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  • commenter
    Victor J.
    Cook, Jr.
    Feb 27 11:53 AM
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    Yahoo + Adobe: It's a Vision Thing [view article]
    Dennis.

    1. Aunt Sue and all do object to advertising on TV--thank god for Tivo?

    A quick web search suggests TIVO has a US market penetration in the 18% range. Not exactly a repudiation of TV advertising!

    2. Believe me, it's well worth not having advertising popups and overlays and "click here if you don't want to wait 45 seconds."?

    I don’t know Dennis. Last week 46% of visitors to yahoo.com went there for an email screen filled with display-ads, pop-ups, videos and all kinds of things. My more benign gmail screen is full of AdWords in the left-hand panel and across the top navigation bar. These are far less annoying and I even open them once in a while.

    3. Microsoft should buy both Adobe and Yahoo?

    Wouldn’t that be a hoot!

    ~V
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    o.c.d.collec
    tibles
    Feb 27 11:31 AM
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    eBay Watch: Effects of a Promotion, Share Woes Could Be Worse [view article]
    Hi! I am also a long time member of ebay, and most recently a part time seller who augments my part time Registered Nurse's salary by selling on ebay. I also have a decent reputation as a seller. Ebay's principles are to increase their earnings as a stock. They compete with other internet entities. Their online auction business is only secondary to the internet innovations and technology that they have pioneered. This is what they do best. Unfortunately, they are using their auction income to finance the tech work that they want to sell. They will most likely be focusing on the new marketing packages that they are affiliated with and will want to eliminate anything else that wastes their time. If they REALLY wanted to remain in the online seller auction industry, they would have branched out and divided the auction business into another area of business and maybe called it "Ebay Flea Market" and left it as separate from their high end producers and marketers. Because they view individual sellers as "flea market" and have publicly denounced that type of venue, it stands to reason, that they don't feel it's worth the effort of keeping. Perhaps, if they raise the fees and make it uncomfortable for the sellers whose income does not feed the ebay structure, they can continue to support the high volume retailers who purchase ebay's affiliated marketing packages. I can see where they are going, and it is not the same way as Amazon, or Overstock, who understand that they can have this arm of business to augment the existing internet business that they already had. Ebay is not going to suffer. They WILL change and they will NOT be flea market auctions, as they SO enjoy calling the excellent sellers who put them where they are today. Reply
  • commenter
    Doc Tater
    Feb 27 10:47 AM
    Under The Radar News - Friday [view article]
    Headline: EU fines Microsoft $1.3 Billion.

    Microsoft's reply to the EU should be, "Nuts!" (Yes, the World War II reference is intentional, for the edification of those among you who have mastered a little 20th century military history.) And, yes, there's a war going on, and it's reasonable to see this silly fine is part of that war.

    Had an EU member nation developed software with the dominating market exposure Microsoft has achieved, the EU wouldn't have had any problem with the charges to competitors for interoperability info. Those charges would just be regarded as the price of admission.

    So, where's this bogus EU fine coming from? To answer that question you have to ask another question: "Why isn't the EU trying to fine OPEC for excessive oil prices?"
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  • commenter
    grammar_nazi
    Feb 26 11:21 PM
    Yahoo Buzz Launches: Popular Stories To Go On Yahoo Homepage [view article]
    "Let's" is short for "let us". So to rephrase the author, "... takes stories from pre-approved news publishers (100 to start) and let us users vote on stories...".

    Atrocious apostrophe abuse.     Reply
  • commenter
    dan clue
    Feb 26 04:20 PM
    Seeking Alpha Now Carried On E*Trade [view article]
    I'm real dissappointed in Etrades lack of feedback on its mortgage side of the business. How many additional defaults and do they have enough people paying to negate the people not paying?

    I want to see more info that helps the share value achieve price stability. The more communication the better the shareholders and customers will feel about Etrades brand image.

    I would love to see Etrade sold as long as I could keep my shares this may help increase the stock stability and shareholder confidence.     Reply
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    billddrummer
    Feb 26 02:29 PM
    Under The Radar News - Friday [view article]
    Re/CC-Wattles sees an opportunity to make some money after he replaces the board with his own people, gets Schoonover out of the executive suite, and makes the chain a RadioShack clone. I don't think he's bullish on the company, just bullish on the upside that will result after he's done chopping heads. Reply
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    benjamin6
    Feb 26 01:21 PM
    Most Overbought/Oversold Stocks [view article]
    Ok, so I' m a new to t analyss. I understand, I believe, that if the stock is over sold, it may be udervalued, and if it's oversold it may be overvalued. These values are then based on 50 day moving averages.
    Are the target prices listed here also based on 1 SD of the mean of the trading range, or are they based on further expert analysis of the fundamentals of the company, along with news, and sentiment about the stocks immediate future?     Reply
  • commenter
    NewsVisual
    Feb 26 01:03 PM
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    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Ouch for Citigroup indeed. It could be worth noting that the bank also posted $100 million in gains on 55 separate days last year, but that's hardly worth celebrating next to the $20+ billions in write-downs. Reply
  • commenter
    Arthuro
    Feb 26 08:23 AM
    Yahoo Buzz Launches: Popular Stories To Go On Yahoo Homepage [view article]
    Lets see, Yahoo’s new approaches that are screwed up (but at least they look cool):

    TV - Unusable format -quadruples the clicks to get data if you can get it at all
    News message boards - Doesn’t exist anymore
    News - Outdated or non-timely information, some haven’t been updated for weeks
    Stock message boards - Rampant with spam & trolls
    Stock symbols lookup - Works some of the time
    Groups - Spam & porno
    Yahoo mail - Many things I just don’t need but at least now it’s sloooow and rampant with spam
    Yahoo sport - Terrible format & dated information

    My Yahoo Beta - Now an unusable format. I will be gone once it comes out of Beta and is forced on us

    and now Buzz…

    In the American tradition of form over function… and change for change sake, thank god for Goggle or we’d really be progressing to the stone age. As a systems engineer myself, I know the first lesson of version changes is to not lose user functionality.

    From an original YAHOO user with 80% of my time on the web spent at their site, I’m now down to <30% ans with the new Buzz format it will be less. By mid-year I will have completely migrated to Google. I can't believe their doing what your doing.
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  • commenter
    CrossProfit
    Feb 26 07:43 AM
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    Seeking Alpha Now Carried On E*Trade [view article]
    daffy,

    The SA format is simple. Go to the homepage. The 'news' column is done by SA salaried employees. The 'opinion & analysis' column are articles that are written by non affiliated authors.

    For 'opinion & analysis', SA editors work in two modes. First is the 'active draw mode'. In this mode, SA editors enter approximately 50 predetermined sites on a daily basis and draw articles from the site (article aggregation). Second mode is submission mode, where approximately 400+ authors submit articles for publication.

    To better the chances of publication, authors have noticed that if they take an opposing view to a recently published article on SA, they have a better chance of getting published. SA loves to pitch all sides of an argument. Likewise, you can submit a well written and documented article and you may not get published if the editors feel that the article does not add anything new to what has already been published. The quality of the writing is second fiddle to the thought process and insight. Remember, SA is not competing with MarketWatch or AP and is not a 'breaking news' service per se.

    As for comments, SA never deletes comments based on opinion. You can write the most wacky opinion, as long as it is non derogatory it will stay. Even some personal attacks on authors are left 'as is' as long as the commentator is making a valid argument along with the 'anger attack'.

    Anyone can post a comment as long as they register, thus reducing spam.

    CrossProfit is not affiliated with SA and we submit articles for publication. To date, about 10% (perhaps 15%) of articles submitted were rejected, sometimes flat out and other times on a re-write basis.

    If you need more info, e-mail SA.

    SA editors,
    Please correct any inaccurate info in this comment.

    CrossProfit     Reply
  • commenter
    Dennis
    Byron
    (Research
    2.0)
    Feb 26 05:56 AM
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    Yahoo + Adobe: It's a Vision Thing [view article]
    Great analysis, Victor, especially countering the Professor with the idea that 500 Fortune 500 customers are better than a couple of billion consumers. How 20th century of him.

    But I have a few issues that might change your overall thinking (in reverse order to where they appear in your article):
    1. Aunt Sue and all do object to advertising on TV--thank god for Tivo
    2. In addition to Microsoft Works, which is basically sold bundled by OEMs, Aunt Sue can get a pretty full "3-device" Office 2007 Home and Student(Word/Powerpoin... and something called OneNote) for $50 "per device." One of the devices doesn't even have to belong to a student or a teacher, which was the XP deal. So one for Sue, one for Uncle Jim's computer and one for someone else. Believe me, it's well worth not having advertising popups and overlays and " click here if you don't want to wait 45 seconds."
    3. Online applications have a major flaw. 40 years ago when I started we called it computing. Somewhere along the line it became offline computing. After a short hiatus, it made a comeback as disconnected computing. It's still important.

    Overall great analysis. Microsoft should buy both Adobe and Yahoo.

    -- Dennis     Reply
  • commenter
    Alpha Seeker
    Feb 26 03:26 AM
    Seeking Alpha Now Carried On E*Trade [view article]
    Seeking Alpha are my boyz. However, E-Trade has been failing its customers and failing to really define what the heck they stand for all these years. The company did backwards Russian equillibristics only to come up with some credit-laden news and blow every respected shareholder out of the water. Count the days before E-trade gets bought out at a really cheap price by some fat-necked Wall Street brokererage. The message was simple in the beginning: Innovate, make it simple and cut costs. E-Trade did not match any of it lately.

    Rob, WallastonInvestments.c...     Reply
  • commenter
    marketwatchr
    Feb 25 10:16 PM
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    Fox Said To Be Exploring End to Google Advertising Deal [view article]
    The difference is that Google makes decisions with too much emotion. Microsoft dosen't. Yahoo's overly emotional leadership is what allowed Microsoft to offer to buy Yahoo while it was $19. Business is business.
    Seregy's emotions may have got them in more trouble than this one decision....time will tell.     Reply
  • commenter
    daffy
    Feb 25 09:41 PM
    My Website
    Seeking Alpha Now Carried On E*Trade [view article]
    I like the comments as much as the articles. Being new at this whole stock trading thing, I sometimes wonder who really works for Seeking Alpha since there seems to be a lot of people here writing articles. I am curious, does SA have it's regular writers and then some freelance writers who submit articles for SA to peruse and possibly publish? Just curious, and it will have no impact on whether I use SA or not, but just might help me decide what to ponder, what to pander, and what to believe.

    Thanks SA, I have been reading your articles since starting with eTrade. Has anybody tried to get a 1st mortgage through eTrade? If you have, and if you have an opinion, I would like to know how you would rate the availablity of credit from eTrade vs. your previous lender.

    That's all folks. And thanks to all the commentors, your opinions are read and appreciated.     Reply
  • commenter
    Joel
    Feb 25 08:29 PM
    My Website
    Online Marketing Too Expensive for FTD (FTD, GOOG, YHOO) [view article]
    I believe that pay per click has gotten way out of control and if its getting to expensive for even FTD wow something is wrong. Thats why I started tagsoda.com a pay per sale tagging shopping engine

    check it out and let me know what you think of it

    thanks
    joel

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