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The Flickr Bogan-Martin Award For “Media Overreaction”
Posted by admin on 07 31st, 2010
One thing you can say about the Flickr team – there’s some fight in ‘em. They apparently were not super pleased with our coverage of their annual (and unofficial) Grant-Pattishall Award given each year to the Yahoo engineer who...
Paul Graham’s Checklist, Wou...
Paul Graham’s Checklist, Would You Make The Cut? [Video]
Posted by admin on 07 30th, 2010
With more than 200 deals since 2005, Y Combinator’s Paul Graham knows how to size up a young team of entrepreneurs. However, he didn’t get it right from day one. On Friday, we got a chance to talk to Graham after his morning panel with...
Chamillionaire Just Wants Your... Posted by admin on 07 30th, 2010
Grammy award winning artist Chamillionaire (a.k.a Hakeem Seriki) has become a regular at tech conferences, perhaps because the hustle and flow culture of the rap business and the hustle and flow culture of the tech business are surprisingly similar....
Half Of All Facebook Users Pla... Posted by admin on 07 30th, 2010
Perhaps you’ve heard: social games maker Playdom was acquired by Disney a few days ago for a deal potentially worth north of $750 million . Playdom CEO John Pleasants took the stage today at our Social Currency CrunchUp in Palo Alto, to talk...
Soladigm Smart Window Maker Em...
Soladigm Smart Window Maker Emerges From Stealth, Announces Plan To Build Plant In Mississippi
Posted by admin on 07 30th, 2010
Smart window startup Soladigm announced today its plans to build a factory in Olive Branch, Mississippi. The Khosla Ventures and Sigma Partners backed company makes dynamic glass windows that can be tinted on demand to block excess light and heat....
Blind Item: Which Editor of Va... Posted by admin on 07 30th, 2010
Criticising Valleywag in 2010 is something of a pointless exercise, like offering diplomatic counsel to the Ottoman Empire ten years after the Treaty of Lausanne . More pointless still, attacking the site’s titular editor Ryan Tate is like appealing...
gWallet Looks To Attract New A...
gWallet Looks To Attract New App Publishers With $20,000 Guarantee
Posted by admin on 07 30th, 2010
Online monetization platform gWallet , which offers social gaming developers a variety of ways to monetize their apps and boost engagement, is looking to put its money where its mouth is: the company is launching a $20,000 cash guarantee to any...
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Drunken Tweets To Plummet Tomorrow Night As Twitter Will Be Down
Posted by admin on 07 30th, 2010
Tomorrow night, July 31, Twitter has announced they are having some planned downtime. Beginning at 11 PM PT, Twitter will likely be down on and off for up to 5 hours, Twitter warns. The reason for the downtime? NTT America, Twitter’s hosting...
Rule Your Work Productivity Wi...
Rule Your Work Productivity With RULE.fm
Posted by admin on 07 30th, 2010
It’s takes a certain type of person to get excited about a work productivity tool. Mark Nielsen and Patrick Carmitchel , unsatisfied with 37Signals ‘ Basecamp, have decided to disrupt the productivity software industry (see their incredibly...
InMobi Wants The World With It...
InMobi Wants The World With Its Mobile Ads, Not Just The U.S.
Posted by admin on 07 30th, 2010
Today at our Social Currency CrunchUp in Palo Alto, CA, James Lamberti, VP of Global Research and Marketing for InMobi , sat down with our Michael Arrington to tell us a bit about mobile advertising. InMobi is the largest independent mobile...
Google: There Have To Be Yelps... Posted by admin on 07 30th, 2010
Today during our Social Currency CrunchUp , Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman and John Hanke, a Google VP of Product Management, took the stage. Given that the two companies seem to be at odds with one another recently (following a failed acquisition...
Before There Can Be An IPO, Fi...
Before There Can Be An IPO, First Comes A New CFO For Zynga
Posted by admin on 07 30th, 2010
Social gaming company Zynga is growing at a rapid clip. More importantly, their revenue is growing at a rapid clip . And they need a big gun to handle that. They believe they’ve just got him: Dave Wehner , formerly a managing director at Allen...
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Grammy award winning artist Chamillionaire (a.k.a Hakeem Seriki) has become a regular at tech conferences, perhaps because the hustle and flow culture of the rap business and the hustle and flow culture of the tech business are surprisingly similar. His stories of struggles between artists and music...
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By Chris Scott Barr AT&T has received a lot of grief over their 3G speed and reliability, mostly from iPhone users. Being an iPhone user myself, I tend to agree with such statements. It’s usually not too bad, unless you’re in a crowded area where other people may be sucking up the bandwidth....
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Over the last few years, the web has shown a thirst for time-sensitive deals that offer premium goods at steep discounts. Woot’s one-a-day model has proven immensely popular (Amazon just acquired the company last month), and Groupon has quickly grown into a phenomenal hit. Now AppSumo is looking...
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One thing you can say about the Flickr team – there’s some fight in ‘em. They apparently were not super pleased with our coverage of their annual (and unofficial) Grant-Pattishall Award given each year to the Yahoo engineer who “who breaks Flickr in the most spectacular way.” I’m...