Monthly Archives: July 2007

DownloadSquad Discovers Splogs. Welcome to 2005, Guys.

Oh, how positively quaint. DownloadSquad, a fairly prominent blog on the Weblogs Network (featuring posts on free software and downloads) goes on a long rant on – my, how shocking — some blogs are stealing the content on DownloadSquad.com for posting on their own blogs. The author, Gordin Finlayson, even goes to coin [...]

A Backlash Against Facebook Applications Will Come — This is How.

For those who follow popular tech bloggers (and I expect most, if not all of you do, if you’re reading this blog), there have been two interesting posts within the last 48 hours few days or so.
One involves Jason Calacanis who has decided to declare Facebook Bankruptcy over how many people are pinging him via [...]

Stupid Question: When *WILL* Having A Business Plan Matter?

I only ask because, as you may or may not have heard, the ambient broadcasting / continuous partial attention phenomenon that is Twitter has stepped up to the big leagues and has acquired VC funding — so that it may continue to expand its Twittering services and provide this valuable service to more and more [...]

Dvorak Declares Apple “All Right”. Here’s My Own “Choose Apple” Story.

I’m not going to jump into the whole Mac vs. PC debate right now because, amongst many other things, its tiresome.  But John C. Dvorak, eternal curmudgeon of almost all things technology has recently declared that “Macs Are All Right” after using them regularly for a few months, and I can’t help but chime in [...]

TechCrunch Launches Spawn on the Sly: Crunchbase Debuted, Like 2 Weeks Ago.

Well, I must have missed the newsletter or something — but it seems like TechCrunch launched its database of Web2.0 companies about two weeks ago, with an appropriately/cringeworthy “crunch” like moniker: Crunchbase.  And in fact,it may yet be in ’stealth’ as its not officially listed in the TechCrunchNetwork on the TechCrunch home page.
I did notice [...]

Can You Really Copyright “Social Networking … But For College Students”?

When something in the social mediasphere reaches people like my own *mother*, you know its penetrated the public consciousness.  Of sorts.  Yes, I am referring to the lawsuit leveled against Marc “I turned down a billion dollars” Zuckerburg for allegedly stealing the idea for Facebook, while he was doing some contract coding at Harvard for [...]

When You Play With Fake, Expect To Be Found

Let’s put aside for a second that Fake Steve Jobs is neither funny nor witty, and ask ourselves why we should believe the shrill outrage of the author of a blog that is *purported* to be funny and witty.
{I could also ask why the technosphere engaged in such extravagant and indulgent navel gazing as to [...]