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Archive for May 25th, 2008

An Upstart Challenges the Big Web Browsers (Brad Stone/New York Times)

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Brad Stone / New York Times:
An Upstart Challenges the Big Web Browsers  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The browser, that porthole onto the broad horizon of the Web, is about to get some fancy new window dressing.  —  Next month, after three years of development and six months of public testing, Mozilla, the insurgent browser […]

Browsers Are a Battleground Once Again (Brad Stone/New York Times)

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Brad Stone / New York Times:
Browsers Are a Battleground Once Again  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The browser, that porthole onto the broad horizon of the Web, is about to get some fancy new window dressing.  —  Next month, after three years of development and six months of public testing, Mozilla, the insurgent browser developer […]

Open-Source Upstart Challenges the Big Web Browsers (Brad Stone/New York Times)

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Brad Stone / New York Times:
Open-Source Upstart Challenges the Big Web Browsers  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The browser, that porthole onto the broad horizon of the Web, is about to get some fancy new window dressing.  —  Next month, after three years of development and six months of public testing, Mozilla …

Twitter’s business model (Brian Alvey)

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Brian Alvey:
Twitter’s business model  —  I finally figured out a business model for Twitter.  It’s advertising based and it only works if Twitter doesn’t solve their scaling problems.  —  The way I see it, the most the Twitter user base needs Twitter to be running smoothly is about fourteen hours a day.

PR secrets? bulls**t. (Loïc Le Meur/Loic Le Meur Blog)

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
PR secrets? bulls**t.  —  I hate the term “PR secrets”.  It only PR for PR companies trying to sell their expensive consulting to the poor startup CEOs.  Brian Solis has many valid points about PR in this post “PR Secrets for Startups” and he knows what he […]

PR secrets? bulls**t. (Loïc Le Meur/Loic Le Meur Blog)

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
PR secrets? bulls**t.  —  I hate the term “PR secrets”.  It only PR for PR companies trying to sell their expensive consulting to the poor startup CEOs.  Brian Solis has many valid points about PR in this post “PR Secrets for Startups” and he knows what he […]

PR Secrets for Startups (TechCrunch)

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

TechCrunch:
PR Secrets for Startups  —  Editor’s Note: At a time when anyone can broadcast their opinions about your startup to the world, public relations requires a new level of engagement on the part of companies and entrepreneurs.  But what are the new rules of PR?

Resistance Is Futile - IT’S O.K. to liken Shigeru Miyamoto to Walt Disney. (Seth Schiesel/New York Times)

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Resistance Is Futile  —  IT’S O.K. to liken Shigeru Miyamoto to Walt Disney.  —  When Disney died in 1966, Mr. Miyamoto was a 14-year-old schoolteacher’s son living near Kyoto, Japan’s ancient capital.  An aspiring cartoonist, he adored the classic Disney characters.

Welcome to Las Vegas - Home of the technology superpower you’ve never heard of (Ashlee Vance/The Register)

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Welcome to Las Vegas - Home of the technology superpower you’ve never heard of  —  Drive a couple of blocks past the Loose Caboose and the Carburetor Shop on E. Sahara Avenue in Las Vegas, and you’ll find one of the world’s leading technology companies.  The name of the company […]

The Importance Of A Competitive Search Market (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Importance Of A Competitive Search Market  —  Is Microsoft’s vision to compete in search and reinvent itself as an advertising company nothing more than an attempt to get back into its familiar position as Top Gun?  Should Microsoft, Google and everyone else just give up on search and outsource to […]