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  • How Y Combinator Is Remaking Silicon Valley in Its Image

    Y Combinator put on a tour de force Thursday in Mountain View, Calif. After five impressive years' worth of molding fresh batches of startups, it packed 150-odd people with money into a room and schoo...
  • For ARM, It’s Server Side Up

    If there is one clear beneficiary of the rise of mobile devices - iPads, Androids and iPhones - it is British chip technology company, ARM Holdings. With its stock rising and profits soaring, the low-...
  • The Power Grid Is So Dumb That . . . .

    The power grid is so dumb that a decades-old networking technology, which has disappeared from pretty much all other industries and has 8,000 times less bandwidth of current average networks, is still...
  • Is WikiLeaks More Than Just a High-Tech Brown Envelope? Yes

    The most interesting thing about WikiLeaks and its release of 90,000 secret Afghan documents earlier this week isn't the details of the U.S.-backed war in Afghanistan -- it's what the incident says ab...
  • It’s Too Late for Microsoft To Build Its Own Handset

    Microsoft should be making its own handsets, says Peter Bright of Ars Technica. There's merit in the argument, but it's far too late for such a change. Doing so would cut off hardware partners that al...
  • The State of Mobile Video: Porn, Flash and Stalling

    If you’ve ever been snickering over the latest YouTube viral video on your smartphone in the evening and ended up frustrated by slow load times and a congested network, you’re not alone &#...
  • Spotify in the U.S. Faces More Delays [REPORT]

    We’ve been reading reports tonight that the popular European music service Spotify has hit yet another delay in making an entry in the U.S. market.According to Billboard, Spotify’s negotia...
  • Google Focusing on Checkins with Places API

    Google has indicated it’s going to be working with developers on checkins for location-based applications through its Places API.This spring, Google announced Places as a revamping of its local...
  • Google Search Fully Blocked in China [UPDATED]

    According to several reports and data from Google, the search engine is fully blocked in mainland China as of today.Also fully blocked are ads and mobile access. Image search is partially blocked, as...
  • iPhone App Finds Fun Things to Do Near You

    A Day’s Outing, a website dedicated to helping users find nearby day trips, weekend get-aways or quick excursions across the U.S., has just launched its new iPhone app [iTunes link], making it e...
  • Matters

    Matters Mattters offers easy, single-click access to high quality, real-time, news and stories about the thousands of topics that the major news organizations ignore, but which really, really mat...
  • Urban Spoils

    Urban Spoils All the Best Daily Deals in San Francisco Find the Best Daily Deals in Your City in One Place | | |...
  • Frobee Slideshow Maker

    Frobee Slideshow Maker Create Flash Slideshows the easy way Frobee, crea presentaciones de imágenes de forma simple | | |...
  • PeerIndex

    PeerIndex PeerIndex helps you discover the authorities and opinion formers on a given topic. PeerIndex: Ranking your online influence? | Blog | @peerindex | | |...
  • ManageWP

    ManageWP ManageWP is a WordPress service offering modern technology to manage multiple WordPress blogs from a centralized Dashboard. | | |...
  • Seedcamp 2010

    I had the pleasure of spending all day yesterday, from 9am to 6pm, listening to pitches from the finalists selected out of the mini seedcamps from all over europe this year. Seedcamp is Europe's premi...
  • Startup Showcase

    I want to let everyone know about an opportunity to showcase your startup at Web 2.0 Expo in NYC in late September. On Sept 29th in the late afternoon/early evening, the Web 2.0 conference will have 3...
  • Comment Spam and False Positives

    Every successful social media system I have ever been involved with has to tackle the problem of spam. It is one of signs that you are successful. When the spammers start targeting you, it is a sign y...
  • Sunk Costs

    Today on MBA Mondays we are going to talk about another form of costs; Sunk Costs. Sunk Costs are time and money (and other resources) you have already spent on a project, investment, or some other ef...
  • Angel vs VC?

    AVC regular Charlie Crystle asked me this question yesterday in the comments: Fred, it might be helpful to some of your readers to explain when a startup should seek angel vs seed/early stage VC. If I...
  • Test Drive Your Type With Google Font Preview

    Google launched a new web-based tool Wednesday that helps you configure, test and easily embed one of the company’s free fonts into your web pages. The Font Previewer lets you pick one of the op...
  • Typekit Gets an API

    Font startup Typekit introduced an API Thursday that lets web programmers generate kits from the Typekit library behind the scenes. The company has previously only offered the option of picking fonts...
  • W3C’s Unicorn Validator Checks Multiple Standards at Once

    Want to find out how magically terrible your web code is? Just ask the Unicorn. The web's governing body has launched a new validation tool called Unicorn that checks the quality of your website's cod...
  • Apple Updates Safari, Turns on Extensions

    Apple released an update to its Safari web browser Wednesday. Safari 5.0.1 is available from Apple as a free download for Windows and for Mac OS X (Leopard or better). This is an incremental upgrade,...
  • Second Beta Release of Firefox 4 Arrives

    The second beta release of the next version of Firefox is now available. Download Firefox 4 Beta 2 from Mozilla and test it out. Windows, Mac OS X and Linux builds are available in multiple languages...
  • Maybe This Company Can Predict How Google Me Will Fare

    Interesting investment by Google Ventures in a company called Recorded Future, a wonderful play on verb tenses and words. The company is a "temporal and predictive analysis engine." That just sounds c...
  • Signal Update

    Every day I spend an hour or two curating a set of links that I find provocative, useful, or important, adding a few lines of commentary to boot. It's called Signal, and you can consume it in three wa...
  • CM Summit Sizzle Reel

    I'm proud of the team that put the CM Summit together, and this reel. Well done folks!...
  • This Week In Signal

    For all 186K of you loverly RSS readers, here are the past five Signals: Friday Signal: Is Apple Evil? Is the Web Over? Is Privacy Dead? Is This Thing On?! Thursday Signal: Why I Love My Job, Again. W...
  • What Means This, To "Go Google"!?

    I thought it meant to search! Apparently, in this context, it means "to drop Microsoft Office and use our software!" I almost feel like a relic pointing out the obvious, but when I got my latest paper...
  • Nick Carr’s Retreat From the Internet Continues

    I’ll admit it — I’ve kind of missed Nick Carr, and his dyspeptic blog Rough Type. After he started on his latest book, he went on a blogging hiatus, and I kind of missed reading his...
  • The Agenda on privacy, taped live at mesh10

    There were too many highlights from mesh2010 for me to pick a single one, but among the top moments on any list was the taping of a live version of TVO’s The Agenda with the always excellent Ste...
  • Me on The Agenda: The iPad and the Future of Media

    I spent last Friday in a windowless room with a bunch of men wearing a lot of pancake makeup, but it was a lot more fun than it sounds — I was taping an episode of TVO’s great show The Age...
  • mesh media keynote: Chris Thorpe

    If you’re interested in the future of media, you’re going to want to be at mesh 2010 on May 18 and 19 for our media keynote: Chris Thorpe. Chris comes to us from The Guardian, one of Brita...
  • Come On Nick, You Can Do Better Than That

    Choire Sicha, former editor of Gawker and now co-founder of The Awl, points out that the Gawker offices have a large screen mounted on the wall that shows the top most-read stories on the site in term...
  • Rambler to Merge with Afisha – New CEO Nikolay Molibog from Afisha

    Prof-Media, which owns leading Russian online portal company Rambler Media and entertainment content magazine publisher Afisha, will merge the two companies. The merged company under Rambler shall hav...
  • Last Few Days of Bing Cash Back

    Sadly in just a few days Microsoft’s Bing Cashback program will be closed. The doors on this awesome cash back program will be closed and locked and a sign will indicate that the program is no m...
  • Get Ready NYC…Wireless Signals Coming To NYC Subway

    Back in May we reported from the MTA Unconference regarding MTA Chief Jay Walder’s comments around when cell signals would be available in the subway underground. It looks like major progress ha...
  • Free Bottle of Cold Water With These Job Board Jobs

    Grab a cold bottle of water and check out the latest jobs posted on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the latest Web industry jobs delivered directly to you. F...
  • Tumblr Down?

    It appears that the microblog service Tumblr is currently semi-down as of earlier this morning. Earlier this month several blogs reported Tumblr’s big growth over the past year pushing the micro...
  • YouTube Increases Video Length Limit to 15 Minutes

    YouTube decided to increase the video length limit from 10 minutes to 15 minutes. It may seem like a small change, but YouTube is testing the waters before dropping this limitation."Without question,...
  • Find Blogs Using Google Blog Search

    I remember that someone asked Matt Cutts if Google could restrict search results to homepages. He answered that it's a good suggestion, but adding [-inurl:html -inurl:htm] to your query works pretty w...
  • YouTube's Playlist Bar

    YouTube started to show a persistent bar at the bottom of the page that shows the videos from the active playlist. For example, if you click on a video from your subscriptions, the bar lists other rec...
  • More About Google's Experiments

    A new Google paper gives more information about Google's experiments. Google tests many new features on a subset of users and that's the reason why you may see a different Google search interface, a n...
  • A New Social Google Service?

    There's a lot of speculation about a new Google service called "Google Me" that is supposed to compete with Facebook. Most likely, the service will expand the already existing profiles and activity st...
  • Does adding Twitter to a brand make it cooler?

    Jorge Lorenzo is on top of the world right now. He’s a 23-year-old motorbike racer from Mallorca in Spain and is atop the standings in the MotoGP circuit (he won yesterday’s race in Laguna...
  • Flipboard: A startup’s first bad day or success?

    I’m seeing lots of tweets saying I caused Flipboard to have a bad first day. Why? Because its servers were overwhelmed and it wasn’t letting new users sign up properly and even existing us...
  • What’s more productive? A stream or a page? A debate

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  • First look at “revolutionary” social news iPad app: Flipboard

    You’ve seen Twitter clients like TweetDeck or Seesmic, but you’ve never seen one like this. You’ve seen news readers like NewsGator, Google Reader, or, even, newer ones for iPad like...
  • Rackspace ends cloud lock-in

    I hate lock in. It’s one reason why I have used Wordpress for so many years. With it I can move my blog between hosts and, even, can export my blog to a database and import it into another tool.
  • science.newsriver.org

    Earlier this month I reported on bloggers leaving scienceblogs.org because the publisher sold a presence on the site to bloggers from PepsiCo. One of the rationales for bundling all the science b...
  • Ole and Lena ride again

    Some people don't care for them, but I love Ole and Lena jokes. Here's a good one. Ole was going on a business trip to St Cloud but it was cancelled at the last minute cause the Minnesota Twin...
  • Kindle is OK

    The iPad with its Kindle app got me interested in reading on a tablet again. But it's summertime, and I'd rather read in the park, or on a bench looking out over the Hudson. The iPad doesn't w...
  • We'd probably survive a 500-character limit

    Xcv comments: "At the large tech company I work at there is an internal micro-blogging tool. The limit was recently increased from 140 to around 500. "People are still writing concise things. It...
  • Starbucks' free wifi is the deciding factor

    In the neighborhood around NYU we have a million places to get coffee, and many of them have free wifi. The ones that don't, like Au Bon Pain, which have better food, can't compete. And most of the fr...
  • 5 Time Zone Tools

    One of the problems with working people in other time zones is figuring out whether it's a good time to call them; scheduling meetings can become positively nightmarish if you have participants in sev...
  • Opportunities in the Web Work Revolution

    An increasing number of people are working as freelancers, and employees are switching jobs far more rapidly. How, then, do we migrate the established “rules of work” to this new scenario? And how...
  • Build a Workspace With Glasscubes

    A collaboration tool that doesn't allow you to work on all of these projects separately isn't going to be able to keep up with your company. Glasscubes has solved the division problem by producing a c...
  • The Pivotal Point: Not Giving Up Too Soon

    You've come up with your big idea, and now comes the hard part: Getting the word out about your business and, more importantly, hanging in there while you get the word out about your business. The har...
  • Ricoh’s quanp send: Share Large Files

    quanp is an online file storage service that's backed by Japanese copier giant Ricoh. The company today announced a new quanp send widget for the service that allows users to easily transfer files --...

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