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05 16th, 2008| 
One of the questions I get asked frequently is “which search conferences should I attend”. Seeing as conferences end up costing you between $3500-$5000 a pop when you include travel, lodging and meals I thought I’d share my experience.
May
16
My ex-boss, John Furrier, goes after Facebook after Facebook blocked Google’s Friend Connect from using its API to inport friends from Facebook into Google’s Friend Connect.
May
16
Perhaps this deal has been scheduled for months, but it seems that a little pressure has once again worked (semi-) wonders. As letters to and from Carl Icahn sail around, Yahoo announced a partnership with ad giant WPP this morning.
May
16
Twitter’s been the subject of embarrassing outages, spam concerns, and serious questions about its general usefulness. None of this seems to matter much, though, as new data from Compete shows that the service is growing at an extremely impressive rate.
May
16
Megan Meier’s suicide after breaking up with a fake boyfriend created by Drew on MySpace led to her indictment on federal charges.
May
16
Carl Icahn’s hostile board takeover bid received a cold reception from Yahoo, which tried to justify why it rejected Microsoft’s lucrative acquisition offer.
May
15
Moniker.com plans to part with a number of domain names at auction on May 23rd. One of the domains will be Israel.com, with the highest starting bid in the group.
May
15
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn published a letter he submitted to Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock, officially confirming his intent to challenge Yahoo’s board.
May
15
Only two countries in the world have ISPs actively blocking or interfering with BitTorrent transmissions: Singapore and the United States. Only one kind of ISP in both countries, though, is doing the blocking: cable.
An independent test conducted by Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Software Systems showed that Comcast and Cox are both currently interfering with BitTorrent despite recent public and regulatory outrage.
May
15
Consider it confirmed: Carl Icahn wants to stick ten new men on Yahoo’s board of directors. Icahn’s even gone so far as to provide their names and biographies, and the men constitute a rather interesting collection.
