mew
For better or worse, Yahoo now doesn't have a leader. At least the market thinks that's a good thing and Yahoo shareholders got rewarded with a $1.3 billion bump. Today's featured commenter, mew, has a different idea about Jerry Yang leaving:
growhappy
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk could be Steve Jobs. If only his visionary companies and products were successes. Today's featured commenter, growhappy, connects more dots between Steve and Elon:
Sir Winston Thriller
This time around, dotcom exuberance is a lot more restrained than the first one. Except for Facebook and its legions of workers. Today's featured commenter, Sir Winston Thriller, wonders out loud why exactly Facebook needs so many workers:
sunnyvalesteve
The employee stock purchase plan seems like one of the few ways left for Yahoos to make money off their employer. Should it be eliminated because of short-term stock-flipping? sunnyvalesteve doesn't see the downside: "Hurt morale?? Like there's any left!"
RyanDunnuck
Google has an office in New York, and really wants you to know just how much better they are than you. With GOOG below $300 and employee options underwater, today's featured commenter RyanDunnuck quips:
marcsiry
Since Facebook doesn't quite know how to make money, our commenter of the day, marcsiry, has a better business model:
MrMedia
Aliph, the maker of the Jawbone Bluetooth headset, dropped half a million on fancy furniture for its offices, then fired 25 of the 75 people whose seats the purchase was meant to warm. Today's featured commenter, MrMedia, explains why the expenditure was worth it:
sample032
Voters passed Proposition 8, California's gay marriage ban, sparking calls for protests. Today's featured commenter, sample032, explains the whole big can of worms:
longtailwagsthevalley
Microsofties who want to make money on the Web without the hassle of actually working at Microsoft have been jumping on board Yahoo's sinking ship. Today's best commenter, longtailwagsthevalley, talks about the game of musical chairs:
TheronNaso
Funny because it's vile: TheronNaso observed, after learning that MySpace celebrity Tila Tequila was dating Mac spokeshipster Justin Long, that "the Mac's long history of avoiding mainstream viruses has come to an end."
Troll 2.0
Will the real Jimmy Wales please stand up? Troll 2.0 nails the slippery Wikipedia cofounder:
Tim the IT Guy
Our house sysadmin, Tim the IT Guy, had the best take on Twitter CEO's Ev Williams open call for a wannabe-CEO assistant:
imag
Commenter imag had a trenchant take on why Elon Musk's Tesla Motors is running short of cash:
macbeach
Why is Time Inc., the giant magazine publisher, paying McKinsey millions of dollars in consulting fees, when it could just ask Valleywag's commenters for free advice? Here's how macbeach weighed in:
RhymePhile
Is hogging elevators evil? RhymePhile is today's featured commenter for suggesting that Google's kitchen cutbacks could lessen the environmental impacts on fellow tenants of its New York office building:
madox
Hindsight is 20/20. Today's featured commenter, madox, has it in spades, on Twitter's lack of a business model:
thekevin
Tesla Motors is now weighed down with a big bag of problems. New CEO Elon Musk is dumping that bag on past CEOs' doorsteps. Lit on fire. Who can you blame? Today's featured commenter, thekevin, shares a parable about this situation:
random_play
Google's changes in the seclusion and segregation of its workers tempt us to invoke Godwin's Law — or at least Martin Niemöller's. Will cutting perks and benefits and firing people help push Googlers to wake up in Larry and Sergey's geek playland? Today's featured commenter is random_play, who waxes poetic about the…
Antilles_Prime
Did you copy an existing popular website and sell it off to a big corporation too dumb to realize what's going on? Twice? Xochi Birch did, first with Ringo and then Bebo. Today's featured commenter, Antilles_Prime, explains the kudos she's earned:
sggrf
Jason Calacanis took time out from his mailing list to blog about firing a baker's dozen of his Mahalo staff. The very same brilliant, hard-working, antifamily people he said he'd never compromise on. Today's featured commenter is sggrf, who wonders out loud on whether Calacanis might turn the episode into conference…
