Morrie the Toupee Salesman

“Greenspan, who presents similar claims to have had an uncredited role in Facebook’s origins, said he has no intention of suing the company. He has, however, plunged into a quixotic and surprisingly adept legal effort to challenge the company’s registered trademark. In addition, he’s using the experience of publicly criticizing Facebook to inform his own […]

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Hacker News might be banning valleywag. Michael Arrington crows. Valleywag is basically a techcrunch competitor. They report on the same companies, the same people. The difference is the editorial slant. Instead of the hushed reverence of the business press, they have a tabloid mentality. So basically they’re being banned not for their content, or for […]

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Reading this article in the NYT one thing jumped right out me. No, not the intergenerational shift in news consumption, though that’s part of it. No, not the observation that people in their twenties have way more friends than I do, that’s just common sense. No, it was the sudden intrusion of what’s probably a […]

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“Techmeme is a template for a gazillion me-too bloggers who manage to write a dozen posts a day without ever expressing an original thought. That, depressingly, appears to be a successful business model, at least for now.”
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From one Gary Vaynerchuck. If by “good” he means content-free and by “bad” he means “intelligent,” then I’m 100% in agreement. I’m gonna do the opposite of a hat tip to Scott Beale this time - I want my 2 minutes back, Scott, bill in the mail.

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“It’s clear that the real growth in the Web 2.0 sector is happening outside of the Bay Area”
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9896632-7.html

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I had a minor traffic spike yesterday, unusual since I haven’t posted much lately. I assume it’s because some people out there wanted to see if I had an opinion on the latest digg rumor and the latest Jay Adelson denial of that rumor. On the denial, shouldn’t MS or Google people be denying it? […]

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Love the Dave Winer comment here:
“…At a blogging conference, an open discussion, a young person asked me how much a guy my age could really understand about blogs.”
ex·pe·ri·ence
-noun
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4. knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone:a man of experience.
In my experience (and I have experienced similar comments) arrogance is a […]

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I’ve been building something really dumb Simple-stupid, kind of fun, seductive but with a little hint of guilt to go with it. Sound familiar?
Anyway as part of it I’ve been looking at search APIs. And boy, do they suck. I’m gonna write a little more about that, but one initial impression - these API […]

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Revver’s asking price is between $300,000 and $500,000, as well as the assumption of the company’s debt, which is in the $1 million range, said two sources with knowledge of the negotiations.

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