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Marcus Brauchli, who takes over from Paul Steiger at the helm of the powerful business newspaper, is a noted opponent of the media embargoes that Silicon Valley companies love so much. Valleywag is speculating that the WSJ will lead the charge to end the PR practice of embargoes on press announcements. I think the WSJ [...]
Up until now a lot of the talk about wisdom of crowds has been theoretical in nature, lot’s of sites like Digg claim the title but in reality a very small percentage of the user base ends up steering the market. Cambrian House is a company that aims to put crowdsourcing to work, literally, but [...]
The post is here: 10. We’re all on the same side here. 9. A lower Series A valuation is good for you too. 8. We’re not funding XXXX companies anymore. 7. I liked it. Really. But we just don’t have the bandwidth right now. 6. We don’t do deals we can’t drive to. 5. Come [...]
I remember watching an interview with that Duke prosecutor Nifong last year where he made a point of saying that the case should go forward so that the victim can have her day in court. My reaction at the time was that a prosecutor should know that his client is not the victim; the prosecutor’s [...]
The Google AJAX API team has announced a genuinely useful Feed API that gives an Ajax developer the ability to access feeds, cached in the fast Google edge cache where appropriate, from across the web using a simple JavaScript API. This is similar to Pipes but uses Javascript rather than a visual editor to manipulate [...]
â€Jerry Yang and I just announced at our quarterly employee all-hands that Yahoo! has committed to going carbon neutral this year.” Apparently they are also committed to going profit neutral. “All in all, there didn’t seem to be a lot to get excited about,†said Derek Brown, an analyst with Cantor Fitzgerald. “There was no [...]
NEW YORK — NewsChannel 4 learned of a massive system failure that affected all BlackBerry users in the western hemisphere late Tuesday. The RIM Company, which stands for Research In Motion, developed BlackBerry technology and said its infrastructure failed around 8 p.m. Tuesday and was until about 7 a.m. Wednesday. E-mails were not being pushed [...]
"Intuit is working with the IRS and has notified them that throughput on our electronic filing system was not what we expected, resulting in a system slowdown," the company said in a note on its Web site. "We encourage customers to continue trying to e-file as we continue to work on the issue." Quite honestly, [...]