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by bproper 15y ago
So in a scenario where social credit becomes a part of your economic health as an individual, what happens to friends and family that declare bankruptcy? They become some sort of pariah, avoided on Facebook and Twitter?
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LightSqaured Struggles to Save Network After Leaked GPS Report(gigaom.com)
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by bproper 15y ago
Yeah - this is how it works, they appeal the injunction and get a stay. If they can't win their, then they settle.
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by bproper 15y ago
Spolsky's interview technique here is flawless
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Fab Nabs Big Round(online.wsj.com)
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Facebok Quietly Offering Conversion Tracking(techcrunch.com)
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by bproper 15y ago
Why is it praise-worthy to jump the band wagon?
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by bproper 15y ago
Google will catch up, as it did in marketshare. But the cost of Google's open approach, and big gains in smartphone marketshare, is a corresponding growth in its malware, currently growing 4X faster than iOs. http://www.betabeat.com/2011/1
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The Yahoo Lawsuits Begin(allthingsd.com)
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by bproper 15y ago
You need to trick an account into accepting three fake friends, since those users will receive the code to change the password. Hardly seems like obvious security flaw, more like a long, complicated piece of social engineering. Which is wha
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by bproper 15y ago
This is a big part of what startups need to think about from the get go. You can find offers on Craigslist and elsewhere for $500 jobs to clone a Meetup or a Groupon. Typically it's the little companies copying the big ones, not the other w
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Nicholas Carr - The Cloud is a Fickle Mistress(roughtype.com)
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The Hushed Dangers of Startup Depression(betabeat.com)
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by bproper 15y ago
Here's an interview with Chris Dixon on the Ebay purchase. eBay is an interesting challenge because so many of the listings don't have metadata like product IDs. The work Hunch has been doing on the open web is a good fit for this kind of u
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by bproper 15y ago
I think Hunch was actually founded in 2009
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Nick Bilton Interviews Walter Isaacson on Steve Jobs (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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How 125 Days With Spotify Changed My Music Habits(splatf.com)
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by bproper 15y ago
Recruiting has become the most sought after skill among founders and one of the things companies look for as extra value a VC can bring. Not sure there is a good way poach, aside from being a good sport and not rubbing it in. That and follo
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by bproper 15y ago
Unlike Marco Arment and Instapaper, Readability will now give their app away for free. Founding partner Rich Ziade says the company is still "figuring out" their business model. But the parser Readability created under the Apache license is
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by bproper 15y ago
Ironically, the parser developed by Readability under the Apache license is now used by Apple and Amazon. So the technology has gone web scale, even if the business hasn't... http://www.betabeat.com/2011/11/16/readability-focuses-on-fr...
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SOPA Hearing is Streaming Live(judiciary.house.gov)
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First Addition to Apple Board Since Jobs Death: Disney's Bob Iger(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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CNN Reports Diaspora's Ilya Zhitomirskiy Committed Suicide(money.cnn.com)
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by bproper 15y ago
Can anyone from Square or Twitter confirm this work schedule?
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Facebook Will Submit To Privacy Audits To Settle FTC Complaint(online.wsj.com)
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by bproper 15y ago
The reckoning is clearly coming on this industry (daily deals / group buying). Just look at Groupon cutting their IPO in half today. But the way this happened is really terrible. They laid of tons of people with no warning and no severance.
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by bproper 15y ago
I think you're probably right that this kind of inhumane labor extends to all gadgets. The article says as much. But isn't the point that Apple is lionized as a "revolutionary" company and Mr. Jobs as a "genius" and a humanitarian? And BTW,
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by bproper 15y ago
I don't understand how this guy can be so self righteous. If Apple's labor practices are so bad, why doesn't he stop buying their devices?
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The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs(betabeat.com)
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When they launched places, the explicitly copied Foursquare and the check-in model. Zuckerberg named dropped Foursquare at the unveiling of Places. They are now getting rid of Places. From the Foursquare blog post: "As a part of this, we ar

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