Tech News – May 15th 2012 to May 22nd 2012
Tech news – May 15th 2012 to May 22nd 2012:
- SpaceX | Launch Central-
- From Twitter – Bloggers How I went from thousands of daily spam comments, to zero! http://t.co/xcRMEUZF via @jimconnolly
- From Twitter – Plex » Plex Media Server v0.9.6.1 http://t.co/XYFGEFpT
- Aaron Sorkin To Adapt ‘Steve Jobs’ for Sony | /Film-
Last year we heard that Sony wanted Academy Award-winning The Social Network/The West Wing writer Aaron Sorkin to write the screenplay for a Steve Jobs biopic based on Walter Isaacson‘s best-selling biography. Sony had purchased the rights in a $1 million deal made just days after the Apple co-founder’s passing on October 5th 2011. Last we heard, Sorkin was “strongly considering” the project. Since then, another movie from an independent producer based on Jobs’ life starring Ashton Kutcher has … show all text - Facebook’s business model – Chris Dixon-
Startups usually succeed because of a single major product or business innovation. Google is unusual in that they succeeded because of two major innovations: their core search product, and their keyword advertising business model. Back in 2000, when Google was wildly popular but generating no revenue, the conventional wisdom was that their business model was uncertain. Then Overture invented keyword advertising and Google adopted the same model. This turned out to be both wildly profitable and … show all text
- GM Says Facebook Ads Don’t Pay Off – WSJ.com-
General Motors plans to stop advertising on Facebook after determining its paid ads had little impact on consumers. The news comes just days ahead of Facebook’s IPO. - Made In New York Digital Map-
- How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet-
Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art. But code is art that does something. It is the assembly of something brand new from nothing but an idea. More » - Quora gets $50 million. Q: Why? A: Because it can… — Tech News and Analysis-
Quora co-founders Charlie Cheever & Adam D’Angelo @ Crunchies 2010
Quora, a Palo Alto-based knowledge (read: Q&A) community has raised a whopping $50 million in Series B funding from co-founder Adam D’Angelo along with Facebook early funder Peter Thiel, Northbridge Ventures and Matrix Ventures. D’Angelo, who was chief technology officer of Facebook, has put $20 million of his own money (big props for that) in Quora while others chipped in the rest. D’Angelo co-founded the company with Charlie … show all text
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