With Yahoo closing Geocities, I analyzed the impact of the original acquisition for the Ai blog. Was the sale worth it? Short answer: a very qualified yes, but more from a corporate perspective than a financial one. Take a look. (And let me know if I’m wrong.)
Category: Internet (Page 9 of 40)
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Washington cuts two players and sends a third to the minors. I always wonder why ball clubs don't do this more often. Managers and coaches are such easy targets, while the guys who can't play get paid millions anyway. Go Nats!
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Sentence of the day: "Captain Phillips … was found to be in relatively good condition for a 53-year-old seafarer who had been held since Wednesday by pirates who had demanded $2 million for his life." Trying to process what exactly that condition would be
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After spending all of last summer alternating between cuffing my jeans and getting them caught in my bike chain, I kind of need these
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More good news. One by one, the nation will come to its senses
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yup
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Amazing, wonderful stuff, from Iowa of all places
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New to me: "prama" (noun, PRAH-muh, shorthand for "dramatic events surrounding one's prom")
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Love
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I encounter the Q problem whenever I play against the computer (side note to EA: the new iPhone Scrabble app stinks! I want to de-update mine)
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Without giving away too much, I will note that this chart proves my childhood strategy to be correct
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Fantastic, fascinating analysis of the increasingly loud (and, as a result, less dynamic) music mixes. This is what a generation of earbud heaphones and mp3 compression has wrought. It's not wrong, either–try listening to Zeppelin on an iPod outside and see how hard it is–but it is making music less compelling in important ways. Check out Finger Eleven's "Paralyzer" for a great Exhibit A in contemporary mixing technique
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Obligatory joke: George W. Bush can't even pen a book, he has to make it a list