Tech News – September 10th 2012 to September 11th 2012
Tech news – September 10th 2012 to September 11th 2012:
- Nodester :: Side-Project to Acquisition in 18 Months | Geeklist Update –
A Special Geeklist Exclusive Guest Blog post by Chris Matthieu
Nodester :: OpenSource Node.JS PaaSNodester was my third bootstrapped side-project startup to be acquired. I was working for Voxeo Labs, the creators of Tropo – a public/private cloud communications platform, who had acquired my second startup called Teleku. When Node.JS first came out, it was a natural fit for asynchronous communications applications. We started building demo apps using the Tropo APIs with Node.JS but had no whe… show all text
- Carson Daly Tells All About ‘The Voice,’ Its Social Media Clout and ‘TRL’ –
Hours before watching The Voice's season three premiere, host Carson Daly calls himself a "tech geek."
Social media and gadgets like the Apple TV surround him during much of his waking moments — and there's plenty of that no-shut-eye time now after he welcomed a daughter, Etta Jones, to the world last week. Like a newborn's tears on a cheek, parenting apps trickled onto his iPhone to aid in any fatherly woes.
His digital-first mentality to solving problems has seeped into the production of The… show all text - Pinterest Hacked Accounts Spill Spam Onto Facebook, Twitter –
Pinterest users are taking to Facebook and Twitter to complain about their hacked accounts, in what appears to be yet another round of spammers attacking the pinboard-style photo sharing site. In fact, many users are noticing that their friends and followers are pushing Pinterest spam to Facebook (showing up on users’ Timelines and thus friends’ Tickers as well as News Feeds) and Twitter, since users often link the social networks together for cross-posting purposes.A search on Facebook shows show all text
- The Deafness Before the Storm –
The Bush administration was told, as early as May 2001, about the threat of an attack by Al Qaeda. - Catch the Leaders in Digital at Mashable’s Media Summit –
The Mashable Media Summit is a one-day conference that explores how new forms of technology are redefining media. The brightest minds in the industry will come together Nov. 2 at the TimesCenter in New York City to explore the latest innovations in the space and the future of journalism.
Limited early bird tickets are available at a discounted price, so get your tickets now.With a stellar lineup of speakers already confirmed from Facebook, Tumblr, Salon, AQKA, PBS and Hearst, Mashable's Media show all text
- Sound Bites | Disrupt SF 2012 | TechCrunch –
TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news. - depression lies | WIL WHEATON dot NET: 2.0 –
When he was 23, my friend Steve killed himself, and though I don’t think of him every day, I do think of him often, and I wonder what kind of life he’d have now if he’d gotten help for his Depression. Being 40 and recalling being 23, I can’t imagine a person ending a life that is just beginning.
I thought about Steve today when I read Jenny Lawson’s post about suicide and depression.
Jenny says:
Talking about suicide makes me think suicidal thoughts, which is probably one of the stupidest trigg… show all text - Jack Dorsey: We Need Revolution, Not Disruption | TechCrunch –
“We probably need to change the name of this conference,” Twitter and Square co-founder Jack Dorsey said today from the stage of TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. As much as we love this conference, the media — and everyone else for that matter — tends to overuse the word “disrupt” when talking about the potential change inherent in technology. It tends to be used in conjunction with “fluff” rather than the revolutionary. Hard to call the rush to be the Instagram of Video, for example, a “di… show all text - YouTube for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad on the iTunes App Store –
Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about YouTube on the App Store. Download YouTube and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. - 3D printing: Difference Engine: The PC all over again? | The Economist –
WHAT could well be the next great technological disruption is fermenting away, out of sight, in small workshops, college labs, garages and basements. Tinkerers with… - Facebook’s China problem – Fortune Tech –
CEO Mark Zuckerberg would like to reach the country's 513 million Internet users. Too bad local entrepreneurs have beaten him to the punch.
FORTUNE — Last May when Mark Zuckerberg wed his Chinese-American girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, a joke began to make the rounds on China's version of Twitter, a microblog — or weibo — run by the Internet portal Sina. It went something like this: Chan brings Zuck to meet her MORE - Yelp flamewar breaks out over pizza owner’s Obama bearhug | Internet & Media – CNET News –
After Florida pizzeria owner Scott Van Duzer greeted President Obama with a bear hug, his shop became a target on Yelp. Then supporters weighed in. Read this blog post by David Morgan on Internet & Media. - The Engineer Exchange Program « Code as Craft –
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Marc Hedlund, SVP, Product Development at Etsy
Raffi Krikorian, Director, Platform Services at Twitter
Your first week at any new job is (at least if you chose a good job!) filled with tons to learn, new ways of doing things, and working models that you might have considered unattainable in the job you just left. How great would it be to have that experience more than once per new job you take? Twitter and Etsy are working together on a new project to help our engineers learn from e… show all text - Y-Combinator Alum 42Floors Announces $5 Million Series A…Sorta | PandoDaily –
Y-Combinator Winter 2012 Alumni 42Floors set out to “hack commercial real estate…because searching for office space really, really sucks.”
Earlier today, the company posted a job listing to Y-Combinator news network “Hacker News” in which it wrote, “We just raised a $5M Series A (unannounced).” On the jobs section of its website, the company similarly teases, “Series A funded (it’s not announced, but ask us—we’ll tell you).”
I reached out to co-founder Jason Freedman who said that the company is show all text - Plan 9 Alehouse by Aaron Calles — Kickstarter –
Aaron Calles is raising funds for Plan 9 Alehouse on Kickstarter! We are a small brewpub passionate about creating quality craft beer and food, enjoying it with others, and impacting our community. - Mystery Google Device Appears in Small-Town Iowa | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com –
A closeup of the “Pluto Switch,” a mystery hardware device that landed on the edge of Iowa this past winter. Images: networking-forum.com
Photos of the mystery computing device appeared on the web in late February. Taken with a smartphone, they were a bit washed out and a little blurry in places, but you could easily read the name printed on the long, thin piece of hardware. “Pluto Switch,” the label said.
The images were posted by two men who said the device had unexpectedly turned up at a bra… show all text - http://assets.diylol.com/hfs/3f4/047/3d1/resized/the-most-intere… –
- Gyft Is Moving The Plastic Gift Card Industry To Your iPhone | TechCrunch –
Gyft, a new mobile application launching at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, allows you to buy, save and redeem gift cards using your mobile phone. Unlike the numerous mobile gifting applications currently available, Gyft isn’t attempting to carve out a spot for itself in the new “social gifting” market; it’s taking the existing $100 billion market for physical gift cards and moving it to the phone. As co-founder and CEO Vinny Lingham describes it, “we’re focusing specifically on trying to be the mobile … show all text - $15 Off Brochure Packages from Vertical Printing & Graphics –
- IPhone 5 Sales Could Offer Big Boost to GDP – Real Time Economics – WSJ –
The iPhone 5, which Apple plans to release this week, could get credit for something Congress, the White House and Federal Reserve have struggled to do: boost the U.S. economy in a measurable way. - Twitter / VocalMinoritySD: @619sportshow’s this work … –
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- China Plant Again Faces Labor Issue on iPhones –
Labor groups reported that vocational students were being forced to work at plants making iPhones as “interns.” - This is personal: Why my kids and I went to Charlotte — Blog — Barack Obama –
- The Misstep of Quora and The Importance of Trust Amongst Your Community –
You know the old saying about trust … “It takes years to build and seconds to destroy.”
And once destroyed it is very difficult if not impossible to repair. You need to be the guardian of your own reputation. You need to constantly ask yourself whether your actions in rapidly scaling an online community are worth the potential downsides of destroying trust amongst your users.
I talk about this often with startups in which I’m involved. For example, I have had rigorous debates about the need to … show all text - “New And Improved” Hulu Plus For Playstation 3 Is Faster And Easier To Navigate | TechCrunch –
If you’re even a casual gamer, you know that video game systems and platforms have come a long way in the past twenty years. I’m old, so I remember rockin’ out to the Atari 2600, enjoying each and every pixel that passed by on my little TV.
Those days are over, and video game systems like Xbox and Playstation 3 let you enjoy more than just games, including social networking and multimedia content. Hulu Plus has been available on Sony’s Playstation 3 for the past two years, and has launched a new show all text - Skeu It! –
- YouTube Launches Its Own iPhone App With Better Discovery, Social Sharing, Music Videos — And Ads! | TechCrunch –
Last month, news broke that the YouTube iOS app — which had been pre-loaded on all iPhones since their launch — would be taken off the mobile device with the launch of iOS6. And at the time we noted that YouTube would be coming out with a replacement soon — and when it did, the app would have ads and a lot more content. Well, that time is now.
YouTube just announced that it has launched a new official version of its iPhone app on the Apple App Store. The name of the game here is monetization: Y… show all text - Million Cranes for Japan on Vimeo –
- All Hail King Content! Four Startups On the Vanguard of Paid Digital Content | PandoDaily –
It’s hard for people to understand why they need to pay for good online content. Because digital content is freely available on numerous pirating sites or services and there are no physical goods involved, a sense of entitlement seems to have kicked in that says “hell, there’s nothing in my hand! It should be free!” The music industry has battled this problem for years, as has the film industry. But perhaps the industry that has been most effected by this shift to “but why isn’t it free?!” is p… show all text - Skeu It! –
- Nipplegate: Why the New Yorker Cartoon Department Is About to Be Banned from Facebook : The New Yorker –
The New Yorker has a Facebook page for our cartoons, which a lot of you like, or maybe it’s just one person with a lot of time on their hands, liking the page over and over again. But in any case, it’s a whole lotta like. We like that.
What we don’t like is that we got temporarily banned from Facebook for violating their community standards on “Nudity and Sex,” by posting this Mick Stevens cartoon:Hoping to get back into Facebook’s good graces, Mick redrew the cartoon for us, but the gain in… show all text
- American Airlines Gets Full FAA Approval For iPads in Cockpits –
American Airlines has become the first commercial carrier to get FAA approval to use 'electronic flight bags' kitted out with iPads - GoDaddy’s DNS Servers Go Down, Taking Thousands of Sites With It –
GoDaddy, the world's largest domain registrar and one of the biggest web hosts, is experiencing major downtime.
The main GoDaddy.com domain is unreachable and websites hosted by GoDaddy are also down. The more problematic part is that any domain registered with GoDaddy that uses its nameservers and DNS records are also down. That means that even if you host your site elsewhere, using GoDaddy for DNS means it is inaccessible.
On Twitter, Anonymous Own3r — the security leader of Anonymous — is … show all text - Four eyes. Six wheels. One Martian mosaic [pic] on Twitpic –
- Microsoft: This is how Windows RT, Windows Phone 8 devices will be managed | ZDNet –
Summary: The early 2013 of Microsoft's Windows Intune, plus System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1, are keys to the ARM-based device management kingdom. - GoDaddy Outage Takes Down Millions Of Sites, Anonymous Member Claims Responsibility | TechCrunch –
According to many customers, sites hosted by major web host and domain registrar GoDaddy are down. According to the official GoDaddy Twitter account the company is aware of the issue and is working to resolve it. Update: customers are complaining that GoDaddy hosted e-mail accounts are down as well, along with GoDaddy phone service and all sites using GoDaddy's DNS service.Update 2: Anonymous is claiming responsibility. A member of Anonymous known as AnonymousOwn3r is claiming responsibility, a… - GoDaddy is Down, Anonymous Claims Responsibility –
A member of the Anonymous hacktivist group appears to have taken down GoDaddy with a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). The widespread issue seems to be affecting countless … - Seven Ways to Fire up Fierce Loyalty with Sweet Tooth / Sweet Tooth Blog & News | Sweet Tooth – Customer Loyalty & Rewards for Magento –
Every business out there wants one – a Fiercely Loyal community of raving fans who are fantastic customers and raving evangelists. And with a robust customer loyalty program like Sweet Tooth in your pocket, you are way ahead of the game.
Today I want to share seven ideas for leveraging Sweet Tooth, opening up the throttle on it and letting it create the kind of loyalty you know is possible. - 16 free fall Stanford classes that will help you build your business | VentureBeat –
Anyone building a business, listen up: Stanford is offering 16 free, online courses for anyone looking to pick up a few extra skills. The courses include some technology and entrepreneurship-based subjects that could help you get that edge you need.
Stanford University is the institution for entrepreneurship. In its history, the university spit out notable alumni such as Vint Cerf, now vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google, Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, William… show all text - The Journal Register debacle: why Chapter 11 comes before ‘digital first’ | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk –
Touted by industry worthies as the digital future in the making, the Journal Register is more a business of financial engineering
Last November the New York Times' media reporter, David Carr, wrote an enormously laudatory profile of John Paton ("a bearded man with a friendly face"), a financial executive who had just taken the reins at the second largest newspaper chain in the country, MediaNews (with more than 60 papers, including San Jose Mercury News, Denver Post, and Los Angeles Daily News). show all text - This Curation Trend has One Big Problem: Scale | PandoDaily –
Like it or not, the curators are coming. And I'm not talking about the kind that work with Art.sy.The latest wave of curation goes beyond Drudge Report-style link aggregation. It's about ad… - Breakdown: Corporate Social Media Team | Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing –
- Research: The devalued future of IT in a marketing world | ZDNet –
Summary: New research demonstrates the changing role of IT. Here is advice to ensure your IT organization is not marginalized as a consequence of these changes. - A Hacker Brings Down GoDaddy – NYTimes.com –
A supporter of Anonymous, the loose hacking collective, claimed responsibility for an attack that apparently brought down Web sites hosted by Go Daddy. The company's site was down Monday afternoon, as were many of the Web sites hosted on its servers. - LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman Made $111 Million On A $37,500 Investment In Facebook – Business Insider –
In 2005, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman invested $37,500 in a budding college-only social network, he said in an interview at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.
That company was Facebook, and at the time, it was worth $5 million.
Despite the stock's crash, Hoffman's stake is still worth around $75 million, and he sold $36 million in shares at the IPO.
So he made approximately 3,000 times his initial investment.
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Join the conversation abo… show all text - Reid Hoffman On Investing In Facebook Now: He’s Waiting For The Lock-Ups To Pass | TechCrunch –
As one of Facebook's very earliest backers (with a $37,500 investment at a $5 million valuation), LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman sounds neutral on the company for the next six months, but bullish over the very long-haul. At TechCrunch's Disrupt conference in San Francisco today, he said that he's waiting to see how the broader market responds to employee lock-up dates over the next few months. After waiting for as long as four years, employees will finally be able to cash out on their shares … - Mystery Google Device Appears in Small-Town Iowa | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com –
The photos appeared on the web in late February. Taken with a smartphone, they were a bit washed out and a little blurry in places, but you could easily make out the name on the back of the mystery computing device. "Pluto Switch," it said. - After Summer of Turmoil, Oxford American Appoints Roger Hodge Editor – NYTimes.com –
Mr. Hodge, a veteran of the New York media world and former editor of Harper's magazine, replaces Marc Smirnoff, who founded the Oxford American in 1992 but was fired in July. - How To Get Banned From Instapaper –
Instapaper blocked a site from the service over the weekend. What does it mean for the future of read later services?Source: gizmodo.com
If you tried to snag a page from 9to5Mac to read later with Instapaper yesterday, you got this error message:It's the first time I'd ever seen a publisher block Instapaper — in fact, Instapaper says, "As of the time of writing, no major publishers have chosen to opt out." Some publications, like New York Magazine, make it more difficult to use read later… show all text
- Cory Booker’s plan to ‘hack’ politics and disrupt democracy | Internet & Media – CNET News –
'The power of the people is more important than people in power,' Booker said. He's developing #waywire, a social news platform, in hope of changing America for the better more quickly. Read this blog post by Dan Farber on Internet & Media. - That was fast: Amazon is already discounting settling publishers’ ebooks — paidContent –
Just four days after a federal judge approved the Department of Justice’s settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster for allegedly colluding with Apple to fix ebook prices, Amazon has already begun discounting HarperCollins ebooks. For now it appears that Hachette and Simon & Schuster ebooks are not being discounted yet.
“We are happy to again be lowering prices on a broad assortment of HarperCollins titles,” an Amazon spokeswoman told me.
“HarperCollins has reached agreements… show all text - Hugh MacLeod Illustrates The Action Of The First Day Of Disrupt | TechCrunch –
Famous cartoonist Hugh MacLeod will be capturing the essence of TechCrunch Disrupt by putting what is happening on stage into drawings. As MacLeod is interested in startup culture, it is a great match for the conference.In this first batch of drawings, you will see some interesting quotes from Jack Dorsey and general cartoons of disruptors taking the stage. We cannot wait to see what drawings are coming next as the conference continues. Click - Study: Young people consider news to be garbage and lies | JIMROMENESKO.COM –
University of Texas at Austin journalism professor Paula Poindexter has a new book out about the millennial generation’s low interest in news. Here are three points from her press release:
* Millennials describe news as garbage, lies, one-sided, propaganda, repetitive and boring. * Most millennials do not depend on news to help with their daily lives. * The majority of millennials do not feel being informed is important.
“In the future we may not have anybody consuming news,” Poindexter says in… show all text - Cory Booker: “Mark Zuckerberg Is An American Hero” | TechCrunch –
When discussing social media and how he uses it for his political work as mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Cory Booker called out Facebook CEO Mark Zuckberg as an - Reid Hoffman: LinkedIn Got Better When Twitter Shut Us Off, Move Was “Partial Bullshit” | TechCrunch –
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman discussed the removal of Twitter's feeds from its product, even though it was not their decision.Hoffman says at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco that its product is better off without all of the noise that cross-posting from Twitter brought. When Michael Arrington pushed Hoffman on stage to call the move - Visualizing Virality: The xx’s New Album Premieres Through A Single Fan | Co.Create: Creativity \ Culture \ Commerce –
Last Monday, at around noon EST, only one person was listening to The xx’s upcoming sophomore album, Coexist.
Today, through no marketing intervention, the band’s new music is now being heard all around the world. (They have since posted a link on their Facebook page to stream the album.)
While other bands have experimented with social-media-driven record releases, typically those campaigns begin with a big public reveal. In this case, the band originally shared the album with just a single lis… show all text - Dave Morin Says China Is Path’s Second Biggest Country | TechCrunch –
Path CEO Dave Morin offered some updates on the company's growth while on-stagetoday at TechCrunch Disrupt.Version 2.0 of the journaling/personal networking app launched back in November, and Morin said the momentum from that launch has continued in recent months. A lot of the early growth with Path 2.0 was in Japan and Korea, he said, and Path's second largest user base is in China. Things have been picking up in the United States, too, especially in - http://heidicohen.com/how-to-rock-twitter –
- ALL CREDIT CARD PIN CODES IN THE WORLD LEAKED – Pastebin.com –
- Jack Dorsey: We Need Revolution, Not Disruption | TechCrunch –
“We probably need to change the name of this conference,” Twitter and Square co-founder Jack Dorsey said today from the stage of TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. As much as we love this conference, the media — and everyone else for that matter — tends to overuse the word “disrupt” when talking about the potential change inherent in technology. It tends to be used in conjunction with “fluff” rather than the revolutionary. Hard to call the rush to be the Instagram of Video, for example, a “di… show all text
- Dispatch — WE’RE LAUNCHING! –
We’re so excited to announce that today Dispatch is launching at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco!
A smart new way to discuss your stuff in the cloud.
We’re on a mission to help you be more productive by unlocking the power of the cloud services you already love. You can add things from Dropbox and Google Docs into “dispatches”, where you can share and discuss those things with others. The cloud keeps everything you share up to date, and you can preview files without having to download anyth… show all text - Watch TechCrunch Disrupt SF Live! | TechCrunch –
This is it. TechCrunch Disrupt is back in San Francisco and even though the show is sold out, we're still going to bring you all the action on our official Ustream feed and on the site. Disrupt is just too big for one site. Watch TechCrunch's social feeds for even more action! - HP Introduces New Apple iMac –
Hewlett Packard has a long and rich history of innovation in Silicon Valley. As one of the first major computer companies to set down roots there, it has ties with nearly every maker to come after it, even Apple. Founder Steve Jobs famously contacted Bill Hewlett directly to see if he could score some spare parts to build a frequency counter — and ended up with a job there.
That’s why it’s so painful to look at the new line of HP desktops, called Spectre One. The Spectre One desktop, which was … show all text - Toys ‘R’ Us Rolls Out Its Own Tablet – WSJ.com –
Toys R Us said it will start selling its own proprietary tablet designed for children, taking aim at the showrooming phenomenon that is hurting big-box retailers. - Attachments.me –
- EXCLUSIVE: The real source of Apple device IDs leaked by Anonymous last week – Red Tape –
BlueToad.com's CEO, Paul DeHart talks with NBC's Kerry Sanders about a security breach at the company.
By Kerry Sanders and Bob Sullivan, NBC NewsNBC's Kerry Sanders
A small Florida publishing company says the million-record database of Apple gadget identifiers released last week by the hacker group Anonymous was stolen from its servers two weeks ago. The admission, delivered by the company’s CEO exclusively to NBC News, contradicts Anonymous' claim that the hacker group stole the data from… show all text - iPhone design: Documents from the Samsung trial reveal more than ever about Apple’s secretive design process. – Slate Magazine –
Like many of Apple’s inventions, the iPhone began not with a vision, but with a problem. By 2005, the iPod had eclipsed the Mac as Apple’s largest source of revenue, but the music player that rescued Apple from the brink now faced a looming threat: The cellphone. Everyone carried a… - Mural.ly –
- HP revises restructuring figures; now cutting 29,000 jobs | ZDNet –
Summary: Computer maker HP will cut 29,000 jobs — an increase on its first estimate — as the firm continues to cut back on costs as it falls down the PC building market share rankings. - Newspapers get $1 in new digital ad revenue for every $25 in print ad revenue lost | Poynter. –
The newspaper industry’ s effort to cover print advertising losses with digital ad gains, weak in 2010 and 2011, deteriorated further in the first half of this year.
Newspaper Association of America advertising statistics, posted last week, show $798 million… Read more - September puzzler : Earth Matters : Blogs –
- Microsoft goes public with plans for 32 holiday pop-up stores | ZDNet –
- Cory Booker: The Power Of The People Is More Important Than People In Power | TechCrunch –
Newark Mayor Cory Booker took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 in San Francisco. We all know him as the Mayor who has taken Twitter by storm, and also the fellow who has no problem jumping into burning buildings to save people. I’m not kidding.
Our own Josh Constine spoke with Booker, and the pair discussed how much the Mayor has adopted social networks to speak with his community.
In addition, Booker is involved in a project called Waywire, that lets users create content, basically democra… show all text - Jack Dorsey: “I Consider Our Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo, To Be A Founding Member” | TechCrunch –
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 in San Francisco, Jack Dorsey took the stage to give us a 10-minute run-through of how he got to where he is today. I'm not sure that there's enough time in the day to accurately portray the adventures Dorsey have experienced, but he certainly tried. - Troy Hunt: 10 lessons for uncultured web developers –
Who likes being treated like they’re in a minority group? Unless it means you’re in that exclusive group of playboy (or girl) billionaires, “minority group” often ends up with you being unfairly discriminated against because you don’t represent the perceived majority. As with social discrimination, technology discrimination is frequently the product of ignorance; people often don’t understand the impact of their choices.
What a lot of this boils down to is culture, or more specifically, lack of… show all text - TUMBLR FEELING THE HEAT: New York Web Giant Under Pressure To Build A Business – Business Insider –
- Destroyed By Blogs, "Variety" Magazine Will Sell For Less Than $30 Million – Business Insider –
In case you need another example of the digital missile that has slammed into the traditional media world, check out Reed Elsevier's ongoing attempts to sell Variety magazine.
Variety, you will recall, used to rule Hollywood.
Now, its price has been chopped to less than $30 million, Keith Kelly of the New York Post reports.
That's less than AOL paid for a tech blog, TechCrunch, a couple of years ago.
Why have Variety's fortunes deteriorated so badly?
Digital competition.
Specifically, sites like show all text - Google Struggles to Unseat Amazon as the Web’s Most Popular Mall –
As it inches into e-commerce, Google is now charging retailers to appear on its site, a move it says will improve product listings. - Better Answers & How I Learned to Defrag My Brain | Alex Hillman –
Warning: this post ends with a homework assignment.
Steven Johnson is one of my favorite authors. I wish I could remember who introduced me to him so I could thank them. The first book of his I read was The Invention of Air, and his most recent Where Good Ideas Come From.
Where Good Ideas Come From in 4 minutes
Recently, Steven started a series called “The Writers Room”. Truth be told, his last post is nearly a month old but has moved me so hard for the last month that I wanted to share.
Enter … show all text - Instagram is coming to Windows Phone (updated) | The Verge –
Instagram, a popular photo sharing app for iOS and Android, is heading to Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. We're hearing from sources familiar with Microsoft's Windows Phone plans that an… - Is Microsoft forgetting what it knows about security process? | ZDNet –
Summary: With the fight over who can put a browser on Windows RT still simmering away and with Windows RT tablets only a month off, now is not the time for Microsoft to make careless mistakes with Windows 8. - Ben Horowitz: Jack Dorsey Is Eating Payments Through Software | TechCrunch –
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, Ben Horowitz, co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, said that Jack Dorsey and his startup Square are changing the world through software, in the same way that other technology is being disrupted through software innovation. It's part of Horowitz's theory of how - ‘Everything people think they know about the stimulus is wrong’ –
- RidePal, The “Google Bus For The Rest Of Us,” Scores $500K From 500 Startups & Others | TechCrunch –
RidePal, a company providing a turnkey commuter bus system for companies, is today announcing having closed half a million in seed funding from 500 Startups, Amicus Capital, and Jeff Clarke, Chairman of Orbitz. The system, which the company refers to as a - The Startups on San Francisco’s Billionaire’s Row – Businessweek –
"Incubator houses" for entrepreneurs sprout even in the better Bay Area neighborhoods - Obituary: Bill Moggridge, inventor of the first laptop computer | ZDNet –
Summary: Bill Moggridge came up with the clamshell format for the GRiD Compass laptop when attempting what seemed impossible in 1980: design a real computer that would fit in an executive briefcase - U-T Buys North County Times and Californian | San Diego Business Journal –
Douglas F. Manchester and the San Diego Union-Tribune have purchased the North County Times and Daily Californian.
- Do You Have What You Need to Build a Simple Platform? – The Impact Equation –
There’s nothing quite like filling a room with people eager to see what you have to say. You feel quite a giddy energy mixed with the fear that this one time will finally expose you for the fraud your Inner Critic really knows you to be. Above all, you have this feeling that you’d better deliver something of value to the people who’ve turned up to see you. It’s the whole reason to have a platform of value: to serve others.
But how do you do it? With all these tools around, you’re being told a l… show all text - Do You Need To Be A Jerk To Be A Successful Entrepreneur? | TechCrunch –
Editor’s note: Legendary investor Vinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures. You can follow him on Twitter at @vkhosla. And make sure to catch Khosla’s fireside chat at Disrupt SF at 1:55 pm PT on Wednesday.
I recently read Ben Austen’s WIRED article about Steve Jobs, which prompted me to put together my thoughts about the tradeoffs of being a successful entrepreneur. Austen’s article draws a caricature of Jobs and puts forth a series of false choices. After reading it, you might be convi… show all text
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