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(Disclosure: I worked for Yahoo! on the FIFAWorldcup.com project in 2006).

First of all, get rid of all the gossip/tabloid fluff (i.e. the Terry Semel Hollywood slant). The lead on the Yahoo! home page right now is a chicken-wing recipe for the Super Bowl, followed closely by a list of videos from American Idol alumni.  Hey Jerry, this country is at war and in a recession! Leave the crap to the “old media” and Perez Hilton and show us some of the innovation that made Yahoo! what it is. Stop trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Respect your audience and imagine that they secretly strive to be more than donut-eating couch potatoes.

Hey Chase, I have a newsflash for you. Lots of people pay their bills during the weekend. Many of your customers have jobs and kids and tight schedules. Sunday is often a good day to take some time, catch up on things. I suppose it’s also a good time for your IT department to sleep in.

I should be more understanding. What do you have ,$60 billion in credit card loans? I guess you can’t afford to have anyone available during the weekend to fix your servers when they go down. Maybe you should let Amazon handle the transactions for your Chase Amazon.com card.

I am unable to continue doing business with you.

Yes, there really is a Philadelphia Pen Show.

One of my new year’s resolutions was to avoid NPR, National Prozac Radio (and the Prozac part is that you need Prozac to keep listening). I turned on the radio this morning Weekend Edition Saturday has host Scott Simon interviewing a band called The Whigs. He explains that they’re from Georgia and they record on the label of “another Southern rocker, Dave Matthews.” I’ve never been a big Dave Matthews fan, but I do remember hearing that he is from South Africa. So, Scott, I suppose you’re right, Dave Matthews is a Southern Rocker technically. My favorite Southern Rockers are Ladysmith Black Mambazo. And nobody defines the West Coast sound like Youssou N’Dor.

Nice going, Adobe. Friday at 11:00am EST is a GREAT time to go down for “scheduled maintenance.”

Have you seen the new Photoshop web site? Who is directing these people, Ed Wood? It’s so obvious that these people are small-time actors and not really web designers, radiologists, etc. You can tell that the way “Adobe Photoshop” stumbles out of their mouths, like they’ve never said those words before. Plus, why are they all hunched forward with their arms akimbo? And why is it that only one person talks for the teams of two? Why not split their lines and have them really look like a team? I’ll admit I haven’t “watched their stories”, so I’m only reacting to the intro videos. However, there’s nothing in the intros that would make me want to watch further.

This is the banner from HireNet systems.

You’ve seen “Coding Horror“? How about Typography Horror?

Nothing says “The future of Internet Recruiting” quite like that New Yorker “Upper West Side” typeface. Very 1920′s.