Sorry homie, but aggregating Twitter streams does not a paradigm make.

This is a classic textbook case of a company’s directors acting in their own interests and preferences and totally ignoring the best interests of their shareholders.

Jerry is an ass-clown who deserves to be tossed out. What is his big claim to fame? He came up with the very “original” idea of a yellow pages for the web. Out of the thousands of companies that had cash splashed at them during web 1.0, Yahoo got lucky.

Contrast this with the brains of Larry & Sergey whose page-rank idea was ground-breaking 10 years ago and remains at the forefront today.

The first 100 days of Jerry’s new term as CEO came to nothing, and then he has the chutzpah/stupidity to turn down an offer like this.

Its shocking, billions of dollars in lost value for shareholders, all because Jerry remains too emotionally attached to his baby.

So who should be Yahoo!’s new CEO? Obviously someone with operating experience at an Internet company, unlike Terry Stemel, and strong knowledge of the online ad marketplace….

Perhaps this rejection of MSFT’s offer is a sign of how Yahoo is coming out swinging and is stepping up to the plate.

Cheers – Eric

a) The PC
b) The Internet
c) Gaming
d) Digital Media
e) Mobile

MS won big on (a) and completely missed (b). They caught on to (c) and tried (unsuccessfully so far) to get a footing in (d) and (e)

How many companies do you know that have successfully dominated multiple technology “S” curves? I don’t know of any (no, Intel isn’t one either). Microsoft, on the other hand, tried to do too many things and as a result did most of them poorly, just like Yahoo spread themselves too thin. Remember the “peanut butter manifesto”?

Without Yahoo or AOL or someone else established in (b) MS will pretty much have no choice but to forget about the Internet. With the inevitable decline of (a) and their failures in (d) and (e) that’s not an option if they want to continue to be relevant.

This isn’t over yet, not by a long shot …

… or that maybe many people find extreme value in Yahoo and that this Microsoft battle increased that value in our minds, and in Yang and Co.

The real story is what will happen to Microsoft stock over the next few weeks and months as their failures pile up. What failures does Yahoo have? That they are #2 after Google (and in search and advertising only)??? Hardly a failure in most people’s books.

But Microsoft? They have had nothing but failures galore as of late… Vista losing to Mac/Linux,XP, Live (what is it even? who knows? who cares?), European Union fines, Office 2007 losing to Google Docs, etc, crazy Minority Report surface tables…

In fact, in the past five years, Microsoft’s biggest success has been… Halo and the XBox 360.

Question: How many people in your address have a msn.com email address? Now count Yahoo and Gmail. Yahoo (and AOL) still win. Gmail is a close third for most folks (2nd or 1st for web workers). MSN? I have one contact – out of 330. Two if you count the one microsoft employee’s work email (@microsoft.com).

The second biggest success for Microsoft would have been it’s steal of Yahoo if it had gotten away with it. They might still try, but the real spotlight is on Microsoft.

Quite frankly, what does the world need them for anymore? In my humble opinion? Nothing. Nothing at all. And I’m not a MS hater – I’m using XP right now and have Vista at home. But I could easily move to another platform if I had to.

Besides, the O/S won’t go away if M/S does. It will get sold as an asset. Who will buy it? Hmmm… I’m thinking IBM. Seems fitting. Gates *stole* MS-DOS from IBM 25 years ago or so. The circle would be complete.

The web 1.0 leader worries about survival as a stand-alone property. Wall Street cares about growth and Yahoo has lost market share during the web 2.0 resurgence. Like Alice in Wonderland, the Yahoo community is bewildered.

So, your beloved M$ is still the fetid piece of shit it has always been.

Has anyone checked to see if any Microsoft interests bought up yahoo stock before the ‘buyout offer’. And if they sold Yahoo stocks just before the gave up on the ‘buyout offer’ ?