Startup Job Site Gets Backing From Y Combinator, Relauches As Startuply (11)
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New Y Combinator startup Startuply launches today. It’s a free job listing service aimed squarely at small startups, which have a lot of trouble getting the attention of new engineering graduates over the noise of the brand recognition and recruiting efforts of larger companies like Google and Microsoft. Startuply is actually a fresh relaunch of Jowba, which originally launched in 2007. Founders Luke Groesbeck, Ben Wong and Loc Ngo took Y Combinator funding, rebranded (they ...
Why Does The Industry Standard Think Podcasting is Failing? (20)
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The short answer is that they want it to fail. There seems to be an underpinning of glee to get to deadpool it, and no one has told them it’s no longer trendy to call podcasting a failure anymore. The long answer has to do with a lot of factors. The subject is brought to my attention by Ian Lamont, who’s written another weekend article that takes a hit out on podcasting as an industry ...
It Appears I Won an iPhone 3G from Social Median! (5)
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Last night was not the kindest of schedules. I had the great opportunity to leave the house and see "The Dark Night" yesterday evening, but the film didn't start until 11:15 p.m. Allowing for previews, credits, and the two and a half hour runtime, it was 2 a.m. by the time the movie ended. Following a quick trip to Safeway, I didn't get home until after 2:30 a.m., finding Sarah stirring, but Matthew, luckily, asleep. ...
Facebook Redesign Beta Now Going Live on Sunday Night (10)
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Although it was announced that the Facebook Profile redesign beta was going live earlier this week, Facebook took a little longer to work out a few extra bugs. In a note to developers tonight Facebook says the beta will indeed start tomorrow (Sunday) evening. Get your apps ready!
Toluu just got better (8)
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Toluu is a one stop social supermarket for discovery of new rss feeds. How Toluu works is quite simple. Once registered, you will import your current OPML file into the system. The service will then search for other users with interests similar to yours. This is almost like a dating service, and will display the best matches accordingly. Toluu is not a replacement rss reader, but rather a type of condiment. This post highlights some ...
Pressflip Is A Belly Flop (15)
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Pressflip is a new blog search engine (it’s actually a relaunch of a site called Persai, which launched earlier this year). The idea is you do a search, train the engine by telling it which results aren’t interesting to you, and then wait for new results to come in over time. The search results aren’t very deep compared to established blog search engines, there’s no RSS for the future search results that I can find ...
twitter downtime during blOgher - not a good idea (2)
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i am sitting at blogher (today finally with twitter equipment), on a great panel i would like to share a lot of. but twitter decided to take a 'short' outtime "Twitter is currently down for maintenance. We expect to be back in a couple hours. Thanks for your patience." currently nearly 1000 women are at blogher, many of them seem to be in love with twitter. they are in media, marketing and more and now ...
[scribkin] Climbing the Long Tail (5)
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The Long Tail The Bell Curve The long tail. For a relatively simple chart, it appears a lot of additional explanation and rumination is needed to really understand it. And of course, what is more illustrative than a helpful chart? Rewind back about 10 years ago, and a similarly iconic graph was getting a lot of attention: The bell curve. Here, too, a relatively simple diagram was tossed out like a life-saver the hapless reader, ...
Vintage cassette tape holds Apple I BASIC, killer modem tune (18)
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Fair warning: this here post is nerdier than usual, and those who begin to feel nauseous at the mere mention of data-bending may want to refrain from continuing on. For you brave, hardened souls that are following through, feast your eyes on the "first piece of software ever sold by Apple." The Apple I BASIC cassette wasn't even included with all of the 200 Apple Is produced eons ago, but a ...
More than dichotomies of the Web (6)
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the topics of yesterday’s blog post, where I fretted about actions and reactions, and a whole bunch of other dichotemies. In the end, however, the thing that bothered me the most was from one of tech blogger Corvida’s recent posts: Disappointments To the people who agree with this bulls*** that [Loren Feldman's] doing, I feel sorry for you. However, I feel even worse for those that won’t take a ...
Twitter Blacklist Closed (5)
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Update: The Twitter Blacklist has been closed down. The final message on the site read: As of July 12th 2008, this service will no longer be available. Dear friends, fans, and foes, Of late I’ve lost confidence in Twitter as a platform. Their uptime is risible; their community interaction questionable. (Think failure to enforce their own TOS - “You must not abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other Twitter users”? Forget it.) I don’t think ...
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Steve said:
Twtr losing support?
Feature suggestion for Twitter (10)
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"Like" Is a FriendFeed feature that Twitter should have. It's a misnomer, it's not about liking something. When you like something that means you recommend it. Everyone who follows you gets the recommendation. How it would work in Twitter. 1. You're reading something I wrote in Twitter. 2. You say you "like" it -- which is like adding it to your Favorites (same UI). 3. It goes on your output stream. All the people who ...
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DOCBook Howto said:
Why not just use openid as your identity management system like identi.ca uses?
Guest post: Is There A Way Back From Free? (5)
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Yesterday, I was privileged to do a guest post for Louis Gray and chose to do something a little bit different and wrote about the issue of whether APIs can be used to generate revenue for services such as Twitter, It was something I had been thinking about for a while but the news that they had throttled the unauthenticated API calls which are the life blood of many third party applications brought it in ...
Now Showing on LouisGray.com, Me! - Regular Geek (6)
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I have been really busy lately, but it is a good busy. I was contacted earlier this week by Louis Gray to write possible guest post on his blog. WOW. For those of you who read this blog and do not know who he is, Louis Gray is one of the hottest “non A-List’ blogs right now. Basically, Robert Scoble has deemed Louis his personal information filter. So I am very pleased to announce my ...
Will venture capital keep flowing and when will new exits appear? (3)
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I visited several venture capital firms in Silicon Valley this week and also met the CEOs of a number of VC-funded companies. Not surprisingly, much of the talk was about the climate and outlook for venture capital, which is the spigot from which much of Silicon Valley drinks. The MoneyTree Survey of venture capital, summarized in GigaOm , shows that total VC investments in the second quarter were basically flat over the last year or ...
