Sorry mate, as I said above, the direct marketing title really makes me doubt you got anything right here.

But unlike The Guardian debacle, I am afraid to say, Michael, the title kind of cheapens the whole article. I don’t know if I feel comfortable with being led to think Jerry said “we’re done” when in fact that is more your analysis of the guy’s body language, coupled with the analysis of “loose” sentences you mention he said.

I am sure that with a Law background, you wouldn’t write anything that could hook you up legally but thinking at this level, if you did, doesn’t supersede how far from legal technicalities a relationship of trust between writer/publication and readers is built.

I think it is cool you leave your personal notes, but they are still your perception and now that you used this direct marketing technique to call our attention it is really hard to trust that they are conveying anything else but your personal bias/interpretation in raw state.

I suppose you might have the unedited video so that we can settle the case?

Cheers!

That headline will be appropriate when Yahoo’s legal team come after you for libel.

I hope his sharholders string him up. We need a good no. 2 to play ball against Google. It’s not about beating Google. We just need good competition and consumer choices which a MS Yahoo could offer. As earlier said by Mike it could also be a great focus for a serious brand that Microsoft could pump resources into. Live and MSN are scattered brands, some of Microsoft’s stuff is better than Yahoo’s (Live Maps). That should be part of the new brand. And with the new brand they need to get out and be seen and heard.

I’m hearing lot’s of irrelevant stuff here! 1/. what has Arrington’s non billionaire status go to do with anything… 2/. Mike is biased to Google and MS! Sorry debs, but MS and Yahoo are enemies. You can’t be biased to both. Yahoo has let it’s share price drop because of how it performs and current market conditions. Weak share price means getting bought up by a bigger fish. This is the year of M&A’s. The Yahoo brand is pretty successful. I just think that Microsoft can use it (yeah USE) to get a proper foothold on the web. They need it bad… no matter what they are saying this month