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- Reddit Co-Founders Leave Conde Nast
- Three years after selling their news aggregation site to Conde Nast, Reddit co-founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian are leaving the company. In a blog post, Huffman and Ohanian say that their contracts were up and that they’ve decided to focus on other interests. Christopher Slowe, a third early...
- External links 2009-10-27
- Mexican Drug Gangs Diversify Into Oil
- HOUSTON -- Smuggling billions of dollars worth of narcotics across the Rio Grande apparently isn't enough for Mexican cartels. In recent years, they have expanded their activities in kidnapping, extortion, people smuggling and, of all things, petroleum siphoning. The Mexican state-owned oil monopoly Petróleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, estimates some $720...
- News items 2009-08-11
- Google Reader Updates: Share News on Twitter, Facebook, and More
- Today confirms that Google's not giving up their quest to become more social media friendly. Earlier today they introduced a series of new iGoogle features that make it more of a social network than a start page, and just now they've released an update to your Google Reader to turn...
- News items 2009-08-12
- Google Reader Now Lets You Launch Content to Twitter, Facebook, Digg
- Google Reader is turning into quite the launching pad for helping users share content. Now the service lets users post content to Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Blogger,Delicious, MySpace, Reddit and StumbleUpon. You'll find this capability in the "Send To" feature under the settings page in Reader. As you can see, if...
- News items 2009-08-13
- Reddit's co-founders move on to new pastures
- News items 2009-10-27
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- Wired Digital Acquires Reddit.com
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Wired Digital, the online home of Wired magazine and Wired News, has acquired Reddit.com, a leading social aggregation news site that empowers its users to select and rank web content.
- Research articles 2006-10-31
- Why "Me Too" Startups Are Not Always A Mistake
- The "me too" label has been applied to a past when a company enters a crowded market of highly visible competitors. Examples abound, such as the remote storage category, RSS readers, online calendars, personal website creators, etc. Each of these categories at one time or another was pursued...
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- Why "Me Too" Startups Are Not Always A Mistake
- The “me too†label has been applied to a pastwhen a company enters a crowded market of highly visible competitors. Examples abound, such as the remote storage category, RSS readers, onlinecalendars, personal website creators, etc. Each of these categories at onetime or another was pursued by over a dozen...
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- Massachusetts Ranked #1: Perhaps Entrepreneurs Can Stay East After All
- A little while I ago, I wrote an article on this blog titled "Go West, Young Entrepreneur! Is The Valley Better For Software Startups?." Now, I’ve come across some new information that causes me to reconsider this point of view. Business Week posted an article recently titled...
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- Spider prankster behind McDonald's hoax
- A FAKE memo claiming McDonald's stores deliberately rip off customers has been revealed to be the work of the same prankster behind an infamous email about a seven-legged spider. The document, mocked-up with an official McDonald's Australia letterhead and signed by fictitious managing director "Robert Trugabe", outlines a secret plan...
- News items 2009-10-15
- Facebook, Twitter and Other Social Network Use Soaring in Users Aged 35+
- Forrester Research found that more than four in five U.S. adults online use social media at least once a month, with half engaging friends, family, colleagues and strangers in social network sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Digg and Reddit. Among those people who do embrace social media tools, adults...
- News items 2009-08-26
- The Newbies are Coming
- Back in the days when the Internet was really restricted to us nerds and geeks, people in newsgroups predecessors of chat groups were fretting that easier access to all things online provided then by AOL would result in our world being swamped by the newbies. ...
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- Will the UN Save the World from Asteroids?
- Reuters story on CNN: “An asteroid may come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036 and the United Nations should assume responsibility for a space mission to deflect it, a group of astronauts, engineers and scientists said on Saturday.†In this exclusive post, Fractals of Change takes...
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- Television on The Internet ââ¬" How much Bandwidth is Needed? Where?
- There’s no question about it, watching live video over an Internet connection is not something you want to on a dialup connection. On the other hand, if you receive TV today either over the air the old way, from a satellite dish, or through a...
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- Morph of a Nerd CEO ââ¬" Sick Days are Sick
- Here you are with your own company. You don’t get to write code any more (or you shouldn’t be writing code, anyway). There’s a lot of petty stuff you have to deal with. One of the worst is adjudicating sick days, personal days,...
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- VCs Follow Entrepreneurs
- Both Brad Feld and Fred Wilson have recent posts on their blogs about the availability of a Google CSE for the Venture Capital Network of blogs. It’s a good idea. Not to boast but this capability has been available for My Way, The Entrepreneur’s...
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Truth, Justice, and the American Way
- I was on jury duty yesterday. It’s an encouraging experience, at least here in Vermont. First thing that’s impressive is people’s willingness to do this. In theory it’s not voluntary; you get a summons and you can be fined if you don’t show up....
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ââ¬" Summary for Policymakers
- If you want to get a leg up on most policymakers, a good way is to actually read the “Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changeâ€. The good news is that it’s pretty much written...
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- Startups: Why What You Build Is Less Important Than Who You Build It With
- I’m in the middle of reading “FoundersAt Work†by Jessica Livingston. The book is basically acollection of interviews with founders of some prominent software startups. What I like about the book (I’m about half way through) is that theinterviews are pretty detailed and Jessica does a great job of...
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- Inside Venture Capital: Do VCs Make Less Than You Think?
- For some reason, I find myself reading a fair number of VCblogs. This is mostly out of curiosity. Though Ive neverraised venture capital for a startup before, I find the industry interesting. Whats disappointing about VC bloggers is how few VCsactually write about the internal workings of...
- Blog posts 2007-01-27
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