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by bproper 15y ago
people tried cracker vs hacker, but it never caught on. Then techies reclaimed hacker as a positive, even if the media doesn't uses it another way. Now there is hacker, the compliment among engineers, and hacker, the computer criminal in th
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50 Google +1s on sale at SEO shop for $9.99(theatlantic.com)
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Why I Left My Startup Just as We Raised $1.5 Million(joeyevoli.com)
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I think it's that when chasing the next big thing (social networking) you shouldn't ignore the assets at hand and assume M&A is the best route. Google+ will be much better for Google than buying Twitter or Facebook ever would have been.
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Mashable reported that businesses would not be allowed on Google+ back in the first week of July.
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Job Openings for Data Scientists Explode(readwriteweb.com)
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On the other hand, a lot of talented engineers are making the jump from Wall Street quants to early startup employees, and that's a good thing.
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Facebook and the Ephinator: An End to Endings?(nymag.com)
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Yes - A boom implies the rising valuations are justified. In a bubble the rising prices are based on speculation and hysteria. We are not in a tech bubble that resembles the dot-com days. There is a ton of money at the seed and early stage
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Kickstarter Hits 10,000 Successful Projects - $75 Million Raised(kickstarter.com)
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The Life of a Link on Reddit (graph porn)(blog.reddit.com)
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Google+ Already Has 10 Million+ Users and 1 Billion Items Shared(plus.google.com)
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Wired Releases Full Chat Log Between Adrian Lamo & Bradley Manning(wired.com)
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To be fair, Andy Carvin (@acarvin) was spending 20 hours a day on Twitter only when he was covering a revolution.
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I bet Facebook has some kind of trademark on "Credits"
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Scientists Find Crowdsourced Funding for Experiments(nytimes.com)
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Foursquare Partners With Living Social & Gilt Groupe(online.wsj.com)
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Misery loves company
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AP Confirms Photographer Manipulated His Own Shadow(ap.org)
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"Like I could have a friend hole and an acquaintance hole and a K-hole. And they give you a list of friends and you stuff them in the hole, like Silence of the Lambs, except you are sending them images and text messages and hanging out with
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Broken link
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Same team, same investors, same capital. New code, new idea. Uber-Pivot?
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They may end up raising more, but from what I hear, they are choosing VCs based on who can secure them top engineering talent for critical positions, not who cuts the biggest check. That's the lay of the land in Silicon Alley right now. Tec
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Turntable.fm raising $5-10 M. at $40 M. Valuation(betabeat.com)
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I love that a 4 year old news story is on the front page of Hacker news and inspiring a deep discussion.
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Josh is seriously bonkers. If this project works, it will basically have unleashed a super villain on the world. He wants to create a massive attention network that he controls.
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Dan Frommer Quits Business Insider to Start 1 Man Tech Site - SplatF(betabeat.com)
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Zuckerberg has several times, in big mainstream media outlets, tried to define this word and explain the difference between the way it is used within the industry and the way it's used in the press - http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/115
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You can also jump WSJ paywall with a quick copy paste of article title into Google search.
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Cisco Poised to Help China Keep an Eye on Its Citizens (online.wsj.com)
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