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QOTD: A Paint Job Instead of an Overhaul From Yahoo
Mayer’s much-hyped relaunch of the home page seems a lot like adding a new coat of paint and some racing stripes to your old Chevy. It may make you feel better, but it’s not going to go any faster.
– Mathew Ingram, GigaOM
Five Years In
With 20/20 hindsight, the Nextel merger was a mistake. The synergies, if you will, that we had hoped for and planned for didn’t materialize.
– Sprint’s Dan Hesse to GigaOM’s Kevin Fitchard, on his fifth anniversary as CEO
Self-Cleaning Oven
“we’re living in a golden age where the internet is kind of self-cleaning oven” and the truth eventually comes out says @carr2n
– Mathew Ingram, quoting from a David Carr lecture via Twitter
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Zynga Loses Cloud Tech Expert Allan Leinwand to ServiceNow
Zynga’s CTO of Infrastructure Allan Leinwand has left the social games company, reports GigaOm, which says the executive has assumed a similar role at ServiceNow. Leinwand was a key executive helping to shift the company from Amazon’s cloud services to its own infrastructure. Leinwand follows a string of other departures as the company’s stock continues to trade near all-time lows.
Rafat Ali 2.0: Meet Skift, the Travel Industry’s Version of PaidContent
What do you do after you build and sell a pioneering digital media start-up? Take two years off, and start building another media star-tup.
An Attack on WikiLeaks Is an Implicit Attack on Media
You don’t have to embrace Julian Assange as a kindred spirit to believe that what he did in publishing those cables falls under the protection of the First Amendment.
– Former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, in an email to GigaOM’s Mathew Ingram in response to a post by Ingram entitled “First they came for WikiLeaks, then the New York Times”
The Web’s Primetime Broadband Traffic Jam (Chart)
Want blazing fast broadband? Stay off the Internet after work.
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The “B” Word
Pundits and others are using the B word — bubble — more than ever. Is it time to stop, or will this gain even more traction in 2012?
Big Win for New Old Media
While it’s tempting to see the Huffington Post’s Pulitzer as a “big win for new media,” or something like that, the real story is that these organizations — the Huffington Post, the New York Times, the Washington Post — are becoming more like each other. Old media and new media are increasingly antiquated terms.
– Journalism professor Jay Rosen to HuffPo media writer Michael Calderone (via GigaOM)
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