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Fred / A VC:
The Age Question (final post) — So yesterday I pissed off Dave Winer, Scott Karp, Steven Hodson, and a host of others who have weighed in heavily in the comments. — I guess I knew it was gonna happen because I was uneasy about writing the post in the first place.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
I did it anyway — Fred Wilson says that kids are net natives, and that people over 30 don't invent new paradigms. To say that ticks me off is an understatement. — I've been a net native since before I was 20. Yes, I read newspapers growing up, but I also blogged before it was called blogging …
Steven Hodson / WinExtra:
Thank you Dave Winer — Getting old is inevitable but to be shuffled to the end of the technology trash heap because of that pisses me off. Normally I don't think too much of my age and how that impacts people's perception of my abilities in our computer world.
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Clay Shirky / Many-to-Many:
The Future Belongs to Those Who Take The Present For Granted: A return to Fred Wilson's "age question" — My friend Fred Wilson had a pair of posts a few weeks back, the first arguing that youth was, in and of itself an advantage for tech entrepreneurs, and the second waffling on that question with idea that age is a mindset.
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Groundhog Day
Muhammad Saleem / Pronet Advertising:
YouTube Mobile Launched - Here's The Scoop — YouTube launched the mobile version of their site today. Here are all the details. — The first thing I saw as I navigated to the site using my BlackBerry 8700g was the following informational warning message: … Since I already have the unlimited plan, I moved forward.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Very Organized Hit Job On LifeLock — Last month I received an anonymous email from a tipster warning me that there was "a scandal about to pop" about an Arizona credit protection startup called LifeLock. The email made a number of serious allegations around CEO Todd Davis …
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Mashable!
Direct2Dell:
Dell's 23 Confessions — Now's not the time to mince words, so let me just say it... we blew it. — I'm referring to a recent blog post from an ex-Dell kiosk employee that received more attention after the Consumerist blogged about it, and even more still after we asked them to remove it.
Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:
Dude, would you like a Nokia with that Dell? — Dell now sells unlocked Nokia devices, not the crappy low end stuff either. A quick search yields the following: — Nokia N80: $447.78 — Nokia E61i: $423.77 — NokiaN95: $736.53 — Nokia E61: $383.40 — Well I'll be damned!
New York Times:
Online Sales Lose Steam as Buyers Grow Web-Weary — Has online retailing entered the Dot Calm era? — Since the inception of the Web, online commerce has enjoyed hypergrowth, with annual sales increasing more than 25 percent over all, and far more rapidly in many categories.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ning Rolls Out Facebook App Builder: Embed Your Social Network In a Social Network — Ning, the build-your-own social network startup, will be rolling out a new feature that allows users to create their own Facebook applications around their Ning networks later this evening.
Julian Dibbell / New York Times:
The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer — It was an hour before midnight, three hours into the night shift with nine more to go. At his workstation in a small, fluorescent-lighted office space in Nanjing, China, Li Qiwen sat shirtless and chain-smoking, gazing purposefully at the online computer game in front of him.
Stan Schroeder / franticindustries:
Another 10 web operating systems reviewed — Several months have passed since I wrote my original review of 10 WebOS-type applications. Although Google hasn't really made an (expected) move in this field yet, the topic still spurs a lot of interest, and many new applications have been launched.
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Louise Story / New York Times:
Yes, the Screen Is Tiny, but the Plans Are Big — More than two dozen huge white satellite dishes surround ESPN's 100-acre campus here, each transmitting and plucking electronic signals from the skies. Tucked inside that digital fence are 10 buildings, all devoted to producing and broadcasting ESPN's cable sports programs.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Sony Connect To Close Music/Video Services; Focus on Servicing Playstation Group; 20 People To Go — The Sony Connect experiment is about get, well, disconnected: it will be winding down its music and video services in the next couple of months, and focus on servicing the Playstation group …
