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"This is all speculation on my part. Not much more than a hunch, or a gut feeling. I do this a lot...."

Tue, 31 May 2011 18:47:13 -0700

“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..."

Tue, 31 May 2011 14:47:29 -0700

“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...."

Tue, 10 May 2011 22:03:10 -0700

“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."

Tue, 10 May 2011 22:03:07 -0700

“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..."

Thu, 05 May 2011 21:07:34 -0700

“This is the state of tech blogging these days. It’s shifting more towards a mixture of quick-posted nonsense and pure SEO plays.”

- Pot, meet kettle

"Disclosure: SAI competes with TechCrunch"

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:47:31 -0700

“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..."

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:00:16 -0700

“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

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:18:01 -0700

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..."

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:57:43 -0700

“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..."

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:01:27 -0700

“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.”

- Michael Arrington auditions for HuffPo’s politics channel.

No. Seriously.

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:10:51 -0700

No. Seriously.

Al Franken's letter to Steve Jobs

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:01:27 -0700

Al Franken's letter to Steve Jobs:

Dear Lorne Michaels: please turn this into an SNL skit where Al Franken plays the role of Al Franken, and someone steals Jobs’ phone in a bar or something. You’re the comedic geniuses, figure it out.

Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:00:44 -0700

Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves:

Sure, the existence of a hidden file on your iPhone (sync’d to your lap/desktop) is a bit disturbing. But the headline on this story is irresponsible. “Apple is recording your moves” implies that there is a server at 1 Infinite Loop overseen by a skinny guy in a black mock turtleneck that’s recording your location data. A more responsible headline would have read “Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? It is recording your moves.”

But hey, maybe we’ll just chalk this up to an attempt at cross-media attention generation. After all, O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference kicked off today with a keynote from Foursquare’s @dens, who gladly reshares your location data that you gladly share with him.

"Maybe we will block content in some countries, but not others. We are occasionally held in..."

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:00:54 -0700

“Maybe we will block content in some countries, but not others. We are occasionally held in uncomfortable positions because now we’re allowing too much, maybe, free speech in countries that haven’t experienced it before.”

- Adam Conner, a Facebook lobbyist, is probably wishing he hadn’t been so free with his own speech to the Wall Street Journal. (And if not, then someone should punch him upside his patronizing head.)

"Twitter allows users to post messages of up to 140 characters in length, and those messages can be..."

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:21:01 -0700

“Twitter allows users to post messages of up to 140 characters in length, and those messages can be viewed by other users. People log on—often through their mobile phones—to track everything from sporting events to transportation delays to natural disasters. Egyptians, for example, used the service to organize revolutionary protests earlier this year.”

- WSJ editor to writer: Add a graf that explains how Twitter works and the last successful revolution it enabled.

"The wedding procession will be streamed live on the Royal Channel on YouTube. Don’t forget to sign..."

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:54:43 -0700

“The wedding procession will be streamed live on the Royal Channel on YouTube. Don’t forget to sign the online guest book! And if you miss it, don’t worry. I’m sure all the good parts will be televised in an endless loop that entire weekend on every TV channel.”

- Erick Schonfeld channels his inner Woodward and Bernstein — they love exclamation points too!

Verizon fired The Verizon Guy via email

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:28:07 -0700

Verizon fired The Verizon Guy via email:

To add insult to injury, the guy now has to wear wire-rimmed glasses.

"Yahoo! Buzz will be discontinued as of April 21, 2011. As of this date, you will be unable to access..."

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:54:26 -0700

“Yahoo! Buzz will be discontinued as of April 21, 2011. As of this date, you will be unable to access the Yahoo! Buzz site. This was a hard decision. However this will help us focus on our core strengths and new innovations.”

- Just as soon as we figure out what those are.

"I always imagine kind of the robot you imagined in the third grade with the boxy body and the..."

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:24:41 -0700

“I always imagine kind of the robot you imagined in the third grade with the boxy body and the antennae arms, standing in front of a keyboard.”

- Emma Carmichael, a writer for Deadspin, imagines what her robocontent competition looks like. Oh, Emma. That’s so cute!

"Stone also notes that, “Twitter has had so many ups and downs you’d think we would have had more..."

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 10:44:22 -0700

“Stone also notes that, “Twitter has had so many ups and downs you’d think we would have had more negative press.” Apparently, he hasn’t been closely reading TechCrunch over the years. While all of us love and are addicted to Twitter, we’ve had dozens of negative stories about the service — and rightfully so. These include stories wondering if yes, Twitter is collapsing. We even had posts with the title “Trouble At Twitter“.”

- MG talks about balanced journalism: there’s love and then there’s the disappointment when someone you love lets you down.