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  • The eBay Chronicles: Dreams of an eBay Mashup

    By Jeffrey S. Young | June 22, 2006, 4:38pm PDT

    I’ve been pondering the state of Internet commerce recently, and wondering why eBay has missed the chance to be the center of all commerce while Google has become our main shopping resource by...

  • America's Future...isn't in America

    By Jeffrey S. Young | May 17, 2006, 12:11pm PDT

    It’s funny what you can learn from your kids. My latest lessons have to do with the gnashing of teeth over America’s threatened future and the flattening of the world that is destroying our...

  • Tyranny of the New

    By Jeffrey S. Young | April 27, 2006, 1:46pm PDT

    In the past few days a couple of writers—Gary Hamel on Google and Om Malik regarding EBay—have made clear just how corrosive the Web 2.0 bubble mentality and the Wall Street mantra of “Growth at...

  • More Microsoft Chinese Backscratching

    By Jeffrey S. Young | April 26, 2006, 10:33am PDT

    I’m not advocating a Fortress America attitude, just wondering why we can’t have leaders who’ll combine a desire to make money with a willingness to speak out enough to nudge repressive regimes...

  • Capitalism Gone Amok

    By Jeffrey S. Young | April 25, 2006, 4:55pm PDT

    The fawning and obsequious behavior of Bill Gates, the world’s most powerful businessman in the presence of China’s premier, and his deafening silence, was one of the most depressing...

  • EBay: Evolution or Hibernation

    By Jeffrey S. Young | April 21, 2006, 1:21pm PDT

    Bemoaning a new competitive threat, looking for some grand alliance to fight it off, and generally playing “woe is me”? is a prescription for failure. EBay has fallen asleep under the Flame...

  • Apple's Boot Camp Lollapalooza

    By Jeffrey S. Young | April 6, 2006, 4:19pm PDT

    Boot Camp is going to revolutionize the portable marketplace, and almost no one gets it.

  • Caveat eBay Emptor

    By Jeffrey S. Young | April 5, 2006, 2:08pm PDT

    Another Gold Plated Internet Brand Loses Touch With Its Customers

  • The Cookie Monster in the Closet

    By Jeffrey S. Young | March 29, 2006, 11:50am PST

    Is the entire web universe populated by advertising weasels, sell-outs, and apologists?

  • Google's Napoleonic Complex

    By Jeffrey S. Young | March 22, 2006, 6:19pm PST

    Is the ghost of Napoleon walking the corridors of the Googleplex?

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