Yahoo Live demonstrated at Adobe Engage event
Yahoo Live demonstrated at Adobe Engage event
This is the first time I’ve seen Yahoo’s Live video streaming service demonstrated. Here’s a separate video of the first part of the presentation, which demonstrates a mini bar. They showed it off at the Adobe Engage event yesterday. Very cool, I ask why they haven’t done a cell phone streaming service, like Qik.com, and […]
Yeah, yeah, I know, I should have done this years ago. But Hotmail is just something I was addicted to. My email address is all over the Internet, so I resisted totally making the switch. Plus I was an Outlook guy, so didn’t really need to deal with the online service, all your emails just […]
Ken Hess?s Checklist for Building a Company
There’s a lot of wisdom in Ken Hess’s Remarks to Software Forum Dinner Meeting (from 1997!):
Ken’s Checklist for Building a Company
This checklist is about getting the odds in your favor. Fitting together all these pieces of the puzzle is what separates a good business plan from mere speculation.
1. Are you focused on creating the product?
2. […]
Mark Zuckerberg taps Google’s Sheryl Sandberg as Facebook COO [Hires]
Does Mark Zuckerberg read Valleywag? Facebook’s young CEO isn’t known for taking unsolicited advice, but we suggested he hire Google executive Sheryl Sandberg just two weeks ago. Well, that was fast: BoomTown reports Sandberg’s been hired as Facebook’s COO. Sandberg is Facebook’s first women executive, and she’s older than Zuckerberg’s 20something brain trust. But demographics are not the reason this hire is striking.
Sandberg ran Google’s AdWords, the mostly automated online-sales operation which provides most of Google’s revenue. Facebook has launched a similar self-service offering, though it’s not anywhere near the scale of Google’s. Sandberg’s hire means that Facebook has serious ambitions to challenge Google in online advertising — not by courting Madison Avenue with well-paid salespeople, but by taking it on directly in advertising technology.