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- The Superbowl, According to FourSquare
In case you hadnt’ heard, the Super Bowl was yesterday. As a country, whether or not we cared who was playing, or even know the rules, we gather en masse to watch football, drink cheap beer and eat things covered in cheese — not necessarily in that order. It’s part of who we are: what [...] - Gunning for Netflix: Redbox and Verizon to Launch Video Service This Year
This morning, Verizon and Coinstar announced a long-rumored joint venture, combing a new video download and streaming service from Verizon with Coinstar's popular Redbox kiosk rentals of DVDs, Blu-rays and video games. The service will launch in the second half of 2012. - Epicenter on the Air: How The Komen Uproar Saved … Komen
For those of you who weren’t up with the chickens on Saturday, here’s the interview I did with Nancy Cordes on CBS This Morning about Susan G Komen For The Cure’s head-snapping change of heart about Planned Parenthood. For the full story on Komen’s brief odyssey, read Beth Carter’s piece. Komen has since said it didn’t bow [...] - Over 3 Years Later, ‘Deleted’ Facebook Photos Are Still Online
Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic. The company admitted on Friday that its older systems for storing uploaded content “did not always delete images from content delivery networks in a reasonable period of time even though they [...] - Commentary | Scoble: I’ll Go Down With the Ship
I will always love Scoble for who he is, and who he is not. He is a great user. I love users. I named a company after users. Users are everything. The only reason to make software is for users. That’s my basis for respecting Scoble. But I’m not going back to Facebook, no matter what Scoble says. - Mark Zuckerberg, the Hacker Way and the Art of the Founder’s Letter
For a founder of a highly touted Internet company undertaking an IPO, the “Letter to Shareholders” in the S-1 prospectus has become a rarefied form of performance art. Going public is the purest capitalist act — a deep and unambiguous genuflection to Mammon. But a founder’s letter provides an opportunity to explain that while the [...]
