Jim Breyer: Extra $500 Million Round For Facebook A “Total Fiction”  —  When Facebook announced that Microsoft would invest $240 million in the company, a rumor quickly spread, which we noted, that some hedge funds were about to put in another $500 million.  Since then I’ve been trying …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Erick Schonfeld
Link:   […]

Leopard early adopters suffer for the rest of us  —  I can’t decide whether early adopters are saints or fools.  —  Mac OS X Leopard, the latest version of Apple’s operating system, turns one week old today.  An estimated 9 percent of the Mac OS X installed base had already signaled …

Source:   CNET News.com
Author: […]

Facebook VC: No Rush For More $, Would Work W/Google  —  An update from Facebook investor and board member Jim Breyer: The company doesn’t need to raise more money, won’t go public for at least another 14 months, and isn’t afraid of Google’s OpenSocial platform — and may be willing to join it.

Source:   Silicon […]

Remarks by Tom Curley President and CEO/Associated Press Knight-Bagehot Dinner  —  Madi Reddy is a 22-year-old resident of Hyderabad, India, with ambitions to rise above his hereditary caste.  He’s a newshound, investing time every day turning the news into diagrams on a whiteboard in his small apartment.

Source:   ap.org
Link:   http://www.ap.org/pages/about/whatsnew/wn_110107a.html

NEW: “Google MDS” - Manager Defined Spend  —  This is so new that there is no documentation on this anywhere I can find.  —  My Google team is hot for me to get on this, and I think it’s a great product enhancement.  —  A MDS is essentially a MCC (My Client Center).

Source:   SEO […]

Report: Yahoo exec apologizes to U.S. lawmakers on China  —  A senior executive at Yahoo has apologized for misleading U.S. lawmakers on the company’s cooperation with a request by China for details on a journalist who was later jailed, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday in its online edition.

Source:   Reuters
Link:   http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6216579.html

Become a Del.icio.us Power User  —  As a web developer how we retain, organize, and use information is a high priority.  One web application that has revolutionized the way I retain information is del.icio.us.  —  I originally used it just to save the occasional link.  I realized that it’s much more than that.

Source:   Web […]

The hidden OpenSocial press conference (future of information sharing)  —  Google’s OpenSocial announcement today suggests changes that may improve the future of social networking (click here for Dan Farber’s coverage).  Hidden from view during the press conference, an improvised parallel …

Source:   IT Project Failures
Author:   Michael Krigsman
Link:   http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=463

Sprint Weighs WiMax Unit Spinoff  —  One Option Under Review  —  Is Merger With Clearwire;  —  Plans Likely to Await CEO  —  Sprint Nextel Corp. is weighing changes to its plans to offer high-speed wireless Internet service using WiMax technology, including a potential merger …

Source:   Wall Street Journal
Author:   Amol Sharma
Link:   http://online.wsj.com/article_email…

Google to open Orkut OpenSocial developer sandbox tonight  —  The campfire is burning tonight on the Google campus as the company prepares to launch an Orkut sandbox for working with the OpenSocial APIs.  Developers will be able to register, get the docs and try out their code on the Orkut “container.”

Source:   Between the Lines
Link: […]