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Yahoo, Google delay ad deal
After Google CEO Eric Schmidt insisted for months that a partnership to have Google sell ads on Yahoo would launch on time, regardless of the status of the government's investigation, he has now delayed it. That's the news. What's not news? That Schmidt lies whenever it's convenient to him. Remember how he said Google wasn't developing a Web browser. [BoomTown]
After Google CEO Eric Schmidt insisted for months that a partnership to have Google sell ads on Yahoo would launch on time, regardless of the status of the government's investigation, he has now delayed it. That's the news. What's not news? That Schmidt lies whenever it's convenient to him. Remember how he said Google wasn't developing a Web browser. [BoomTown]
youtube
Commercials your new punishment for not clicking on ads
YouTube will now run a post-roll commercial after you watch a clip if you don't click on the overlay advertisement that pops-up on partner videos. It's the kind of exciting, innovative thinking from re-hire Ben Ling, who was brought back into the Google mothership to figure out how to turn YouTube's revenue deficit frown upside down. It's also the kind of thinking that YouTube once attempted to scientifically prove users didn't like, but not the kind of thinking that Eric Schmidt has been telling anyone who will listen. The news also comes on the heels of YouTube's release of "hot spot" tracking — so you can better craft your narrative to make sure people stick around long enough for the commercial to play. (Image via NewTeeVee)
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Eric Schmidt and wife Wendy seen in Valleywag Green #61b335
Last week's opening gala for the new Renzo Piano-designed California Academy of Sciences building in Golden Gate Park was graced by Google CEO Eric Schmidt actually with wife Wendy Schmidt and Shawn Byers with Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers VC hubby Brook Byers. The Byers even had accessories crafted from the San Francisco Chronicle's funny pages. Care to craft a better headline? Leave it in the comments and we'll judge the entries harshly, promise. Yesterday "BoothRank == 0" from Athletic Supporter v0.42beta evaluated to true. (Photo by Catherine Bigelow/7x7)
lists
BusinessWeek scrapes Techmeme for its latest list
Loic Le Meur! Gabe Rivera! Joi Ito! Don't feel bad if you've never heard of them. BusinessWeek.com's latest 25 Most Influential People on the Web is a mashup of billionaire powerbrokers with a randomized handful of those folks you run into at that same little tech conference that happens under a different name every month. I'm guessing they left out TechCrunch's Michael Arrington to create buzz. If you don't want to click through 27 pageviews on BusinessWeek's site, here's the entire list in alphabetical order: More »
stocks
Google dips below the $400 mark
GOOG shares hit $395.02 at 9:32 a.m. Pacific time today. Contrary to Eric Schmidt's claim last week that the current American financial crisis is confined to Wall Street: "The drama is in New York and not here." On Friday, Kaufman Bros. analyst Jason Avilio had cut his revenue forecast for Google's third quarter by nearly 15 percent, from $4.7 billion to $4.03 billion. Now that shares have dipped below the psychological $400 mark, it's unlikely that today's new 52-week low will be the last one.
superficial
As the seasons change and we settle into autumn, I'm reminded once more that yet another year will soon pass and that we're all getting older. Or at least, the old people are. Check out the images below, picturing tech luminaries in their youths juxtaposed with more recent photos. You might find yourself in disagreement with the English poet John Donne, who wrote: "No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."
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Power geeks do not age well
As the seasons change and we settle into autumn, I'm reminded once more that yet another year will soon pass and that we're all getting older. Or at least, the old people are. Check out the images below, picturing tech luminaries in their youths juxtaposed with more recent photos. You might find yourself in disagreement with the English poet John Donne, who wrote: "No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."
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commenter of the day
eknirb
What a day! First, Eric S. Schmidt, Ph.D., has a webpage that looks like it was made with GeoCities from 1997 — and to top it off he's also using Yahoo Mail. Hey, Jerry Yang, screw that "Wear Purple" boondoggle and just hire our featured commenter, eknirb, who already has an effective ad campaign in mind: More »
cry for help
Eric Schmidt, please update your homepage
Google CEO Eric Schmidt doesn't have a blog like cofounder Sergey Brin. He has a homepage — a homepage which hasn't been updated in years. That background pattern! That ego-fluffing Wall Street Journal stippled portrait! And worst of all, that Yahoo Mail address. Designers, if you have a proposal for a more fitting Web presence for the hubristic CEO of the world's most self-righteous company, please send it ericschmidt1@yahoo.com. We suspect he's too proud to ask for help.
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