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...apocalypse really had that kind of high school simplicity, however, why didn't Koogle head it off sooner? After all, here is a genius hailed by e-business author Peter Cohan as "one of the few adults in Silicon Valley," a man who saw the Web's potential years ahead of most. "My hair is graying because I've seen so many business cycles," Koogle joked to TIME last October. But he also displayed alarming signs of true believerism about web advertising. Disappearing dotcoms made no difference to his bottom line, he said, since traditional companies would pick...
...hardly surprising that the proud Yahoo culture is fending off potential takeovers with a two-year $500 million stock buyback plan. That will still leave $1.5 billion in the bank, effectively buying time for the company to figure out how to make more money on its own. Certainly Silicon Valley is rooting for Yahoo to stay independent in a world increasingly dominated by the AOL-Microsoft rivalry. "They do have a certain cachet, being the last Switzerland standing," says Sinnreich. Not that cachet alone pleases Wall Street anymore. If Yahoo is going to be Swiss, it had better find some...
...that the earth will open, and in some ghastly, bracing time reversal, will suck the gaudy Clinton era backward into a grainy trauma of black and white. Unthinkable reversions become possible - mass unemployment, who knows? We have already seen California's power grids shuddering. Will grass sprout through the silicon chips, and all that brilliant information revert to sand, and Gates to Ozymandias? Maybe not, but there's a chill...
Journalists who cover technology tend not to be the world's most active people. Take me, for example. Until a couple of months ago, the most exercise I got in an average day was the walk from my car to a Silicon Valley press event, at which the refreshments generally ranged from chocolate-covered pretzels and Coca-Cola to chocolate-encrusted peanut clusters and Coca-Cola. Despite repeated right-index-finger exercises (mouse clicking, Palm Pilotactivation and cell-phone dialing), my extra pounds were starting to tip the proverbial scales. By how much? Let's just say that...
...spread from office to office via e-mail like a benign virus. As a slide show rather than bandwidth-hogging video, it takes seconds to load (on such websites as thefever.com/AYB2.swf) Much of the spreading was being done last week by dotcom workers in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley, where good laughs are in short supply these days. But the inside joke may not be inside much longer: All Your Base T shirts are now being sold online...