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1 month ago

in Agent 3Z on Zaza's thing
This would certainly make more sense if there was a proper apostrophe where it belonged! ;-)

1 year ago

in My Thinking on YHOO on A VC
All well and good...but with Yahoo ceding control of their main product (ad revenue on search and its content aggregation), what exactly is the business that they are left with? To me, it is as if Target decides to outsource its retail operation to Walmart and industry pundits saying "...clean house, get lean, get out of businesses it shouldn’t be in. Focus on what it’s good at. And start making money and growing again..." Not to be disrespectful, where should they go from here?
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stone Steve, you hit the nail on the head my friend. People seem to miss the point here. This isn't some ancillary business that they decided to exit, it has been their core mission (panama) for the last few years so says Sue Decker and Jerry Yang. I don't care that it's only certain search queries. That also misses the point in my mind. How does Yahoo credibly talk to publishers about monetizing their inventory going forward? If they come to me I'm going to ask why they failed in search and why I should believe they are much better with content pages than search. What is the answer going to be? I'd like someone to attempt that answer. It puts their entire display/exchange business in jeopardy, especially when Google and DoubleClick walk into publishers with bundled solutions and clever ways to leverage their expertise in search to monetize display inventory. Yahoo loses that sale 80% of the time, mark my words.

1 year ago

in Writers’ Strike? Really? on Kyle Brady: A Blog
How about just giving the writes a percentage of the take. If it is displayed with no revenue gain for the studies, they get nothing. If there is revenue, then they get a share. This is going to be an issue when the actors and the directors unions contracts come up later in the year. They also currently enjoy residuals as part of their compensation and are losing out on digital delivery. The whole industry has to deal with this, the writers are just first.

2 years ago

in Remote data backup service review on Tom Markiewicz
I am also a huge fan of Mozy which has some key differentiators that I don't believe have been mentioned here:

1) It can back up open files
2) It backs up outlook PST files even when open (Outlook is running)
3) It does true incremental backups - often my 2 GB backup takes only a few minutes representing just my changed files.

Otherwise, it is generally rock solid. I also use Xdrive and it simply cannot compare to Mozy.
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