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Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:
Meet Twitter's Newest Clique: Bloomberg's Terminal Tweeters   —  Until this week, many Wall Street bankers and traders had no access to Twitter.  Despite the fact that Twitter is now where lots of breaking news (including today's jobs day numbers) happens first, most big banks shut off access …
Apr 5, 2013, 4:45 PMIn context
Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:
When Is Sheryl Sandberg Leaving Facebook?   —  It's tempting to read Jodi Kantor's Times story about Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's new Lean In book and accompanying female-empowerment movement as a prelude to a run for public office, and many have done exactly that.
Feb 23, 2013, 5:35 AMIn context
Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:
Why Can't Silicon Valley Take a Joke?   —  Laugh, people!  It's a joke!  —  This is a momentous week for the denizens of Silicon Valley.  Yes, there's an election.  But the real action will be on cable TV, with tonight's premiere episode of Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, a reality series about tech start-up culture.
Nov 5, 2012, 7:20 PMIn context
Lisa Miller / New York Magazine:
Can Marissa Mayer Really Have It All?   —  There comes a moment in every very ambitious person's life when she sees with perfect clarity that the path before her is blocked.  For Marissa Mayer, Google employee No. 20 and Silicon Valley's reigning “geek queen,” this moment occurred last year …
Oct 8, 2012, 12:20 PMIn context
Henry Blodget / New York Magazine:
The Maturation of the Billionaire Boy-Man   —  Incredibly, Mark Zuckerberg has grown up to become an ace CEO—one whose way of thinking might drive Wall Street nuts.  —  If all goes as planned, Facebook will finally pull the trigger later this month on its long-salivated-over IPO.
May 6, 2012, 10:00 PMIn context
Paul Ford / New York Magazine:
Facebook and Instagram: When Your Favorite App Sells Out   —  Facebook, a company with a potential market cap worth five or six moon landings, is spending one of its many billions of dollars to buy Instagram, a tiny company dedicated to helping Thai beauty queens share photos of their fingernails.
Apr 10, 2012, 1:50 PMIn context
Vanessa Grigoriadis / New York Magazine:
Maharishi Arianna   —  Atop AOL, hiring and borrowing freely from the old media, a new age news guru is building her grandest temple yet.  —  On a recent Sunday afternoon, ­Arianna Huffington, the 61-year-old editorial director of the newly merged AOL-Huffington Post …
Nov 21, 2011, 3:30 PMIn context
Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:
Tweet Science   —  Twitter is building a machine to convert 140 characters on Barack Obama, Ashton Kutcher, narcissism, the struggle for human freedom, and Starbucks into cash—and quick, before its moment passes.  Is this asking too much of even the world's best technologists?
Oct 3, 2011, 11:10 AMIn context
Christopher Beam / New York Magazine:
Bubble Boys   —  Out in Silicon Valley, the last bastion of full employment, the Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerbergs of the future are staying up all night writing code in dorms.  —  Feross Aboukhadijeh likes to tell the story of how he got famous.  It happened last fall, as he was beginning his junior year at Stanford.
Sep 12, 2011, 1:55 AMIn context
Paul Ford / New York Magazine:
Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings?   —  I do not enjoy Facebook — I find it cloying and impossible — but I am there every day.  Last year I watched a friend struggle through breast cancer treatment in front of hundreds of friends.  She broadcast her news with caution …
Jul 20, 2011, 5:55 AMIn context

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Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).