"I Surf So You Don't Have To" #8

Above pic is from http://sharkspage.com

Ha-low, I've collected enough bullets again. New here? go back to the beginning.

Enjoy the weird collection of news below.

1. Two more new iPhone ads. One is about iphone.facebook.com and the other is on www.kbb.com
   Ad #16 Facebook
   
   Ad #17 Car (KBB)
   
   
   
2. By now, I'm sure you've heard about Microsoft trying to acquire Yahoo. We all have read all kinds of in depth analysis, rumors, speculations, etc. But my favorite is still Dan "Fake Steve Jobs" Lyons' analogy.
   

   It's like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they'll run faster.
   

   
   
3. Just after I wrote the above bullet. Over the weekend, or actually on Friday. Yahoo's board met and have decided to reject Microsoft's offer stating that they think it should be at least $40/share. Let the bloodshed and stock dumping begin on Monday. Read it on WSJ.
   
   
4. Speaking of merger and acquisition. Rumors are flying around of Salesforce.com approaching Oracle to “to gauge if there is any interest in a sale at $75 a share." Pretty soon, everyone in the Bay Area would be employed by the same company.
   
   
   
5. Apparently, we've got a new tenant in the house. A very small, tiny bugger. I almost got attacked by it when I first spotted it. I don't know much about hummingbirds, but by the look of the bright red neck it was showing me while doing it's hummingbird-hover-in-place maneuver, I'm pretty sure it wasn't a good sign. This is not the first time we've had "guests" in that big bushy plant right in front of our door.
   
   Go over here to see all 3 pictures I took without getting myself injured.
   
   
   
6. Guy Kawasaki recently launched another site, Alltop.com, its tag line is "We've got all the top stories covered all the time". If you don't have enough feeds in your reader or if you're just bored out of your mind, head on over and use it as a jumping board to the vast Internet.
   
   I read about it on Drue's new ValleyZen.com which she also launched recently along with Bill Fenwick, the founder of Fenwick & West law firm. On the post, she also has 2 very insightful videos of her exclusive interview with Guy.
   
   Jean and I met Drue few months back at a Dan "Fake Steve Jobs" Lyons event in Mountain View where, with my amateur photographer skill, I took this photo of her and Guy.
   
   Photo from Drue's site.
   
   
   
7. Heard of "Can Google Hear Me" or Aaron Stanton?
   
   
   He got lots of publicity last year when he shot a video and set out from Idaho to come to Mountain View, CA to visit Google to see if they'll listen to his idea. The twist is that he didn't have an appointment with Google or know anyone here. But thousands of people on the Internet rooted for him. If I remember right, he did get a meeting with Google.
   
   Since then, he has gotten several independent programmers around the world to help out on the team. But he still has not shared with the public what the idea is, except for a group of alpha/beta testers. Which I'm part of , but of course, I can't share his idea here either.
   
   This weekend, him and his team of 4 are heading out to Mountain View again and this time to talk to Google, Yahoo and maybe even Amazon, Microsoft? Wish them luck and you can watch his 3 videos and blog on CanGoogleHearMe.com
   
   
8. Something exciting happened last week. I promise I'll share once its concrete and I'll have a blog post about it up soon.
   

Until then...