Vincent Ferrari decided to cancel his AOL account. Little did he know how hard it was going to be. Click through to hear the audio recording of his phone call to AOL’s cancellation (a.k.a. “retention”) department. I had an AOL account years ago. I kept it around because many of the suits in my office […]
If you haven’t yet, you really should read Bill Gates’ all hands email announcing his departure as Chief Software Architect of Microsoft in 2008. What’s even funnier though is ValleyWag’s line-by-line interpretation of said email. Another official memo, another official string of bull: After his retirement announcement, Microsoft founder Bill Gates sent an all-hands internal […]
At its core, Wikipedia is not just a reference work but also an online community that has built itself a bureaucracy of sorts–one that, in response to well-publicized problems with some entries, has recently grown more elaborate. It has a clear power structure that gives volunteer administrators the authority to exercise editorial control, delete unsuitable […]
I thought the following might interest you and/or your readers and would appreciate a link if you consider it interesting enough… Building Buzz Apple has it. Google has it. Microsoft fails at it. Yahoo! sometimes does and sometimes doesn’t. What I am talking about is buzz and coolness. It seems every time Apple or Google […]
Stan’s List: Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2006 first quarter ended Dec 31, 2005, reporting the highest revenue and earnings in the company’s history. The Apple posted revenues of $5.75 billion and a net profit of $565 million, or $0.65 per diluted share, in this 14-week quarter. These results compare to revenue […]