Good Morning Silicon Valley

Googleheads — like crackheads, only cheerier (Thanks Sergey)

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It was supposed to be one of the hottest initial public offerings of the year, but like so much in the company’s history, Vonage’s IPO was more stumble than soar (see “Sure, I remember Vonage … what’d they do again?“). Shares in the company began trading May 24 on the New York Stock Exchange at [...]

“The Internet has made sex-lazy men even sex-lazier where they get lost in their own world. It used to be said that men neglected foreplay, but now they are neglecting sex.”

— Phillip Hodson of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy says that “information overload” is a very real phenomenon.

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The bad press surrounding AT&T’s cozy relationship with the NSA must have really gotten to Ed Whitacre Jr. (see “AT&T. Your world, delivered.“). How else could one explain the AT&T chairman’s sudden reversal on another hot-button issue these days, Net neutrality. Speaking at Sanford C. Bernstein and Company’s Strategic Decisions Conference, Whitacre, who’s been arguing [...]

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates kicked off the 4th annual D: All Things Digital Conference last night with the last thing you’d expect: a tacit acknowledgement that Google’s search product is superior to Microsoft’s. “We have to do things for search users to convince them to type in our URL,” Gates said. “[Google's] still very much [...]

Interesting news, this: Merrill Lynch seems to think we may hear another big announcement from AMD tomorrow when the company meets with analysts.
“Investors may not be expecting much from AMD at the upcoming analyst meeting on June 1 given the series of recent disclosures regarding the updated server road map, plans to begin shipping [...]

Six months or so after losing its president, Gene Hodges, to rival Websense, McAfee is still reshaping its management team, although not exactly in the way it would like. On Tuesday afternoon, the security vendor said it fired its General Counsel Kent Roberts after an internal review of its stock-options granting practices. McAfee offered little [...]

Truth is often stranger than fiction, but not so strange, I think, as to support a Microsoft acquisition of eBay. So while rumors of such a deal, like the one reported in the New York Post last week that had Microsoft chatting with eBay about acquiring the online auction company and merging it with MSN, [...]

The Secret Wars Re-Enactment Society and
Kung Fu Clowns (Thanks Brian)

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Let’s talk for a few minutes today about how you’re trying to take my job. By “you,” I mean all y’all, the vast public throbbing with creativity and wired up with broadband. And by “me,” I mean me and JP and countless writers, photographers, filmmakers and artists who historically have constituted the class of Professional [...]

A group of visitors to Apple’s snazzy new store in New York City last week got to enjoy the resplendent scene a bit longer than they anticipated after getting trapped in the showpiece glass elevator for 45 minutes. The shoppers were eventually freed by New York’s finest, and the casualty list was limited to two [...]

“Politics is much more of an art than a science; art is probably too nice a word for it. It’s a right-brain thing. These guys really come out of a left-brain kind of world. A lot of them who are very well-meaning, very effective, smart people, still have a hard time intuitively understanding how Washington, [...]

I’m feeling a bit under the weather today. Posting will be light.

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Laughing Yoga

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What Not To Do On A Trampoline and a follow-up to Girlfriend 6.0 vs. Wife 1.0: Comparative Trial, Husband 1.0 Tech Support (Thanks Michael)

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