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Breaking News: Amazon is Acquiring Zappos
Today, Amazon and Zappos have announced that Zappos will be becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon, to the tune of $880 million in the form of Amazon stock. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has the acquisition announced on the company blog: Over the next few days, you will probably read headlines that say "Amazon acquires ...
End the Email Crazy: GMail Adds Unsubscribe
Back in 1995 or so, I joined a community of websites you may have heard of called Geocities. When they were acquired by Yahoo in 1999 and subsequently integrated with the Yahoo ID system, my login changed from “rizzn” to “rizzn.geo.” My unique ID was apparently a coveted prize, as Yahoo (like most other services) ...
A Panel of Experts Answer Your Blogging Questions [#wcdfw09]
Thanks to Dave Curlee, the videos from last month’s Dallas based Wordcamp are starting to pop up online. The first video to pop up is a panel discussion and Q&A session I participated in with the likes of Cali Lewis, Dave Moyer, Matt Mullenweg, Andy Skelton, Liz Strauss, and Giovanni Gallucci. Part one has us ...
Amazon Fail: 1984 Edition
Let me preface this post with the caveat that should be obvious, but may not be to those not familiar with my editorial history: I’m not anti-business, and I don’t see conspiracy in every shadow. I do, however, take extreme exception to the actions of Amazon this weekend, and particular exception to Andrew Keen’s interpretation ...
Google: Target for Destruction?
Back in May, we talked about then-recent comments by Obama administration appointee Christine Varney and her blatantly anti-Google attitude. We’re forced to circle back around today as Wired gives those who haven’t been following this story a remedial look at the rise of Google and how Varney might attack them. Here’s what our take was ...
HP Acquires Cloud Computer Company IBRIX
Salvatore Genovese at the .NET Developer’s Journal reports today that HP has acquired a cloud computing software company IBRIX: HP and IBRIX announced a definitive agreement for HP to acquire IBRIX, a leading provider of enterprise-class file serving software that includes data protection, high-availability features and data management services for extreme scale-out, cloud and high-performance ...
The End of Moore’s Law and the Law of Accelerating Return
Kevin Kelly at The Technium posted one of his trademark book length blog posts going into extraordinary detail on the nature of Moore’s Law, and what sort of factors behind it are its driving force. He starts the post with a fascinating graphic originally created in 1953 as a part of a research report by ...
Did You Know: Nokia is Getting Boycotted? [#iranelection]
Early last week, I was contacted for comment by FirstPost contributor Alexander Plough with regard to my extensive coverage here and elsewhere on Iran, particularly having to do with the methods that the country was using to censor and crack down on it’s people. I didn’t know the reason for the questions other than perhaps ...
Why the Hand-Wringing over #twittergate? Because We’re Not All Journalists.
Valleywag’s Ben Sheffner asks the question today: “Why So Much Hand-Wringing Over TechCrunch’s Decision to Publish ‘Hacked’ Twitter Documents?” I am genuinely baffled by the journalistic ethics debate over TechCrunch’s decision to publish Twitter corporate documents that were apparently obtained through "hacking" and then forwarded to the Silicon Valley business blog. […] Here’s what I ...
“Silent Giant” Millennial Media is Majority of Mobile Monetization Map
Have you heard of Millennial Media? Chances are you haven’t. Tricia Duryee at Moconews described them as a ‘silent giant in the room’ when it comes to the mobile monetization sector. According to information released earlier today in their ‘SMART’ report, Millennial Media is not just a giant, but the giant, completely overshadowing all the ...
