Recent Blog Posts
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A Big Fat Geek Survey
May 25 20123:56 pm EDT -
Phasing Out Instagram
May 25 20122:27 pm EDT -
UberConference Is Victorious!
May 24 20121:49 pm EDT -
Ark Floats, Olive Branch Unseen
May 21 20126:30 pm EDT -
Teach the Internet to Forget
May 21 20124:39 pm EDT -
Microsoft Patent Begs the Question:
Who Needs Developers?
May 17 20123:30 pm EDT -
Mozilla's Monitor-Me-Not
May 17 201211:38 am EDT -
Google's Brain Gets Humanized
May 16 20125:30 pm EDT -
Pandora Demographics Aim Wedding Proposal
May 16 201212:19 pm EDT -
New York Techies Get Mappy Way to Job Hunt
May 15 20122:50 pm EDT
Links
- Engadget
- Pandora
- GigaOM
- USA TODAY Tech
- Somewhat Frank's tech conference list
- BuzzTracker Tech
- The Long Tail
- Tom Foremski
- Roger McGuinn's Folk Den
- John Battelle's SearchBlog
- Mark Cuban's blog
- SciTech Daily
- Romenesko
- Kevin Maney's site
- Steven Johnson
- Marc Andreessen
- TechCrunch
- Fred Wilson
- paidContent
- Spiedies, mmmm
- TechFlash
First Bytes: Microsoft, Yahoo, Blockbuster...
-- Microsoft is chatting with major media companies including Time Warner and News Corp. about a joint deal to to buy Yahoo's search business-and blow the internet company out of the water. And, as it turns out, Yahoo was looking to sell itself to Microsoft after all--for 33 bucks a share just in mid-May after Steve Ballmer withdraw an offer to buy the company. [WSJ]
-- Yahoo shares dropped below $20 for the first time since Microsoft tried to buy the company. [News.com]
-- Activists are challenging Barack Obama's decision to support a bill granting telecom firms immunity from charges relating to their participation in the government's illegal wiretapping program. Related: The ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have sued the Justice Dept. for records detailing how the government tracks citizens through their cellphones. [NYT]
-- Blockbuster doesn't want to buy Circuit City after all. Good idea. [WSJ]
-Sam Gustin
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