible. I'm a Y! shareholder and am disgusted with what's happening there lately. I don't want Icahn to STFU, I want him to make more noise. The way Yang handled the Microsoft deal doesn't seem to be in the best interest of shareholders, at least from the heavily filtered information we see on the outside. And putting the Friendfeed people in charge of Y! is one of the oddest suggestions I've seen yet. You can't be serious on that one, are you? If you are, let me laugh out loud. The owners of FF came from Google, remember, I don't think they want to become any part of the walking abortion Y! currently is operating as.
  • • 1 month ago
    •   Bringing Yahoo back from the grave
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  •   StevenHodson  Yes I realize that Carl is a major stockholder but as far as I am concerned his actions are causing more problems for Yahoo that they are solving. As for the suggestion the FriendFeed guys be bought up and put in control of Yahoo - yes that was totally facetious and meant strictly to point out that for Yahoo to make it back from the brink of obscurity it is facing there has to be something really radical and totally unexpected done. I figured that using FriendFeed as a foil in that argument would spark a serious conversation on what can be done. As it stands right now any discussion about the matter is just more of the same old thing and tired ideas. I want Yahoo to stick around as well but I fear it won't unless something radical an unexpected is done and that doesn't include fire selling it to Microsoft.
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