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Because Russian Money is Clearly Worth Less, Somehow

December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Collaboration, Content, Community, The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology, Web/Tech, Work

Link: Russian Facebook Investor Adds Stake in Zynga – NYTimes.com
Digital Sky Technologies, or D.S.T., an investment firm with offices in Moscow and London, is leading a group that is buying a $180 million stake in Zynga, a fast-growing San Francisco company whose online games, like FarmVille, Café World and Mafia Wars, are extremely popular on [...]

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Google vs. the “Tyranny of Data”

May 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Collaboration, Content, Community, Google, The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology

Link: Should Design Be Held Back by a Tyranny of Data?
The Times’ “Bits” blog today chased the two-month-old story of Doug Bowman, who left Google for Twitter in March. Bowman’s story wasn’t particularly remarkable aside from the fact that he has a great reputation and was expected to have quite an impact when he joined [...]

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Blaming the Messenger: Slagging Prop. 8 Donor Mashups

February 7th, 2009 · No Comments · News, The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology

Interesting piece by Brad Stone of the NY Times on Proposition 8 donor mash-ups — sites like eightmaps.com that contain freely-available information on people who donated money in favor of Proposition 8.
Stone goes into near-hysterics in his attack of the site, calling it “controversial and provocative” (even though the site’s display of information could not [...]

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Technology Will Undoubtedly Annihilate Us All And There Is Absolutely Nothing We Can Do About It

August 12th, 2008 · No Comments · The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology

Link: Handle With Care
Last year, a private company proposed “fertilizing” parts of the ocean with iron, in hopes of encouraging carbon-absorbing blooms of plankton. Meanwhile, researchers elsewhere are talking about injecting chemicals into the atmosphere, launching sun-reflecting mirrors into stationary orbit above the earth or taking other steps to reset the thermostat of a warming [...]

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Nonsensical NY Times Story on MSFT/YHOO Integration

February 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Microsoft, The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology, Yahoo

To hear the New York Times’ John Markoff and Matt Richtel describe it in their largely fact-free story on the technical integration that Yahoo! and Microsoft will need to do if the merger goes through, you’d think that a Yahoo-Microsoft integration will amount to a cleaning of the Aegean stables.
The writers did take the time [...]

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Will Success, or All That Money From Google, Spoil Firefox?

November 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments · The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology

Link: Will Success, or All That Money From Google, Spoil Firefox?
"…the Mozilla Foundation has come to resemble an investor-backed Silicon Valley start-up more than a scrappy collaborative underdog. Siobhan O’Mahony, an assistant professor at the School of Management of the University of California, Davis, calls Mozilla ‘the first corporate open-source project.’
The foundation has used a [...]

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Google and Friends to Gang Up on Facebook

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Google, Platforms, The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology, Web/Tech

Link: Google and Friends to Gang Up on Facebook
“On Thursday, an alliance of companies led by Google plans to begin introducing a common set of standards to allow software developers to write programs for Google’s social network, Orkut, as well as others, including LinkedIn, hi5, Friendster and Ning, according to people briefed on the plans. [...]

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NBC To Launch Loathsome, Defective Video Download Service

September 19th, 2007 · 10 Comments · TV, The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology

The other shoe has dropped in the Apple/NBC divorce. NBC announced plans to launch its own online video service this fall (which suggests to me that they’ve been working on the service for some time now — without a doubt they had this plan in their back pockets during their negotiations with Apple).
I can already [...]

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Fixing Typos by Web Users, Without Raising Hackles

July 9th, 2007 · No Comments · The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology

Link: Fixing Typos by Web Users, Without Raising Hackles
"David Ulevitch is trying to turn two numbers into a multimillion-dollar business.
The numbers — each composed of a quartet of digits — are just two of the more than four billion unique identifiers, the street addresses of cyberspace, that permit computers and other electronic devices to find [...]

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Apple Releasing a Windows Browser

June 11th, 2007 · 3 Comments · The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology

Link: Apple Releasing a Windows Browser
"Like many of Apple’s strategic moves, the implication of an Apple browser for Windows was not immediately clear, but it is likely that Mr. Jobs is now plotting a broader business strategy that will allow Apple to grow beyond its niche position in the computer market of about 5 percent."

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