Comments on: Yet Another Botched Opportunity For a Social Media News Release (WHY? — I mean, “why?”)

By: Deep Jive Interests » * Wishing The Scobles All The Best ...

Deep Jive Interests » * Wishing The Scobles All The Best ... — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:10:28 +0000

[...] belated congratulations to Robert and Miriam Scoble on the birth of their new baby. Robert and I haven’t always seen eye-to-eye, but as a relatively new dad (my boy is almost one — hard to believe), I’ll raise my [...]

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:52:13 +0000

Joe — thanks for the kind thoughts.

It will remain to be seen where Y! is going with all of this … its hard to be elitest when you seem to be proverbially in second place, after all. ;)

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:50:47 +0000

Thanks Todd … just trying to keep the SMNR idea alive in these thar parts ;)

By: Todd Defren

Todd Defren — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:48:54 +0000

Amen, Tony. You’re dead on.

By: Joe Duck

Joe Duck — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:05:48 +0000

Tony!

Right as usual. Why are you wasting your time doctoring when you should be directing online marketing campaigns? Physicians are needed to heal Y’s self.

I think low morale and a bizarre kind of elitism at Yahoo is reflected in many of these marketing failures. e.g. at one of the big Las Vegas conferences for internet publishers last year Yahoo announced Panama to the crowd and then effectively disinvited most of the 2000 or so attendees from an exclusive “Panama” party. cf Google who welcomed everybody (as they always do) to their modest but lively and fun bash.

By: Deep Jive Interests » 3 Questions Yahoo! SmartAds Needs To Answer

Deep Jive Interests » 3 Questions Yahoo! SmartAds Needs To Answer — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:10:30 +0000

[...] Questions Yahoo! SmartAds Needs To Answer July 2nd, 2007 at 1:10 pm Ok — my ranting’s done. Left-sided brain thinking now. Yahoo! SmartAds looks like an interesting product. If you’re [...]