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Fred / A VC:
The Age Question (final post) — So yesterday I pissed off Dave Winer, Scott Karp, Steven Hodson, and a host of others who have weighed in heavily in the comments. — I guess I knew it was gonna happen because I was uneasy about writing the post in the first place.
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Steven Hodson / WinExtra:
Thank you Dave Winer — Getting old is inevitable but to be shuffled to the end of the technology trash heap because of that pisses me off. Normally I don't think too much of my age and how that impacts people's perception of my abilities in our computer world.
Clay Shirky / Many-to-Many:The Future Belongs to Those Who Take The Present For Granted …
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Groundhog Day
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Very Organized Hit Job On LifeLock — Last month I received an anonymous email from a tipster warning me that there was "a scandal about to pop" about an Arizona credit protection startup called LifeLock. The email made a number of serious allegations around CEO Todd Davis …
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David Cowan / Who Has Time For This?:
Bessemer Bamboozled? — Valleywag is delighting in a string of negative press accounts this week about Lifelock, a company we funded late last year. The anonymous online gossip column goes so far as to say that Bessemer and our co-investor Kleiner Perkins Caufied & Byers were shamefully bamboozled …
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Has World of Warcraft (Finally) Hit a Plateau? — After 32 months of continual growth, the largest MMO in the world may, at long last, be peaking. — That's my conclusion, at least, looking at the latest stats from WarcraftRealms.com, a large fansite which tracks and analyzes population statistics and demographics for Warcraft.
Direct2Dell:
Dell's 23 Confessions — Now's not the time to mince words, so let me just say it... we blew it. — I'm referring to a recent blog post from an ex-Dell kiosk employee that received more attention after the Consumerist blogged about it, and even more still after we asked them to remove it.
Miriam Hill / philly.com:
Time for Wi-Fi to sink or sync — Is Philadelphia about to become a wireless heaven, filled with laptop-wielding residents connecting to the Internet on the cheap from home or around town? — Or is the dream announced almost three years ago by Mayor Street to make Philadelphia a "hot city" …
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Wi-Fi Networking News
Steven Levy / Newsweek:
Covering All the Online Bases — The digital business of Major League Baseball started out as a mess. Now it has $400 million in revenue and may revolutionize the economics of the sport. — It's the final inning and the marlins, who have been ahead since early in the game, have seen their lead slip to a single run.
Spencer Kelly / BBC:
Warnings of 'internet overload' — As the flood of data across the internet continues to increase, there are those that say sometime soon it is going to collapse under its own weight. But that is what they said last year. — Back in the early 90s, those of us that were online …
Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:
Dude, would you like a Nokia with that Dell? — Dell now sells unlocked Nokia devices, not the crappy low end stuff either. A quick search yields the following: — Nokia N80: $447.78 — Nokia E61i: $423.77 — NokiaN95: $736.53 — Nokia E61: $383.40 — Well I'll be damned!
Stan Schroeder / franticindustries:
Another 10 web operating systems reviewed — Several months have passed since I wrote my original review of 10 WebOS-type applications. Although Google hasn't really made an (expected) move in this field yet, the topic still spurs a lot of interest, and many new applications have been launched.
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New York Times:
Online Sales Lose Steam as Buyers Grow Web-Weary — Has online retailing entered the Dot Calm era? — Since the inception of the Web, online commerce has enjoyed hypergrowth, with annual sales increasing more than 25 percent over all, and far more rapidly in many categories.
Julian Dibbell / New York Times:
The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer — It was an hour before midnight, three hours into the night shift with nine more to go. At his workstation in a small, fluorescent-lighted office space in Nanjing, China, Li Qiwen sat shirtless and chain-smoking, gazing purposefully at the online computer game in front of him.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ning Rolls Out Facebook App Builder: Embed Your Social Network In a Social Network — Ning, the build-your-own social network startup, will be rolling out a new feature that allows users to create their own Facebook applications around their Ning networks later this evening.
