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The Coming Search Engine Media Wars
News Corp, ever the online contrarian, is considering pulling all of its news content off of Google and doing an exclusive deal with Microsoft's Bing. For this, Rupert Murdoch would receive a pittance. Welcome to the future of paid media. For years, newspapers and other media companies have ...
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Surf The Internet the Mostly Lower Case Way
Stop everything, The Internet : AOL is now Aol. Whether superimposed on a fish or a hand or just some swirly crap, this logo makes the bold statement: We can no longer afford capital letters. [ Ad Age ]
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What the Hell's Wrong with Gavin Newsom?
Besides his Patrick Bateman hair, obviously. The San Francisco mayor and obvious prick went into hiding after mysteriously quitting the governor's race , and his silence-breaking TV interview was a mess. So, like, you might assume that interviewer Hank Plante would ask about this ...
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What the Hell is Wrong With Gavin Newsom?
Besides his Patrick Bateman hair, obviously. The San Francisco mayor and obvious prick went into hiding after mysteriously quitting the governor's race , and his silence-breaking TV interview was a mess. So, like, you might assume that interviewer Hank Plante would ask about this ...
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Twitter-to-Book Phenomenon Reaches Bottom of the Barrel with Self-Publishing
Couldn't get a Twitter book deal like Nick Douglas , Twitterature , or business huckster Garyvee ? Don't fret! Thanks to TweetBookz you don't even need a deal to see you precious 140-character musings on paper. Congrats! You're an author. The most annoying thing about TweetBookz isn't that ...
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Wikipedia Gridlocked by Wikipedia Nerds
Wikipedia was probably pretty cool a few years back when you could just get a wild hair and immediately post up an article on The Artifacts , or whatever. But now it's run by a dead-ender Debbie Downer "deletionist" nerd army. The WSJ reports that the number of Wikipedia editors ( real ...
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The Return of Pay Per Post and the End of Twitter: Internet as One Long, Subversive Ad
Remember the moment you knew MySpace was doomed? It came in the form of obnoxious ads. Which your Twitter stream is about to be. So: are you making that cash, or being cashed in on? Pay Per Post is back . Today, the Times runs a trend(ing) piece in the business section on how Twitter users ...
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The Return of Pay Per Post: Your Twitter Feed (and Internet) is Just One Long, Subervisive Ad
Remember the moment you knew MySpace was doomed? It came in the form of obnoxious ads. Which your Twitter stream is about to be. So: are you making that cash, or being cashed in on? Pay Per Post is back . Today, the Times runs a trend(ing) piece in the business section on how Twitter users ...
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Hidden Forces Baffle the Twitterati
Neel Shah got his scandal-phone returned; Kevin Marks got retweeted by ghosts and Al Yankovic was surrounded by nobodies. The Twitterati were haunted, in a good way. Neel Shah, Page Six gossip and former Gawker and Radar -ite, was glad his phone didn't end up with the likes of his present or ...
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Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7
A National Security Agency director just bragged to a Senate subcommittee about his agency's close "cooperation" with Microsoft to, err, "enhance" how Windows 7 guards a user's privacy. Doesn't that just make you feel all warm and fuzzy? The spooks at the NSA are, of course, notorious for ...
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Regretsy Book to Be Not Quite as Good as Regretsy.com
The heretofore anonymous founder of Regretsy , the blog that appropriately mocks your dumb arts-and-crafts projects, has been outed. Because she got a book deal! New blog-to-book trend: Saying right up front the book will be more paltry than the blog. Speakeasy reports that the Regretsy ...
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Why Google's New OS is For Losers
A Twitter engineer said Google's new "Chrome" OS is something you resign yourself to; a CNET writer said it's something you are infected with; and Mediaite might hang out awkwardly on Tumblr with it. The Twitterati were ruthless. Twitter engineer Alex Payne is, needless to say, not impressed ...
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Yahoo's Lesbian 'Don Juan' Backhands Lindsay Lohan
Courtenay Semel , the sapphic spawn of former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, is quoted in the lesbian magazine Curve dissing former lady friend Lindsay Lohan . Then she complains that the media twists her relationships. The nerve of this one. Courtenay Semel , for those who are not familiar with ...
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Twitter's New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In
Twitter's New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In
valleywag.gawker.com — Twitter today announced it will prompt users to post by asking "What's happening?" rather than the old "What are you doing?" We asked a prominent linguist if this means anything. Turns out it does: Twitterers are no longer such loners. In short, ... (more) Twitter's New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In
Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads
Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads
valleywag.gawker.com — Facebook and Zynga are the defendants in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday, which seeks upwards of $5 million for social network users scammed in online game ads. Neither company's top-drawer investors can be happy. The suit was probably ... (more) Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy ...
Initial Complaint in Swift vs. Zynga - Facebook
Initial Complaint in Swift vs. Zynga - Facebook
valleywag.gawker.com — San Francisco, 1:59 PM Thu Nov 19 53 posts in the last 24 hours Tip Your Editors: tips@valleywag.com | AIM Valleywag: Ryan Tate | Email Valleywag elsewhere on the Web: Twitter | Facebook Valleywags Emeriti: Nick Denton Nick Douglas Owen Thomas ... (more) Initial Complaint in Swift vs. Zynga - Facebook
The Incredible Shrinking AOL
Just in time for Christmas, AOL is asking 2,500 of its workers to volunteer for buyouts starting Dec. 4 (layoffs come after) as the company separates from Time Warner and a shadow of its former online conglomerate self. AOL CEO Tim Armstrong (pictured) said in a memo to staff (below) that the ...
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Condé Nast Is the Latest to Convert in Apple's Secret Tablet Faith
Condé Nast says it is already racing to repackage its magazines for Apple's forthcoming tablet, staring with Wired , even while towing Apple's line that the Tabelt doesn't exist. Publishers are clearly betting Steve Jobs can save their business model. The Apple Tablet has been something of a ...
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Just 'Chill' About Adam Lambert's Gayness
Rachel Sklar went without pants, Julia Allison went without sleep/discretion and Adam Lambert said you can go without him being too obviously gay in your magazine. The Twitterati were deprived and depriving. Singer Adam Lambert issued Out a non-dential denial about him purposely keeping lady ...
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Peter Thiel —
the PayPal co-founder and artificial intelligence enthusiast, explaining to Business Insider that Luddites may well be the first up against the wall when the robot revolution comes. The new order "could be very good, it could be very bad."
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