8 Ways Facebook May Change Under Mormon Ownership (7)
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The hot, and perhaps somewhat bizarre rumor doing the rounds has the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS, or Mormons) offering to buy Facebook. As Cyndy Aleo-Carreira points out at The Industry Standard, the buy makes some sense when you consider the family networks on Facebook and the Mormons fascination with family history. World wide there’s every chance that your local “family history library” is run by Mormons, and even if you don’t agree with ...
Dream to Reality: How I Quit My Day Job (26)
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Photo via g2slp “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.“ ~ Steve Jobs Ever since ...
A blog post regarding the fact that I'm still retired from blogging (5)
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Couple of quick updates since folks seem a little confused about my where I went and why.I've retired from blogging as per the previous post titled "Official announcement regarding my retirement from blogging" on July 11th. It's been five weeks and I don't plan on coming back to blogging. I've had a wonderful time writing my personal emails to a smaller audience of 4,000 dedicated subscribers. If you would like to join the mailing list ...
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C.K. said:
Jason blogs about how he's still not blogging and about how I proof his emails for him.
Pouring Our Heart Into TechCrunch50 (6)
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TechCrunch50, where fifty new startups (give or take) will launch, is less than a month away. The conference team is fried after reviewing over 1,000 applications from companies preparing to launch. We’ve been interviewing these startups for weeks, often scheduling calls in the middle of the night because there just weren’t enough business hours to schedule everyone in. The NYTimes is featuring the conference in today’s paper. They’re focusing on the tension between our conference ...
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Robert Scoble said:
Arrington and crew deserve a lot of credit here. They've gone through 1,000 companies (I know a few of them, cause they asked me to hold some videos that we had going). I'm so happy I got to relax a bit this past month. Next month, though, is very busy. Starting this week when we go to Gnomedex.
Paleo-Future: RCA's Two Thousand (1969) (4)
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Remember when adding "2000" to a product name was shorthand for futuristic, cutting-edge technology?In 1969 RCA invited the American public to "take a leap into the year 2000" with a new television set called The Two Thousand. Selling a limited edition of 2,000 sets at $2,000 a pop, (about $12,000 in 2008 dollars), The Two Thousand certainly turned heads. The advertisement above appears in a book about the history of television advertising, Window to the ...
The Next Social Networks Will Not Be Powered By Blog Platforms (7)
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Sarah Perez on ReadWriteWeb today argues that the next social networks will be powered By WordPress and Movable Type. She bases her conclusion on the excellent new release of MovableType that delivers a full social networking solution, and Automattic’s Buddypress acquisition for WordPress, a solution that turns WordPress MU into a social networking platform. The offers from both WordPress (WP) and MovableType (MT) are positive steps forward in the evolution of the self hosted blogging ...
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See my latest blog post on OpenMicroblogger :-)
Alexa RIP 1996-2008 (5)
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Unfortunately Alexa didn't make it. After stopping to count again yet again, Dr. Stern did all he could to bring the service back. Rest in peace Alexa, rest in peace.
Geotarding Is As Useful As Llama Spit (10)
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Yesterday evening I wrote a post expressing my more than mild irritation at bloggers who insist in embedding the Hulu player in their posts. My point was that while this might be really cool for readers of the blog who life in the US for the rest of the world it was enough of a turn off to skip right on past ??? not even taking time to read what might actually have been a ...
Web 2.0 University to launch in Australia and NZ (2)
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acidlabs and Hinchcliffe & Company are pleased to announce that they agreed to a partnership that will see acidlabs bring Web 2.0 University to Australia and New Zealand. Web 2.0 University is the world’s leading education service to help business and technical leaders move their businesses into the 21st Century. Web 2.0 University contains practical and hard hitting premium education that delves deeply into the design patterns and business models for taking businesses fully into ...
Psystar "Definitely Still Shipping" Mac Clones (4)
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Preedit writes "Continuing its defiance of Apple, Psystar is reassuring customers that it is "definitely still shipping" its line of Mac clones. And, in a further nose-thumbing at Steve Jobs, Psystar this week said it's now making Leopard restore disks available to its customers, even as Apple insists that Mac clones sold to date be recalled. In its story on the latest developments, Infoweek is reporting that tiny Psystar apparently has no intention of backing ...
'Slow' Light To Speed Up the Net (4)
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JPawlak writes "Researchers believe that it may be possible to increase the speed of the Internet by slowing down certain parts of it by using metamaterials. Metamaterials could be used to replace the bulky and slow electronics that route Internet information, allowing for faster Internet speeds. As data nears its destination, the frequencies must be separated. The light must then be converted into electrical signals, which are stored, routed, and converted back into optical signals. ...
