This is all speculation on my part. Not much more than a hunch, or a gut feeling. I do this a lot. I’ve been right before and I’ve been wrong before. Time will tell. But something about the way Twitter sees the Favorite and List functionality has shifted. There’s been a change, and they’re less important as they were before.
Media Bistro’s All Twitter blog goes in for the kill with their hard hitting expose on what’s happened with Favorites and List features.
And Bijan posted recently that he is using an iPhone app called EasySign to sign legal documents when he is out and about. After going through torture this weekend at our beach house to sign docs that absolutely had to be signed by yesterday, I’m searching for something similar on my Android.
Fred Wilson finally defines “torture” for VCs.
The news broke really late, and by that time we were already in the middle of the printing run. There was some discussion and because of the magnitude of the news, the order was given to stop the presses.
Eileen Murphy, VP of Corporate Communications at the New York Times, reminds us that without that order, no one would have been able to corner the collectibles market for Bin Laden-laden newsprint.
Initially when I first read about it, I hated the deal. Now, I don’t like it.
Whitney Tilson, a Microsoft shareholder, on the Skype acquisition, demonstrating that two points make a trend.
This is the state of tech blogging these days. It’s shifting more towards a mixture of quick-posted nonsense and pure SEO plays.
Disclosure: SAI competes with TechCrunch
Business Insider’s (“SAI”) disclosure at the end of its story about Michael Arrington’s conflicts in writing about people he invests in. Or something, I was too busy staring at my naval to read the whole story.
Joining other discarded technologies of late, including the Flip video camera, Kodachrome, and the humble floppy disk is the typewriter, which will no longer be produced anywhere in the world.
Put aside for a second that the main point of the story (typewriters are no longer being produced anymore) is not accurate… I just thought this was the funniest opening line ever.
Facebook, it's time for an iPad app
OH in Palo Alto: “Oh, snap! What a great idea! Why didn’t we think of that?”
It’s already become a cliché to say that change is the only constant, but more than ever, we are living in an age of constant, transformative change.
I know it’s a cliché, but if I admit it in the lede, then it’s OK, right?
What’s fascinating to me is how eagerly all these fabulously wealthy men and women look forward to another term for Obama. He’s going to tax these people until they cry, and then tax them some more. And then I realize, these people aren’t really getting taxed. That’s because they’ve already made their money, and it sits safe and untaxed in whatever investments they’ve chosen.
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