1 min read · 23 July 2010
This video, reported on by TechCrunch a bit ago, is worth reposting. It was authored by former BestBuy employee Brian Maupin, who nearly lost his job by poking fun at BestBuy's efforts to push its products on users via YouTube. (See TC for more background. Click here for the video). Now Maupin is back with a humorous new skit on the dangers of employer surveillance in the social media age. Sit back and enjoy with a cold cup of coffee. Video after the jump.
1 min read · 22 July 2010
To say that Flipboard -- the new iPad application that ports users’ social media into a sleek magazine-like layout -- was well-received at its launch yesterday would be understating things considerably. Within hours, so many users had tried to download the application that "Flipboard over capacity" became a common, grumbled refrain on Twitter. "It was like trying to get a line of people a mile long through one door," says Flipboard cofounder Mike McCue, who is still known to many in Silicon Valley as the former CEO of TellMe. It's not over yet. I talked with McCue just now about these last 36 hours, and what's next for the company.
9 min read · 22 July 2010
3 min read · 20 July 2010
1 min read · 20 July 2010
Ty Ahmad-Taylor had the kind of career trajectory that anyone drawn to cache and stability might envy, including long stints at the New York Times and Comcast and, most recently, as a senior VP of product development and strategy at MTV Networks. Yet frustrated with what those companies weren’t doing, Ahmad-Taylor chucked it all in late 2008 to form FanFeedr, a startup whose underlying game mechanics are designed to have a meaningful impact on the way that traditional media derives revenue through its audience. Here's the idea:
2 min read · 20 July 2010
1 min read · 19 July 2010
CNet cofounder Halsey Minor has had a tough couple of years, after a lavish spending spree that ended only when everyone began to sue him for the payments owed them. Now Minor, who says his next project centers on pleasure craft called Alpha Yachts, has penned a piece in the Huffington Post, blaming all of his woes on banking institutions. Because Minor himself forwarded it to me -- apparently it was lost in the clutter of Huffington Post's other editorials yesterday -- I'm running it in its entirety. The title is "Why I Fight," though detractors might think it should have been called: "Why I Fight? Because I'm Constantly Getting Sued."
6 min read · 17 July 2010
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