Just What The Heck Is MonaVie, And Should I Sell It? [MonaVie] (3)
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An anonymous reader asks, I've been approached by a friend to join up with MonaVie acai juice—it's a "superfood" juice that's sold through "network marketing." I actually do like the product, and this is a friend I trust, but my alarm bells are still going off. I don't want to get sucked into a scam, obviously. There's nothing about this company on your site, so I thought I'd drop you a line and see if ...
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Brodie said:
Hey HUW! Remember when we saw the little placard for this weird stuff at The Egg & I? Yep, it's a pyramid scheme. Also doesn't do anything.
Michael Arrington wants you to read about MySpace Music, not his love life [Conflicts Of Interest] (2)
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If you didn't believe our report that TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington is in bed with MySpace's top flack, Dani Dudeck, read the obsessive startup blogger's latest story on MySpace Music, which claims that MySpace has "streamed" 1 billion songs. Considering that most MySpace profiles are set to start playing a song, whether you like it or not, as soon as you visit them, that's not that impressive. Arrington leads his story by comparing MySpace streams ...
Valleywag cuts 60 percent of staff [Layoffs] (15)
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We would never sugarcoat someone else's layoffs. Why ours? Gawker Media, our publisher, has told me to cut Valleywag's costs, in anticipation of an advertising recession. In response, I have laid off associate editors Nicholas Carlson and Jackson West and reporter Melissa Gira Grant. They have all been doing excellent work, breaking stories and needling Silicon Valley. But our ultimate boss, Nick Denton, has decided he can't afford them. Paul Boutin and I will continue ...
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C Yohman said:
Don't worry Muerl. Join me in force, as we bailout America. Through a bipartisan effort, we can save the media, fascists, socialists, Joe Six Pack, Charlie College Elite. Yes can serve America.
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Moah said:
wow. They are so brutally honest about everything. Not sure if mentioning who is laid off is a bit too much.
What’s Your Tweet Worth? Um, . . . Nothing. (17)
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A month ago, I wrote about a company called TwittAd that lets you auction off ads on your Twitter page. Now, the company is sponsoring WhatsYourTweetWorth?, a vanity site where you enter your Twitter name, and it tells you how much your Tweets are worth based on how many followers you have. (Try it later, the site is down—probably being overwhelmed by people who are already Twittering about it). Before it went down, it said ...
All about those benjamins you aren't making by blogging [Blogging For Dollars] (3)
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Want a fantastic formula for a bit of search-engine optimized cash? Drop a bunch of blogger names into a story, add a few five- and six-figured monthly income claims, et voilà! Readers just click, click, click on it, trying to answer the question of "Why can't I make that kind of scratch?" just by being "passionate" with some "thoughts" and "feelings" on the Internet. Slate's story on blogging for real money doesn't tell you how ...
How to keep your company from looking stupid on Twitter [Silicon Valley Users Guide] (12)
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San Francisco-expat turned LA PR pro Jeremy Pepper wrote a long post documenting his exploration of Twitter as a company communications channel with the outside world. The advent of Twitter hasn't changed this much: I can still get paid to take a two page long, rambling essay by an expert and rewrite it to fit on a Post-It slapped to your monitor: DO appear on Twitter as a real person. Be like comcastcares, not Wachovia. ...
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ReducedHackers said:
Okay its RARE that I am sharing a Valleywag story but seriously these are the real simple and all you need rules.
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Foghornboy said:
Tweet-etiquete or just business sense.
Please don't post photos of my wedding to Slide [Max Levchin] (3)
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Slide founder Max Levchin made longtime lover Nellie Minkova an honest woman on Saturday. The ceremony was held at San Francisco's St. Regis Hotel, and featured HotOrNot cofounder James Hong as best man, with fellow PayPal mafioso Peter Thiel another groomsman. Gracious enough for the couple to refuse gifts besides books and wine, considering how many zeros Levchin can count toward his (and now their) wealth. However, rather ironic that the bride and groom asked ...
Where's the Browser Love for K-Meleon? (4)
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Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Browsers There's been more than enough hullabaloo about Google Chrome lately. Hell, Michael Arrington even thinks it's a "Microsoft Killer" and is "nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows." Oh wow.If Chrome is so great, then how is it that K-Meleon beats the pants off it in all my testing? Even as I compose this post in Blogsmith I notice the ...
How to build your brand as an Internet addict [Robert Scoble] (2)
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"The more you participate the more people will subscribe to you ... or like you," promises Fast Company teleblogger Robert Scoble, whose answer to "How do I build my brand?" starts 20 seconds into this one-minute clip. My 15-word version: If you spend all your time on FriendFeed, you'll be a big deal. On FriendFeed.
Blogging For Dollars: Another naked conversation with Scoble (4)
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JAMESON'S IRISH BAR, BOSTON, MASS. — If you'd gotten over that unclothed photo of Robert Scoble and Naked Conversations coauthor Shel Israel, here's a new one to haunt your memories. Scoble, Fast Company's pet videoblogger and social media guru, was in Boston for the EmTech conference, and he wanted to go to a bar. Why? So he could sit at a table and ignore everyone around him, constantly reloading FriendFeed, the Web-activity tracker on which ...
A gigantic picture of Robert Scoble for no reason [EmTech] (1)
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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Fast Company videoblogger Robert Scoble, who has discovered in the Web a popularity which escaped him in high school, has been moderating a panel titled "Web 2.0/Web 3.0 Mashup" at MIT's EmTech conference for the past hour. There are people from Facebook, Six Apart, and Plaxo on stage with him. With no introduction, Scoble launched into a meandering conversation about data portability, online video, URIs, social TV guides, and the Olympics. An ...
Double Cheeseburgerless Dollar Menu Spotted At McDonald's [Dollar Menu] (1)
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You know it was coming and now it's happened to reader Joe. Joe says that his local McDonald's has cruelly taken away both the Double Cheeseburger and the McChicken sandwiches from the cheap-as-hell glory that is the Dollar Menu. Here's Joe's reaction: I'm a resident of Chicago's northwest suburbs and have now ran into atleast 2 McDonald's where the dollar menu no longer includes the Double Cheeseburger or McChicken Sandwich. Both of the items are ...
Chrome's shine begins to dull [Google] (2)
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While Google's new browser Chrome got lots of attention, it hasn't amassed many users. Net Applications tracks browser share across 40,000 sites, and Chrome has at best won around one percent of market share, with usage slipping from 0.85 percent to only 0.77 percent since last week. But hey, it's probably still beating Opera. [ComputerWorld] (Image by Miles Goodhew)
Baskin Robbins Death Shake Has 2,300 Calories [Nutritional Information] (11)
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Please, do not ever buy this 2,300 calorie shake from Baskin Robbins, which contains approximately half a pound of sugar. As Consumerist reader Doug points out, Last time I checked, an adult male should consume 2,500 calories a day, and this shake nearly meets that requirement! The saturated fat present in that shake is over 3 times the RDA of 20 grams, which will put you on the fast track for heart disease. Of course, ...
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John S said:
I'll take two!
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nathos said:
mmmm...Death Shake *drool*
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