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How Yahoo lost its way

17 Mar

By Elise Ackerman and Pete CareyMercury News

Article Launched: 03/16/2008 01:43:09 AM PDT

Almost eight years ago, Yahoo decided to lend a little start-up a helping hand, featuring its search technology on the Yahoo home page and giving it money at a critical juncture. In cutthroat Silicon Valley, no good deed goes unpunished.

The start-up was Google, and Yahoo’s generosity helped launch the most formidable competitor it had ever encountered. Now facing a takeover attempt by Microsoft, Yahoo is coming to terms with the punishing consequences of its complex relationship with Google, including a futile attempt to copy Google’s extraordinarily profitable advertising model at significant cost to Yahoo’s own business.

Long before the world learned that Google had turned the Internet into an amazing money-minting machine, Yahoo knew.

When Google was still a private company, it sent its financial statements to Yahoo’s headquarters in Sunnyvale like clockwork. Google had to because Yahoo was one of its earliest investors. …. [ continua ]

 

 
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Morte ao (meu) desktop :(

16 Mar

RIPDemorou… mas acho que chegou a hora. Vou me livrar do meu desktop e não pretendo ter mais nenhum durante um bom tempo.


Nao encontro mais formas de utilizar dois computadores, o meu Macbook Pro (MBP) supre todas as minhas necessidades. Relutante, pensei em algumas alternativas para manter o meu Dell comigo: montar um servidor Freebsb (para desenvolver minhas coisas), deixar uma máquina apenas para jogos ou uma máquina para rodar aqueles programas que só funcionam no windows, mas o MBP e o Mac OX conseguem resolver todos esses problemas. Para rodar o windows no meu Mac eu posso usar o VMWare Fusion (funciona muito bem), para ter um servidor rodando não preciso fazer nada, o Mac Os é um sintema baseado em unix, e finalmente os jogos – ou uso o Fusion ou o proprio Mac (como o caso do Quake 4). Acho que o tempo do meu velho PC passou…

MPB – 17′ – HD 160Gb – 2Gb ram – Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 @ 2.40GHz – GeForce 8600M c/ 256Mb

DELL – 17′ – HD 160GB – 3Gb Ram – Intel Pentium 4 3.4Ghz Hyper Threading – GeForce 8600 GT c/ 256Mb

 
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