2008-01-01から1年間の記事一覧

校正者というジレンマ

The Editor Dilemma (December 29, 2008 Fred Wilson) (This is a translated version of the "A VC" blog post. Thanks to Fred Wilson.) わたしはこれまで完璧な文法、スペリング、言葉遣いをこなせるようになろうと時間をかけて努力したことはない。ほと…

マック・ミニは「おとりで買い替え」の小細工か?

Is the Mac Mini a Bait and Switch Scheme? | The Mac Night Owl (December 25th, 2008 at 6:30 PM Gene Steinberg) (This is a translated version of 'The Mac Night Owl' blog post. Thanks to Gene Steinberg.) かつて、アップルはその製品があまりに高…

ブームタウンがアップルのマックワールド撤収のプレス・リリースをデコードする(「はい、ヴァージニア」版)

BoomTown Decodes the Apple Dumps Macworld Press Release (The “Yes, Virginia” Version) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (Posted at 12:00 AM PT on December 17, 2008 Kara Swisher) BoomTown extends apologies to the late Francis P. Church…

アップル、次回マックワールド・エキスポが最終回、ジョブズの基調講演はない、と告知

AppleInsider | Apple says 2009 Macworld Expo will be its last; no Jobs keynote (Tuesday, December 16, 2008 05:05 PM EST By AppleInsider Staff) Apple announced Tuesday that next month is the last time the company will exhibit at Macworld Ex…

リンクトインのホフマンがCEO役職に復帰、ナイは辞してワイナーが入る

LinkedIn’s Hoffman Takes Back CEO Title, as Nye Departs and Weiner Enters | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (Posted at 3:00 PM PT on December 17, 2008 Kara Swisher) Well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur Reid Hoffman (pictured here) w…

ヤフー取締役タパン・バットとアシュ・パテルがヤフーのオープンとソーシャルの始動について語る

Yahoo Execs Tapan Bhat and Ash Patel Talk About Yahoo’s Open and Social Launch | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (Posted at 2:05 PM PT on December 16, 2008 Kara Swisher) Here’s a video interview I did yesterday at the San Francisco ev…

マイクロソフト営業古参が退職、キ・ルウ招聘後の整理統合の影響か

Microsoft Sales Vet Leaves, After Consolidation Post-Qi Lu Hire | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (Posted at 12:51 AM PT on December 15, 2008 Kara Swisher) In the wake of the changes at Microsoft’s online division, a senior advertisin…

マーク・キュバンがヤフーに肩入れ(あるいはジェリー・ヤンの悪夢)

Mark Cuban Weighs In on Yahoo (aka, a Jerry Yang Nightmare) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (Posted at 3:50 AM PT on December 15, 2008 Kara Swisher) BoomTown, who never met a Yahoo story I didn’t like to write up, is handing over th…

元ヤフー社員が新しいヤフーCEO候補に銘々肩入れする

Ex-Yahoos Weigh in on Their Choices for New Yahoo CEO | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (Posted at 2:00 AM PT on December 13, 2008 Kara Swisher) With so many more ex-Yahoos out there now that the most recent layoffs have taken place, …

Big Canvasの中島聡氏、「ビジネスウィーク」にモバイル・アプリケーションのコスト問題を語る

記事はウィンドウズ・モバイルの話。アンドロイドやアイフォンとくらべてコストがどうか、という内容。 Windows Mobile: What Microsoft Needs to Fix - BusinessWeek (December 11, 2008, 12:01AM EST Olga Kharif) Meanwhile, to win back developers Micr…

ジェシー・ディラン監督「サイエンス・コモンズ」紹介の短篇ヴィデオ

(この翻訳はkeitabandoさんのリクエストにお応えして、とくべつに作成しました。すばらしいヴィデオです) Science Commons » “Science Commons” - a short video by Jesse Dylan 0:01 Web has transformed culture, has transformed the way we do commerce,…

ジェリー・ヤンがレイオフの件でヤフー社員にあてたメモ全文(これから出てくるであろう部分は未掲載)

Jerry Yang’s Entire Memo to the Yahoo Troops About Layoffs (Except Not the Part About Maybe More to Come) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (Posted at 8:55 PM PT on December 10, 2008 Kara Swisher) Here’s Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s entire …

ヤフーがおろおろする間にマイクロソフトがヤフーをつかみ取る: 熊に遭って誰も犠牲にしない方法

Microsoft Mugs Yahoo, While Yahoo Dithers: How to Lose to a Bear and Influence Nobody | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (Posted at 8:05 AM PT on December 9, 2008 Kara Swisher) BoomTown really does hope that in some secret airport hang…

ヤフーCEOのダークホース競走: サリンが登場するも、ほかに要求を満たす人は?

The Dark Horse Race for Yahoo’s CEO: Sarin Emerges, but Who Else Fits the Bill? | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (Posted at 4:39 AM PT on December 9, 2008 Kara Swisher) Earlier this week, in a piece about Yahoo layoffs, BoomTown reit…

ヤフーは水曜日にレイオフに踏み切る: 悲しき詳説

Yahoo Moves Ahead With Layoffs on Wednesday: The Sad Details | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (Posted at 12:00 AM PT on December 8, 2008 Kara Swisher) While there are layoffs all over now, as evidenced by the dismal jobs reports last…

ヤフーCEOカウントダウン、残り26日: チャーニンが辞退し、ダークホース現れる?

Yahoo CEO Countdown, 26 Days to Go: As Chernin Declines, Will a Dark Horse Emerge? | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (Posted at 7:24 AM PT on December 5, 2008 Kara Swisher) With Yahoo board Chairman Roy Bostock reportedly assuring inv…

ブームタウンがマイクロソフトCEOスティーヴ・バルマーの書いた、新しいデジタル・グルのキ・ルウについての社内メモをデコードする(あなたの代わりにやります)

BoomTown Decodes Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s Memo on New Digital Guru, Qi Lu (So You Don’t Have To) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (Posted at 8:18 PM PT on December 4, 2008 Kara Swisher) BoomTown strives to bring readers the very…

ヤフーのテック・スターとよばれたキ・ルウがマイクロソフトのデジタル部門長に来週にも任命される見通し

Former Yahoo Tech Star Qi Lu Likely to Be Named Microsoft’s Digital Head by Next Week | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (Posted at 5:01 AM PT on December 4, 2008 Kara Swisher) Former Yahoo tech star Qi Lu (pictured here) is poised to …

ヤフー取締役会の新しいCEO候補: 委員会はなし、6つの基準、AOL合併の準備完了!

Yahoo Board Casts About for New CEO: No Committee, Six Criteria and AOL Merger-Ready! | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (Posted at 5:00 AM PT on December 3, 2008 Kara Swisher) Now let’s return from the land of fatuous deal schemes and…

メリンダとビル・ゲイツ: 多くの命を救う(3)

Melinda and Bill Gates: saving lives - Times Online (November 29, 2008 Janice Turner) Although her children use public parks and eat in local burger restaurants, mostly unhassled by chilled-out, down-to-earth Seattle folks, the Gateses sti…

メリンダとビル・ゲイツ: 多くの命を救う(2)

Melinda and Bill Gates: saving lives - Times Online (November 29, 2008 Janice Turner) From the birth of their first child in 1996 to their youngest starting full-time school a decade later, Melinda Gates kept a low public profile. She make…

メリンダとビル・ゲイツ: 多くの命を救う

Melinda and Bill Gates: saving lives - Times Online (November 29, 2008 Janice Turner ) If you had married the world’s richest man, how would you live? Perhaps when the private islands, yachts and jets, the parties and Paris couture start t…

「まったくの作り話」: ヤフーの検索を200億ドルでマイクロソフトが買う話はない(少なくとも、まだない!)

“Total Fiction”: There Is No $20 Billion Microsoft Deal To Buy Yahoo Search (Not Yet, At Least!) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (Posted at 9:40 PM PT on November 29, 2008) A report in the Times of London in which Microsoft would bu…

「日本語が亡びるとき」を読んで(12)

しばらく待ってみたところ、わたしの期待していた以上のひとことを言ってくれた方がいた。 その方の見方は、小説としての『日本語が亡びるとき』を読んで、その主人公である「私」が結末の章で思い至ったことが衝撃であり問題となっている、というものだった…

ヤフーは目下インターネットまたは広告の経験がない人物をCEOに求めている

Yahoo Looking At CEOs Without Internet, Ad Experience (November 28, 2008 9:54 AM Henry Blodget) Kara Swisher adds a few more names to the Yahoo-CEO candidate list. The new folks have a lot of management experience, but no Internet or media…

カール・アイカーンがヤフー株を買い進めている、これはCEO選出が近い兆候か?

As Carl Icahn Buys More Yahoo Shares, Is It the Sign That a CEO Choice Is Near? | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (Posted at 2:19 AM PT on November 28, 2008 Kara Swisher) When everyone else has been selling, it seems Carl Icahn has de…

アップル、新MacBookにみられるグラフィックス問題を調査中

AppleInsider | Apple investigating graphics issues on new MacBook lines ( November 26, 2008 03:00 PM EST Sam Oliver) Apple is investigating two separate graphics issues with its new line of MacBook and MacBook Pros, and is reported to be p…

売るか、売らないか--それがツイッターの問題だった(だが答えは正しかったのか?)

To Sell or Not to Sell–That Was the Question for Twitter (But Was Its Answer Right?) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (Posted at 3:51 AM PT on November 25, 2008 Kara Swisher) There are two schools of thought about Twitter’s decision …

ツイッターとフェースブックが遭うとき: 期待も水泡に帰した買収交渉(2)

When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (Posted at 12:45 AM PT on November 24, 2008 Kara Swisher) Lack of revenues was an issue for Facebook, said sources, especially related …

ツイッターとフェースブックが遭うとき: 期待も水泡に帰した買収交渉

When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (Posted at 12:45 AM PT on November 24, 2008 Kara Swisher) About three weeks ago, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious ta…