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by padrack 15y ago
Sponsored stories will begin appearing in the Timeline. That was the intent behind removing the straight chronological river (newsfeed), to be able to place ads into your stream in a way that looks more natural.
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by padrack 15y ago
I think the point is there is a romantic ideal of building product first, just make it cool, no ads, don't focus on revenue. If you need cash, raise a venture round. But that actually puts a lot of strange stresses on a company, because the
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by padrack 15y ago
This list doesn't seem to be about sexiest at all. Just which companies are furthest along and might raise big rounds. Confused.
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by padrack 15y ago
The story conflates the problems with walking dead VCs, many of which were formed during the dot-com bubble, with what is going on in the early stage startup world. There are more deals and more cash going to Internet startups than ever bef
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Google Sues Itself With Help From Intellectual Ventures(betabeat.com)
50 points by padrack 15y ago|27 comments
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by padrack 15y ago
What is wrong with NYU or Columbia? Can they not attract top CS talent?
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by padrack 15y ago
Actually, the point of the piece is he didn't violate policy, Fareed Zakaria changed the rules. But he did lie to the guy from Ignighter. Later, he apologized.
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by padrack 15y ago
Can't you just find your own section of a co-working space and kind of make it the office? This advice doesn't help most startups, who haven't raised big funding.
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A week of global check ins on Foursquare (video)(blog.foursquare.com)
2 points by padrack 15y ago|0 comments
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by padrack 15y ago
I believe under the new law you would need to show you employed your invention as part of a business prior to their filing in order to have a case for prior art.
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Arrington Plays His Nuclear Option Against the NY Times(betabeat.com)
20 points by padrack 15y ago|6 comments
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by padrack 15y ago
So there was no discussion with the startups at GA about the funding?
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by padrack 15y ago
I heard from a few friends at google that there are pretty intense discussions going on right now about what they can demand from their partners. They had to bend over backwards for the carriers and manufacturers at first because they were
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by padrack 15y ago
The debate is very old. But the explosion of news coverage around the word hacker has happened in the last three years.
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The Twitter Addict Who Dreams in 140 Characters(betabeat.com)
17 points by padrack 15y ago|7 comments
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Explaining Google+ To The Norms(betabeat.com)
78 points by padrack 15y ago|40 comments
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Flamers force lawyer to drop application for Bitcoin trademark(betabeat.com)
22 points by padrack 15y ago|15 comments
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by padrack 15y ago
Wait, does Frommer have actual tech skills to build an app? Or this mysterious cooking project...
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The Mainstream Media and That Word: "Hacker"(betabeat.com)
14 points by padrack 15y ago|5 comments
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by padrack 15y ago
Exactly. The price is well above expert estimates. While these tech giants can afford that extra cost, the same tension is playing out for smaller startups that cannot.
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VCs are now selling their ideas to entrepreneurs(observer.com)
55 points by padrack 15y ago|21 comments
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50 Million Myspace Profiles Now Belong to an Ad Targeting Firm(betabeat.com)
44 points by padrack 15y ago|23 comments
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LulzSec's Instant Fame is Bad for Hacker Culture(betabeat.com)
10 points by padrack 15y ago|2 comments