Google responds to Steve Jobs assertion that they are counting upgrades
Seth Weintraub   •  1 day ago  •   rank: 47548.4
Steve Jobs laid down some not-so-subtle hints that Apple thought Google was cheating in their activations counting in his event presentation today. Google responded, saying: “The Android activation...
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Four Minutes In The Morning
Feld Thoughts   Brad Feld   •  1 day ago  •   rank: 8308.4
Amy and I created a tradition about a decade ago we call “four minutes in the morning.”  We try to – fully clothed – spend four minutes together every morning 100% focused on each other....
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Serious Questions For Super Angels
Brad Feld   •  2 days ago  •   rank: 8304.2
Following is a post on super angels I wrote yesterday for PEHub. In the beginning, there were angel investors. And it was good. As individual angel investors made more and more investments, they...
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Attracting Smart People To Your Community Accelerates Entrepreneurship
Feld Thoughts   Brad Feld   •  4 days ago  •   rank: 8284.3
Entrepreneurial communities grow up around smart people.  Whenever someone in state or local government asks me what they can do to accelerate entrepreneurship, I always tell them to put as much...
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Have We Reached The Software Patent Tipping Point?
Feld Thoughts   Brad Feld   •  3 days ago  •   rank: 829.4
We’ve shifted into a new zone in the world of software patent stupidity.  A few weeks ago, Oracle sued Google over a series of Java-related patents they got when they acquired Sun.  Last week,...
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What Should You Do When Your Web Service Blows Up?
Feld Thoughts   Brad Feld   •  4 days ago  •   rank: 828.9
Every major software or web company I’ve ever been involved in has had a catastrophic outage of some sort.  I view it as a rite of passage – when this happens when your company is young and no...
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More Women In Tech Discussions
Feld Thoughts   Brad Feld   •  4 days ago  •   rank: 828.1
The blogo-twitter-sphere erupted this weekend in response to an article in the WSJ on Friday titled Addressing The Lack Of Women Leading Tech Start-ups. I missed most of it as I was pretty heads down...
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Learning How A Bill Becomes A Law
Feld Thoughts   Brad Feld   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 827.7
Well, I’ve learned a lot about how a bill becomes a law on my journey to try to turn the Startup Visa idea into a law.  And yes – it’s a lot like how I learned about it on Schoolhouse Rock...
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The varieties of social media experience (2)
Glen Campbell   •  4 days ago  •   rank: 119.0
(This is part 2 of a multi-part series; click here for part 1.) The prom queen This individual (and it’s just as likely to be a “prom king” as the queen) is a true social butterfly. Online...
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Digg v4: release, iterate, repeat.
Kevin Rose   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 3.2
At Digg it's our job to try new things, analyze the usage data, iterate, and evolve. While not everyone is happy w/the new design, as of right now the usage looks extremely good (ie. more people...
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Google buys Angstro and hires founder to help build social networking s
Jessica Guynn   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 3.1
Highly respected entrepreneur and Internet researcher Rohit Khare has sold his company Angstro to Google and taken a job at the Internet giant to help build its social networking product Google Me. He ...
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Numerous Users Reporting That Facebook Is Down
All Facebook   Nick O'Neill   •  3 days ago  •   rank: 1.7
Numerous Facebook users are reporting that the site is unavailable. We’ve also been experiencing some significant delays in accessing the site this evening, with areas of the site not responding at...
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atsotsis
TechCrunch   Alexia Tsotsis   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 1.4
The entire Internet (aka Facebook, Google, Apple AOL, Facebook, eBay, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo, and YouTube) has just been served with a vague and vast patent violation suit...
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TechCrunch   MG Siegler   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.9
Earlier today, Erick wrote about Windows Live Sync becoming Windows Live Mesh. Basically, it’s a service that allows people to sync files between PCs and with the cloud. As a product, it sounds...
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Ben Huh Asks: “I Can Haz Reddit?” (Offers To Buy It From Condé Nas
Jason Kincaid   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.9
It’s no secret that social link sharing community Reddit isn’t singing the praises of its corporate parent Condé Nast, which acquired the company in 2006. Earlier today the two sparred over...
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Digg Responds to User Outrage: Upcoming Stories Will Return
ReadWriteWeb   Chris Cameron   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.9
Digg has had one heck of a week. On Wednesday the social news aggregator decided it was a good time to make the switch to version 4 of its platform, which sent servers crashing and drove users...
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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen sues Apple, Google, Facebook, AOL, eBay
Laura June   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.7
Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen has filed suit against nine companies over patent violations. Through his current firm, Interval Licensing LLC, Allen is suing Apple, Google, AOL, Facebook, ebay,...
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Blockbuster's Bankruptcy Could Be the Beginning of the End for DVDs
ReadWriteWeb   Chris Cameron   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.5
For as long as I can remember, Blockbuster Video has been the nation-wide go-to spot to rent movies. Some of my earliest movie experiences as a child involved movies my family rented from Blockbuster. ...
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Sorry Diaspora, Facebook Is Too Big To Fail
All Facebook   Nick O'Neill   •  3 days ago  •   rank: 0.4
The new startup Diaspora, which is being called the “Facebook replacement” by many in the press, is going to fail at displacing Facebook. While the company appeared to be a proper solution back in ...
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Facebook Consolidates Similar Notifications
All Facebook   Nick O'Neill   •  6 days ago  •   rank: 0.4
In the past, Facebook’s notifications have been a continuous stream of updates about who has commented on your posts, who has tagged you in an image, or one of many other notifications. This...
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