Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
A New Kind of Venture Capitalist Makes Small Bets on Young Firms  —  From the day he founded Etsy in 2005, Rob Kalin refused to raise money from venture capital firms to expand his company, which hoped to bring the sale of handmade crafts from small local fairs […]

Angelo DiNardi:
MailWrangler and the Apple App Store  —  So in July I wrote a small iPhone app called MailWrangler.  Basically this app enabled a user to add their GMail accounts (standard and Google Apps For Your Domain) which they could load and switch between them quickly.

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why the Google-Yahoo Ad Deal Is Something to Fear  —  Randall Stross at The New York Times goes to bat for the Google/Yahoo search marketing deal, saying there’s “nothing to fear” from the two companies linking their search products.  I believe most of his analysis is wrong, and he also skips […]

Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Technology Doesn’t Dumb Us Down.  It Frees Our Minds.  —  EVERYONE has been talking about an article in The Atlantic magazine called “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”  Some subset of that group has actually read the 4,175-word article, by Nicholas Carr.  —  To save you some time, I was […]

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
MediaDefender Secretly Sells Porn to P2P Users  —  MediaDefender is widely known for their anti-piracy operations, spoofing and decoying on file-sharing networks for the entertainment industry.  The company is doing more than that though, as we recently found out that adult affiliate programs …

Randall Stross / New York Times:
Why the Google-Yahoo Ad Deal Is Nothing to Fear  —  GOOGLE controls about 70 percent of the search advertising market.  Doesn’t that give it a monopolist’s ability to set prices as high as it wishes?  —  It does not.  Google does not set the prices.  Its advertisers do … […]

Miguel Helft / Bits:
Why Sergey Brin May Have Disclosed His Risk for Parkinson’s  —  Google co-founder Sergey Brin on Thursday disclosed that he carried a genetic mutation that gave him a higher-than-average risk of contracting Parkinson’s disease.  —  When I called medical experts and financial analysts for comment …