{"id":2183,"date":"2008-01-18T06:05:40","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T13:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/18\/silicon-valley-sightings-the-yahoo-billboard\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T06:06:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T13:06:42","slug":"silicon-valley-sightings-the-yahoo-billboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/18\/silicon-valley-sightings-the-yahoo-billboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Sightings: The Yahoo! Billboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jeremiah_owyang\/2192177033\/\" title=\"Silicon Valley Sightings by jeremiah_owyang, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2367\/2192177033_e6025a06a8.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"365\" alt=\"Silicon Valley Sightings\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yahoo! has a very prominent billboard on highway 80 in San Francisco, (<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;time=&#038;date=&#038;ttype=&#038;q=yahoo+billboard,+sf&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=37.777223,-122.403413&#038;spn=0.000948,0.002511&#038;t=h&#038;z=19&#038;om=0&#038;layer=c&#038;cbll=37.776737,-122.403717&#038;cbp=1,445.8629553297534,,0,-0.27135775776039406\">streetview map<\/a>) right before you cross over the bay bridge (close to the freeway collapse of the Loma Prieta earthquake).  When I go to tech events in the city, I almost always see this sign, it&#8217;s been there for quite a few years.  Reminiscent of a 60s interstate sign you&#8217;d see before getting to Las Vegas, the current special to &#8220;Resolve to LOL more&#8221; plays well to the geeks like myself.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, billboard pricing is much like internet advertising, both measure traffic, yes one measures cars and the other server requests.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>(Silicon Valley Sightings is an ongoing PhotoBlog that captures the intersection of Tech Culture in the San Francisco Silicon Valley Bay Area, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/category\/silicon-valley-sightings\/\">check out the archives<\/a> (which now showcase some tech areas in Asia). All photos by Jeremiah Owyang)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo! has a very prominent billboard on highway 80 in San Francisco, (streetview map) right before you cross over the bay bridge (close to the freeway collapse of the Loma Prieta earthquake). When I go to tech events in the city, I almost always see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/18\/silicon-valley-sightings-the-yahoo-billboard\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Silicon Valley Sightings: The Yahoo! Billboard<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silicon-valley-sightings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}