Facebook raises $150 million more to cash out employees
Facebook has almost finished raising $150 million in capital, in an extraordinary move by the company to buy out shares of hundreds of regular employees. — Hundreds of the Palo Alto, Calif.'s employ...
Live, from Champaign!
Wolfram|Alpha just went live for the very first time, running all clusters. — This first run at testing Wolfram|Alpha in the real world is off to an auspicious start, although not surprisingly, we'r...
Game Web 2.Over?
This collage of web 2.0 logos should be pretty familiar to many people by now. It's been knocking about for a few years, ever since the whole Web 2.0 Koolaid (what's the British equivalent? Ribena?)...
Digg Chief Architect Joe Stump Teams With Social Thing's Matt Galligan To Found Crash Corp.
It must be something in the air. Spring perhaps. But when high level employees start to leave perfectly good startups before a liquidity event, there's usually something pretty important that they t...
First, stop the lawyers
There's some dangerously wrong-headed lobbying from media lawyers in today's Washington Post arguing for new laws to protect old media from new technology. Bruce Sanford and Bruce Brown of Baker Host...
Longer Queries Driving Down Ad Impressions? How About Bankrupt Advertisers?
Comscore has a fascinating post today talking about the relative decline in paid search ad clicks when compared to search query volume in the U.S. Search queries are up 68% in the last year, but paid ...
New Danger Mouse CD Released As A Blank CD-R Due To Legal Fight With EMI
If you follow copyright issues, you're no doubt aware of Danger Mouse. He's the DJ who got quite a lot of attention a few years back for creating one of the very first mainstream mashups — mixing the...
PR Lies Destroy Your Understanding of How Business Really Works. - With Owen Byrne
You know that much of what you learned about how businesses were built is bull, right? It's a collection of anecdotes created by PR people whose job is to promote their clients-not to give us an hone...
Not A Typo: Six Apart Opens Up Suite Of Products For Rival WordPress
Anil Dash, chief evangelist for blogging software platform Six Apart, announced today that blogging platform has launched a a plugin that provides WordPress users with access to a suite of Six Apart's...
Why Twitter's Engineers Hate the @replies feature
Biz Stone, Twitter's , recently wrote in a blog post entitled The Replies Kerfuffle that … As someone whose day job is working on a system for distributing a user's updates and activities to their soc...
Just Browsing? A Web Store May Follow You Out the Door
IF you try on a sweater in a department store dressing room, but choose not to buy it, a persistent sales clerk won't pursue you into the street yelling, “Hey, are you sure?” Nor will you receive a c...
The Rise Of Social Distribution Networks
Over the past year there has been a rapid shift in social distribution online. I believe this evolution represents an important change in how people find and use things online. — At betaworks I am ...
Why Online Video Ads Still Don't Work
From the funny-and-true! department: A biting clip from the dudes at College Humor satirizing the lousy ad options and mind-numbing ad jargon that dominate the online video business. — And a good re...
Google's Gaffes
Two of the Internet giant's open competitions have been mysteriously delayed for months. — What's up with all the brainiacs at Google? — The Internet giant's services went down Thursday, impacting...
Google Outage Shows the Cloud May Not Be Enterprise-Ready
Table of Contents: — Google and other cloud-based services have been experiencing outages of several hours' duration throughout 2009. While that may be fine for members of the general public, who c...
Backed Into A Corner, Child Star Twitter Speaks!
Twitter Inc. broke into the mainstream in 2009 with appearances on everything from the Larry King Show to Oprah — and its usage is exploding. — If it were a celebrity, Twitter would be pursued endle...