things I read yesterday … 06/23/2008

  • Anyone younger than about 30 doesn’t seem interested in having an email address period, let alone caring whether it’s hermanzweibel@rocketmail.com or whatever. My teenaged daughters and their friends never use email anyway — they text message (in which case all you need is a phone number) or they use Facebook messages as a way of communicating. I send them email and they never get it. Do they have email addresses? Yes, and they are a combination of their names, underscores, numbers and nicknames, and so on — and they couldn’t care less.

    tags: mathewingram, ymail, GenY, email

    • Anyone younger than about 30 doesn’t seem interested in having an email address period, let alone caring whether it’s hermanzweibel@rocketmail.com or whatever. My teenaged daughters and their friends never use email anyway — they text message (in which case all you need is a phone number) or they use Facebook messages as a way of communicating. I send them email and they never get it. Do they have email addresses? Yes, and they are a combination of their names, underscores, numbers and nicknames, and so on — and they couldn’t care less.
  • 2006 memo by Brad Garlinghouse re Yahoo being spread too thin

    tags: yahoo, garlinghouse

    • An internal document by Brad Garlinghouse, a Yahoo senior vice president, says Yahoo is spreading its resources too thinly, like peanut butter on a slice of bread. Full text of the document is below.
  • tags: moneyaisle, clblog, financial glossary

    • Education is one of the primary objectives of this blog. Occasionally we will explore and explain commonly used, and often misunderstood, banking terms. We recommend two resources that help define financial terms: Investor Words and Morgan Stanley.
  • Process for funding loans at Lending Club. Describes the relationship between lenders, borrowers, LC and Webbnak. Graphic contained in the Lending Club S-1 filing.

    tags: clblog, lending club, social lending platform