This could suck ass. The A.V. Club has an interview that they’ve done with Justin Long of the Apple I’m a Mac vs PC commercials. He talked about his work on various projects but the one that we are most worried about are the continuation of the “Hi I’m a Mac and I’m a PC” [...]
If you have been following the Pirate Bay lawsuit in Sweden, then you know they lost. It’s another case of the law not catching up with technology and I think it’s stupid. the founders of the Pirate Bay, who definitely have a revolutionary streak in them, came up with this punishmen…uh…payment method for the law [...]
John Cook on TechFlash asks the question “Did Microsoft overpay for Facebook?” Good question. Calls into account a bunch of figures and possible valuations. However, notice that’s not what I clipped. Facebook has enough cash in the bank– about $200 million — to last for two years, VentureBeat’s Anthony Ha reports. Did Microsoft overpay for [...]
I briefly mentioned Elaine Wherry, a co-founder of meebo, yesterday in my Ada Lovelace Day post. Web chat service Meebo, always innovative with advertising, is trying out something fairly aggressive: full takeover ads that show a persistent advertisement in the background. The company says that they already got 1% or higher click throughs on existing [...]
It seems that I’ve missed Ada Lovelace Day. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Entrepreneurs, innovators, sysadmins, programmers, designers, games developers, hardware experts, tech journalists, tech consultants. The list of tech-related careers is endless. Ada Lovelace Day [...]
Not to feel left out or anything, I want to post that the new iPhone OS 3.0 is going to be announced on March 17th. Personally, I shorted Kimberly Clark stock because of all the fanboys that shit their pants over this announcement of an announcement. We just got the announcement, iPhone OS 3.0 is [...]
Looks like the frogs are on the right track dropping millions in licensing fees and switching to OpenOffice.org and open source software solutions. The problem is that I’ve looked on Sourceforge and I can’t seem to find any open source deodorant… A recent report has revealed that France’s national police force has saved an estimated [...]
Ok, I don’t use Facebook and I don’t use Twitter. I’ve flirted with putting an “add to Twitter” button on the blog or a “follow me on Twitter” button but frankly, you guys don’t give that much of a shit about this stupid blog (if you feel differently, Steve, post in the dofollow comments). So [...]
Techcrunch posted today about Jessica Livingston’s book, Founders at Work. The quote below sets up the story. In 2007 Jessica Livingston, a founding partner at Y Combinator, released a book called Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days in which she transcribed over thirty extensive interviews with some of Silicon Valleys most notable successes. [...]
Greg Sterling appears to have broken the news that oodle has partnered with AOL to create AOL Classifieds. Here is a shot of oodles traffic without the juggernaut Craigslist. Cheezhead is also reporting that AOL continues to use CareerBuilder for it’s jobs listings. Cheezhead reports further: The classifieds site, which recently reported an infusion of [...]
Just goes to prove that the old adage is true… While the economy continues to tank, and desktop PC purchases are falling, a new survey from ChangeWave Research says Apple customers are the happiest buyers. Looking at people who bought a computer in the last 90 days, 81% said they were very satisfied with their [...]
I honestly don’t give a rats ass but I knew there was a good title for this post somewhere out of this (too bad I couldn’t find one). Oh and basically, GM is ditching Saturn and some dealers are thinking of spinning it off into another company and contracting the manufacture to, I’m guessing…GM? Silliness [...]
Big mistake to slam Howard Stern anywhere. I don’t have Sirius, so I have no idea if this guy’s been skewered yet but just read the comments on the piece and it will only get worse. So if Howard Stern loves Sirius XM so much, why doesn’t he buy it? If he can’t swing it [...]
I believe in just a few licenses. I like GPL 2.0, BSD and MIT licenses. Creative Commons is such bullshit that it makes my hair hurtCreative Commons is such bullshit that it makes my hair hurt. You can’t frakkin’ Creative Commons License stuff!! That’s what Copyrights and Trademarks are for. This is a quote from [...]
Michael Gray get’s a little tiresome with the slamming of Google constantly but I am glad that there is a watchdog out there. I totally agree with his position here. I learned quite a few things at SMX West last week, perhaps one of the most irksome was learning Google’s policy about conference presentations. Google [...]
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