shoutingmat.ch (tech) http://tech.shoutingmat.ch info@shoutingmat.ch http://www.pjdoland.com/chai/?v=0.1 Lively No More | Official Google Blog http://tech.shoutingmat.ch/comments/13799963.html Nov 19, 2008, 8:55pm: "In July we launched Lively in Google Labs because we wanted users to be able to interact with their friends and express themselves online in new ways. Google has always been supportive of this kind of experimentation because we believe it's the best way to create groundbreaking products that make a difference to people's lives. But we've also always accepted that when you take these kinds of risks not every bet is going to pay off. "

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  • Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim | R.I.P. Google's Lively | Nov 19, 2008, 9:32pm: It took two years to develop Lively –the 3D world from Google. It took less than 5 months for Google to announce it is shutting it down. …despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four and a half months, we've decided to shut...
  • HipMojo | Google: Let the Bloodletting Begin | Nov 19, 2008, 10:05pm: ...products which launched to much fanfare but never crossed over to mainstream appeal. We read off Tech Crunch that Lively is axed. What's Lively?  Exactly. But the fact remains: big, medium and small-sized firms are going to start cutting faster, bigger and bolder than we've ever seen.  Think...
  • VentureBeat | Google buries Lively | Nov 19, 2008, 10:40pm: Lively by Google, the search giant's product for creating 3D virtual worlds on the web, will be shutting down at the end of the year. This news isn't a big surprise — despite creative director Kevin Hanna's speculation about expanding the product to include casual...
  • Silicon Alley Insider | That Was Quick: Google Kills Virtual World 'Lively' (GOOG) | Nov 19, 2008, 11:40pm: Google (GOOG) is killing its virtual world, Lively, after less than five months, to focus more on its "core search, ads and apps business." Smart move, given the rotting economy and pressure for Google to control costs and hit its...
  • Paid Content | Google Pulls the Plug On Lively | Nov 19, 2008, 11:47pm: ...and given the state of the economy, even Google couldn't afford to devote resources to a fledgling project. The company admitted as much in an official blog post: It has been a tough decision, but we want to ensure that we prioritize our resources and focus more on our core search, ads and apps...
  • Read/Write Web | Google Lively Is Dead-ly | Nov 19, 2008, 11:58pm: ...Now, a little over four months after Lively's launch, Google has decided to turn the lights out on the alternate reality, announcing that they are discontinuing Lively at the end of this year. Sponsor Google tried to be polite about pulling the plug: "Since Lively's launch, we have been delighted to see the...
  • Mashable | That Was Quick: Google Shuts Lively Down | Nov 20, 2008, 12:17am: Without much fanfare, the 20% time project Lively is now facing the end of its brief lifespan, as Google announced today that the virtual chat and meeting tool is set to be shut down by the end of the year. "...despite all the virtual high fives and creative...
  • Profy.Com | Google Is Out of the Virtual Reality Into... Reality | Nov 20, 2008, 12:58am: ...time to time and its own virtual reality Lively seems to be one of such mistakes. Today Google's team working on Lively has admitted the mistake and announced the decision to shut Lively down explaining that the company needs to focus on its core lines of business - search, ads, and applications. Lively...
  • TechDirt | Google Kills Lively Quickly | Nov 20, 2008, 5:42am: ...I can't recall ever hearing about Lively again -- and had pretty much forgotten it existed. And, indeed, less than six months after launching it, Google has killed off Lively, admitting that the experiment was something of a failure. There seems to be a growing pattern in figuring out which Google projects are a...
  • Guardian Unlimited - Technology | Google Lively sentenced to death | Nov 20, 2008, 6:01am: ...to buy the company then hired away one of its co-founders. Whatever the background, Google Lively flopped, and The Official Google Blog now says Lively no more:despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four and a half months, we've decided to shut Lively...
  • Tech Blog - Houston Chronicle | Linkpost | 11.20.2008 | Nov 20, 2008, 6:54am: ...Survey - I know I would. • Spice up your inbox with colors and themes - Gmail adds themes, though not all users may be able to see them yet. • Lively no more - Google kills off its virtual world. • Mozilla: One Billion Addons Served - Here Are Some of Our Favorites - More than a billion Firefox...
  • The Raw Feed | Google Kills 'Second Life Killer,' Google Lively | Nov 20, 2008, 8:23am: Google announced yesterday evening that it would KILL OFF GOOGLE LIVELY , the 3D virtual environment that was supposed to provide a mass-market...
  • Clickz | Was Google Lively DOA? | Nov 20, 2008, 10:15am: ...and brands such as National Geographic, there was insufficient momentum to sustain the Google Labs venture. This morning the Official Google Blog posted Google Lively will shut down at the end of the year. "Google has always been supportive of this kind of experimentation because we believe...
  • VTOR | Lively … not | Nov 20, 2008, 11:34am: ...It's like you create an avatar, walk around, get to know a few places and then BAM! Gunshot to the head from some dark alley. Come on, Google, give Lively a little more chance: Google has always been supportive of this kind of experimentation because we believe it's the best way to create groundbreaking products...
  • Download Squad | Lively from Google going the way of the dodo | Nov 20, 2008, 1:00pm: ...Fun, Internet, Google Not that we were huge fans of Lively to begin with, but I'm sure someone out there loved it. Right? No? Perhaps that explains Google's announcement that, "despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four and a half months, we've decided to shut...
  • Valley Wag | Second Life's death knell [Virtual Worlds] | Nov 20, 2008, 1:40pm: Google has shut down Lively, a service where people log on to chat and explore 3D virtual spaces, after a few short months. The MBAs of Silicon Valley have a pat phrase...
  • Good Morning Silicon Valley | Lively wasn't, and now it's dead | Nov 20, 2008, 2:19pm: ...make a difference to people's lives. But we've also always accepted that when you take these kinds of risks not every bet is going to pay off," said a post from the Lively team. "That's why, despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four and a half months, we've decided to...
  • Silicon Alley Insider | How Google Could Have Made Lively Work: No Sex, More Ads, Firefox (GOOG) | Nov 20, 2008, 4:25pm: Less than five months after launch, Google (GOOG) is shutting down virtual world Lively. The reason it's going away: It's useless to Google's search ad business. Which is why the company said it's dumping Lively to "focus more on our core...
  • Gadgetell | Google's "Lively" is gonna be dead | Nov 20, 2008, 10:05pm: ...something a little different, and now they pretty much kick search engine ass.  Same with Gmail, it was new and different enough to succeed. On its official blog, Google posted last night that ""Despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four and a half...
  • Ancora Imparo | Saying Goodbye to the Non-Essential | Nov 21, 2008, 7:33am: I expect we will be hearing many announcements like this from Google and many others in the coming weeks and months. In July we launched Lively in Google Labs because we wanted users to be able to interact with...
  • p2pnet | Google kills Lively | Nov 21, 2008, 7:57am: news view | Advertising:- Google's Lively isn't. Lively, that is. It's not dead yet. Only moribund. But it'll cease to be on December 31, blogs Google. It's a bet that didn't pay off, Do No Evil admits, going on »»» That's why, despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms...
  • Bits - New York Times | Google Unplugs Lively as Hype Fades Over Virtual Worlds | Nov 21, 2008, 7:16pm: ...By Ashlee Vance Online virtual worlds were dealt a heavy helping of reality this week. First off, Google announced that its Lively experiment will shut down at the end of the year. The Web-based portal to all things virtual only started in July, making this one of Google's shorter experiments....
  • Google Operating System | Google's Tighter Cost Controls | Dec 4, 2008, 6:54am: ...Google says that it wants to "prioritize our resources and focus more on our core search, ads and apps business." That's the official explanation for closing Lively and for ending the agreement with Yahoo for providing search ads. "We have to behave as though we don't know" what's going to happen, says...
    • ]]> 13799963@http://shoutingmat.ch Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:55:00 EST Yahoo's Jerry Yang to Step down, as a Search for New CEO Commences | All Things Digital http://tech.shoutingmat.ch/comments/13696186.html Nov 17, 2008, 7:50pm: "Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang will step down from his job as CEO, as soon as the board finds a replacement for him, in what sources close to the situation call a joint decision by him and the company's directors."

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    • Valley Wag | Jerry Yang out as Yahoo CEO [Exits] | Nov 17, 2008, 8:00pm: Yahoo founder Jerry Yang is stepping down as CEO, and a search is underway for a replacement after a tumultuous 18 months on the job. Which is curious. In a recent interview, Yang had just...
    • CNET News.com | Yahoo CEO Yang to step down | Nov 17, 2008, 8:02pm: ...in which about 1,000 Yahoo employees lost their jobs in February. In after-hours trading Monday, Yahoo rose 47 cents, or 4 percent, to $11.10. All Things D's Kara Swisher reported the move earlier Monday. Hitting the reset button "I think it's the right move for the company," said Eric Jackson, an activist...
    • Tech Trader Daily | Yahoo: Report Yang To Step Down; New CEO Sought | Nov 17, 2008, 8:12pm: Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Jerry Yang will step down as soon as the board can find a replacement for him, according to AllThingsD's Kara Swisher. She is attributing the report to "sources close to the situation." The story says the decision was reached jointly by Yang and the company's...
    • Venture Beat | Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang stepping down | Nov 17, 2008, 8:12pm: Speculation about this moment has been going for many months, but today it has finally come: Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang is stepping down, according to Kara Swisher at AllThingsD. Yahoo also issued a press release confirming the news. Yang will go back to being Chief Yahoo and a member of the company's board of...
    • Mashable | Jerry Yang Out as Yahoo's CEO | Nov 17, 2008, 8:35pm: ...way to a recent low of $10.32 amidst its own internal problems and the broader economic slowdown. As for who might replace Yang, Kara Swisher, who first reported the news, speculates that former eBay CEO Meg Whitman or News Corp COO are likely candidates, among others. --- Related Articles at Mashable | All...
    • Search Blog | Yang To Leave CEO Post at Yahoo | Nov 17, 2008, 9:05pm: News flash, more to come. In this interview, I ask Yang why he'd want to stay as CEO. The interview as widely cited as evidence he should leave. I for one have a lot...
    • Mark Evans | Say Goodnight, Jerry | Nov 17, 2008, 9:15pm: Jerry Yang's ride as Yahoo CEO was short but, sadly, not so sweet as he's finally been pushed aside. The sad truth is Yang should never have succeeded Terry Semel as CEO in the first place. He's a nice guy, clearly very smart and a die-hard...
    • Business Week | Yang Is Out at Yahoo | Nov 17, 2008, 9:58pm: ...Internet company just announced. The release (quoted in full after the jump, along with Yang's memo to the troops) came shortly after the blog Boomtown broke the news. The move may well prompt Microsoft, whose repeated attempts to buy all or a portion of Yahoo failed to produce a deal earlier this...
    • Paris Lemon | Chief Ya-Who? | Nov 17, 2008, 10:35pm: ...start a billion different crappy social networks. And worse, it seemed to do them all in a half-assed way. Now, all the focus seems to be turning to who Yahoo's next CEO will be. There are a lot of big names being thrown out there. Most with plenty of leadership experience. But I think a lot of us still know who will...
    • Tech Blog - Houston Chronicle | Is exit of Yahoo's Jerry Yang too little, too late? | Nov 17, 2008, 10:49pm: ...with the company amid regulatory concerns, and talks over a possible merger with Time Warner Inc.'s AOL failed to progress. The story was initially broken by Kara Swisher at the AllThingsD blog , which also has posted a copy of Yang's memo to employees : last june, i accepted the board's request that i assume the ceo role to...
    • Tech Trader Daily | Yahoo: Finally, A Reason For Optimism | Nov 18, 2008, 1:17am: ...to buy either the Yahoo search business or the entire company. And three, there will be plenty of speculation on who will take over Yang's job. AllThingsD's Kara Swisher throws out some interesting potential CEO candidates: News Corp. (NWS) COO Peter Chernin, former AOL CEO Jon Miller, former eBay (EBAY) CEO...
    • Seeking Alpha - Internet stocks | Yahoo: Finally, a Reason for Optimism | Nov 18, 2008, 2:41am: ...buy either the Yahoo search business or the entire company. And three, there will be plenty of speculation on who will take over Yang’s job. AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher throws out some interesting potential CEO candidates: News Corp. ( NWS) COO Peter Chernin, former AOL CEO Jon Miller, former eBay ( EBAY) CEO...
    • Boomtown | Yahoo's Peter (Chernin) Principle–And Other CEO Choices | Nov 18, 2008, 3:12am: ...O Peter Chernin. And, no surprise, he is the No. 1 choice of most inside and outside Yahoo (YHOO) in the wake of the news late yesterday that current CEO and Co-Founder Jerry Yang is stepping down. And why not? Chernin has the right resume: Experienced at running large and complex organizations; savvier than most in media about the...
    • PDA (Guardian Unlimited) | Was Jerry Yang pushed, or did he jump? | Nov 18, 2008, 6:03am: ...are expected to rise when US markets open later today. Microsoft's initial offer to Yahoo, on February 1 this year was worth $44bn. That must sting. Kara Swisher said the new chief executive will probably be an outsider: "While Yahoo's board has some execs in mind to become CEO, obvious candidates...
    • Profy.Com | Some Ideas for a New Yahoo CEO Initial Actions | Nov 18, 2008, 7:54am: ...& Struggles to search for a replacement both internally and externally. One of the obvious candidates is Yahoo's current president Sue Decker but sources told Kara Swisher Ms. Decker is not a likely candidate. Kara also mentions a few outsiders who are likely to be considered as candidates for the Yahoo CEO...
    • Wall Street Journal | Yang to Step Down as Yahoo CEO | Nov 18, 2008, 10:41am: ...publicly that he thought Microsoft should try to buy Yahoo, his relationship with Microsoft has been strained by months of tense negotiations. More AllThingsD: Yahoo Searches For CEO AllThingsD: Yang's memo to Yahoo employees Yahoo Press Release A person familiar with Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer's thinking said...
    • Digital Daily | Jerry Yang: Yahoo's $2 Billion Man | Nov 18, 2008, 11:15am: ...the company intends to continue to try to compete on its own or look for an acquirer." – Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster In the end, Jerry Yang's decision to step down as Yahoo's CEO was the best thing he's ever done for the company. With Yang's tenure at an end, Yahoo's stock is finally beginning to recover...
    • CNNMoney.com | Yahoo after Yang | Nov 18, 2008, 11:29am: ...officer of Yahoo(s YHOO), the company he co-founded with David Filo, announced today that he is stepping down from the top slot. The news was first reported by Kara Swisher and later confirmed by Yahoo in a press release. He is going to make way for someone else, but will stay on the board of Yahoo and will be...
    • Boomtown | Yahoo Reaction: "You Can Kick This Dog, but It Still Barks" | Nov 18, 2008, 1:24pm: Yesterday, after the news got out that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang was stepping down from his job and that a search was on for a new CEO, BoomTown got inundated with reaction from everyone from readers of this blog to Internet players to...
    • Deal Journal | Afternoon Reading: Oh, Good! More Yahoo-Microsoft Speculation | Nov 18, 2008, 3:11pm: ...he is a lame duck. And several critical decisions need to be made soon, before it is too late." Over at All Things Digital, Kara Swisher, who broke the news last night, takes a look at possible candidates. Though Yahoo President Sue Decker is being considered, Swisher writes that her sources...
    • Seeking Alpha - Internet stocks | Don't Buy Yahoo Quite Yet | Nov 19, 2008, 6:24am: ...Jerry Yang will be stepping down as CEO/Chief Value Destroyer of the company he created. Kara Swisher at All Things Digital first broke the news here.The welcome news was met with a surge in YHOO’s stock price yesterday.  At last check, the stock was up more than 6.8% on the day,...
    • FactoryCity | Bookmarks for November 10 to November 24 | Nov 30, 2008, 3:02am: ...the financial crisis, Obama's thoughts on Lincoln and FDR, and an update on the new First Dog." Tags: obama, interview, politics, via:mento.info Yahoo's Jerry Yang to Step Down, As a Search for New CEO Commences (AllThingsD) "Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang will step down from his job as CEO, said sources close to the company, as soon as the board finds a replacement for...
    • Boomtown | Yahoo CEO Countdown, 26 Days to Go: As Chernin Declines, Will a Dark Horse Emerge? | Dec 5, 2008, 10:24am: ...Quest to mark the time that Jerry Yang said he needed to give Yahoo a top-to-bottom look-see when he took over last summer as CEO. Yang announced he was stepping down on Nov. 17, prompting the search for someone to lead Yahoo (YHOO) to the promised land where BoomTown countdowns are illegal. But that's not today, so...
      • ]]> 13696186@http://shoutingmat.ch Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:50:01 EST Cardio with Obama | Philadelphia City Paper http://tech.shoutingmat.ch/comments/14375728.html Dec 09, 2008, 9:34pm: "My morning routine usually starts off the same way every day. Wake up, go to the gym, grab a coffee and go to work."

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      • Gizmodo | Barack Obama Uses a Zune [Zomg] | Dec 3, 2008, 2:45pm: ...misinformation and dirty lies spread about Obama over the course of the presidential campaign, this is the most shocking I've heard about him: He uses a Zune. This can't be possible. Why? Because, as has been widely reported, Obama, many of his staffers and Joe Biden use a Mac. And well, Zunes...
      • Gear Log | Obama Owns a Zune?! | Dec 3, 2008, 5:35pm: ...President-Elect is a Zune user--at least according to a witness who saw the politician at a Phildelphia area gym. Said witness told Philadelphia's City Paper : He walked majestically across the gym floor in his track pants and sweat shirt. I did a double take, and soon after that, looked around the...
      • Wall Street Journal Biz Tech | A Zune Obama Can Believe In | Dec 3, 2008, 8:20pm: ...out at the Philadelphia Sports Club earlier this week listening to a….Zune? Neal Santos, an associate Web editor with the Philadelphia City Paper, posted an item Tuesday on the news weekly's site about how he recently found himself running on a treadmill next to the president elect as Obama read a...
      • Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog | President-elect Barack Obama uses a Zune | Dec 3, 2008, 9:57pm: ...Barack Obama was spotted using one while working out at a Philadelphia gym. Imagine a Zune right there The Philadelphia City Paper's Neal Santos wrote on the publication's blog Tuesday that much to his surprise, while exercising at a gym, Obama "hopped on the machine next to me and broke a...
      • Ed Bott | The ultimate celebrity endorsement | Dec 3, 2008, 10:43pm: Guess who uses a Zune? (Hint: He's moving to a new house on January
      • Gadget Lab - Wired | Barack Obama Uses a Zune | Dec 4, 2008, 8:41am: ...all we need to know is just what was Obama listening to? We'll start the guessing: Guns N' Roses' execrable new album, Chinese Democracy. Cardio with Obama [City Paper via Gearlog] Zunegate [City Paper] See Also: Barack Obama Uses a Mac President-Elect Obama Must Surrender His BlackBerry, Says...
      • Podcasting News | Obama's Zunegate | Dec 4, 2008, 9:05am: ...City Paper writer Neal Santos  reports that Obama was seen listening to a Zune while working out.  Maybe: I want to correct what I said  yesterday about Obama using a Zune.  I claimed that it was  his Zune. I don't know for sure that it was his. It could belong to one of the many Secret Service dudes that were...
      • Mobility Site | Zunegate! OMGBBQ! | Dec 4, 2008, 9:43am: A couple days ago, Neal Santos on his blog at the Philadelphia City Paper reported a close encounter he had with President Elect Barack Obama and his security detail in the gym that...
      • Wall Street Journal Biz Tech | Obama ZuneGate, Day Two | Dec 4, 2008, 12:48pm: Barack Obama: Zune man? Or Apple fanboy? Yesterday the Philadelphia City Paper ignited a controversy over the question, with a blog entry that included the innocuous detail that the President-elect was working out while listening to the Microsoft (not Apple!) music player. But...
      • Guardian Unlimited - Technology | George W Bush uses an iPod, Barack Obama uses a Zune .. not (updated) | Dec 4, 2008, 6:14pm: ...he doesn't) Comments (…) America's outgoing president George W Bush has an iPod, but president elect Barack Obama uses a Zune, according to City Paper reporter Neal Santos, who was in the gym at the time. He says Obama "hopped on the machine next to me and broke a mean sweat while reading a copy of USA Today and...
      • CrunchGear | Barack Obama: Zune user | Dec 4, 2008, 9:05pm: ...election was bought by Microsoft? No, stay with me. They went to Diebold and bought themselves an election, and now the viral starts. First Obama is spotted using a Zune at the gym. Then maybe there are candid shots of him sharing songs with his daughters' Zune 16s in the presidential limo. Then,...
      • Today @ PC World | ZuneGate: Is Obama an iPresident or Not? | Dec 5, 2008, 7:28am: ..."Not true, the President-Elect uses and iPod," addressed the spokesman to Philadelphia City Paper - Neal Santos' accusations. It all started with a blog entry on the Philadelphia's newspaper website of Santos saying that Obama "hopped on the machine next to me [at the gym] and broke a mean sweat...
      • Tech Blorge | Obama's MP3 choice sparks overreaction | Dec 5, 2008, 10:34am: ...is hopefully mock outrage at the news Barack Obama uses a Microsoft Zune. The furore broke when Neal Santos of Philadelphia's City Paper wrote about spotting Obama at a local gym, noting "But he hopped on the machine [...]
        • ]]> 14375728@http://shoutingmat.ch Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:34:58 EST Slideshare » Upload (slideshare Is the Best Place To Share Powerpoint Presentations) | Slide Share http://tech.shoutingmat.ch/comments/12026651.html Dec 03, 2008, 7:59am: "You can also upload slides without creating an account. Just use the form below and once its done, you will be assigned a guest account with limited features. You can sign up for a real account anytime and these slides will be transferred to this account."

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        • Micro Persuasion | Edelman Webinar: All Social Media is Local | Oct 9, 2008, 1:42pm: ...Washington DC. I talk about five trends to watch near the end just before the Q&A. All Social Media Is Local 2008 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.
        • Silicon Alley Insider | Sequoia's Startup Advice: Save Cash, Slash Costs, Stay Alive | Oct 9, 2008, 4:49pm: ...tureBeat's Eric Eldon, here's the slides from the presentation: Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: depression recession) Mike Moritz: His message to companies was don't worry about getting ahead, instead, 'We're talking...
        • Master of 500 Hats | Fear is the Mind Killer of the Silicon Valley Entrepreneur (we must be Muad'Dib, not Clark Kent) | Oct 10, 2008, 4:25am: ...mike cassidy's presentation on SPEED: The Ultimate Startup Weapon. Best Strategy Is Speed (Startup2Startup May 2008) View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: stylus.innovation xfire) and while we're at it, let me take on this issue of "conserving cash" .  personally,...
        • A VC | Watch This Slide Show | Oct 10, 2008, 6:05am: ...and advice. Kudos to the team at Sequoia who put it together. Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: downturn
        • Tech Blog - Houston Chronicle | Linkpost | 10.10.2008 | Oct 10, 2008, 9:14am: ..."RIP: Good Times" presentation: Here it is - Quick tutorial on why markets have imploded and what it means for tech. View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: depression
        • HipMojo | Sequoia's Presentation: Good Times - RIP | Oct 10, 2008, 9:29am: Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: depression
        • Valley Wag | Sequoia's complete gloom-and-doom presentation [Meltdowns] | Oct 10, 2008, 3:20pm: ...but VentureBeat got its hands on the actual PowerPoint deck: Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: depression
        • Tech Trader Daily | Sequoia Capital Warns: The Dark Ages Are Here | Oct 10, 2008, 4:06pm: ...contains good advice for companies both private and public. Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: depression
        • 37 Signals - Signals vs. Noise | Sequoia Capital: Armchair quarterbacks | Oct 13, 2008, 12:30pm: ...what their portfolio companies should do to weather the storm. Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: depression recession) What was their advice before the downturn? The analysis is good and the advice sound, but it also begs...
        • Master of 500 Hats | Got SchadenFreude? Profit from Other's Despair -- Enter the SlideShare "Credit Crisis in 30 Slides Contest" (Judges: Cuban, Varian, Kedrosky, Wilson) | Oct 14, 2008, 2:52pm: ...know the prizes are cheap, but listen up mofo we're trying to preserve cash ) The Credit Crisis in 30 slides contest View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Credit Crisis Contest judges include: Mark Cuban (Dallas Mavericks owner / Entrepreneur) Hal Varian (Google Chief Economist) Paul...
        • Master of 500 Hats | EBAY Q3 2008 Earnings: MarketPlace Rev$ Flat (note to mgmt: spin out PayPal, or expect to get taken over) | Oct 15, 2008, 9:51pm: ...sigh.  so much potential being wasted. but hey, they do awesome powerpoints. eBay 2008, Q3 Earnings View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: earnings
        • Seeking Alpha - Internet stocks | eBay's Core Shrivels While Skype Shines | Oct 16, 2008, 12:00pm: ...Skype is still too small to counteract its overall decline. Maybe they can still sell it. eBay 2008, Q3 Earnings View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: earnings ebay)  Original post Related Articles Google Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript Oct 16, 2008 Google Q3:...
        • Tech Crunch | Liveblogging Google Third Quarter Conference Call | Oct 16, 2008, 4:40pm: Google Q3 2008 Earnings Slides View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: goog google) Google just released third quarter earnings. It reported revenues of $5.4 billion (about $4 billion after...
        • Seeking Alpha - Internet stocks | Liveblogging Google Conference Call | Oct 16, 2008, 8:19pm: Google Q3 2008 Earnings Slides View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: goog google) Google just released third quarter earnings. It reported revenues of $5.4 billion (about $4 billion after...
        • Ton's Interdependent Thoughts | SHiFT08: Knowledge Cafe Slides, Pictures and Video | Oct 20, 2008, 1:40am: ...introduction to the Knowledge Cafe I gave at SHiFT08 are up on my Slideshare account of course: SHiFT Knowledge Cafe View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: shift08 shift) Tags: shift08, knowledgecafe, boundaries, worklifebalance, futureworkspaces, lisbon,
        • Ton's Interdependent Thoughts | Shifting Cultural Categories: General Kick-off | Oct 22, 2008, 9:07am: ...that only towns connected to the railroad and dilligence network used synchronized time). SHiFT Knowledge Cafe View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: infrastructure culture) Last week at SHiFT08 I used the time slot in the programme allotted to me to have a conversation...
        • broadstuff | Limits to FreeConomics at Web 2.0 Expo, Berlin | Oct 22, 2008, 3:38pm: ...at the O'Reilly Web Expo in Berlin (the slides are on slideshare as below): Broadsight - Web 2.0 Expo Presentation View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Three thoughts: Firstly, what a difference a month makes - when i wrote the initial posts on the "Limits to FreeConomics" several...
        • Tech Crunch | Live: Yahoo Previews Its New Application Platform | Oct 24, 2008, 2:44pm: ...on the heals of a new profile system, which didn't exactly launch without a hitch. Yahoo! Open Strategy Overview View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: openhack08 yos) The platform isn't being rolled out today; apparently it's coming sometime next week. 11:51am - Ash Patel is...
        • Jeff Pulver | Steve Garfield: New Media Tools for Journalism: Community And Conversation | Oct 25, 2008, 9:19am: ...of Communication School of Journalism on Oct 23, 2008: New Media Tools for Journalism: Community And Conversation View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: twitter facebook) from the blog post: Steve Garfield / New Media Tools for Journalism: Community And Conversation from his...
        • A VC | Great Presentation From Saul Klein | Oct 25, 2008, 6:57pm: Thoughts on European Start Ups View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: startups vc) Thanks to Andy at Betaworks for showcasing it on their blog.
        • VentureBeat | Post-redesign, Facebook's platform working well for some applications | Oct 29, 2008, 3:45pm: ...it believes, reward the most meaningful apps while punishing the trivial ones. Facebook redesign impact on apps View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: redesign
        • Infectious Greed | Meeker's Tech Econo-Slides from Web 2 Summit | Nov 5, 2008, 9:46pm: ...Web 2 Summit in San Francisco, analyst Mary Meeker's slide deck on tech markets: MorganStanley Techtrendsweb2 110508 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: morganstanley web2summit) I have been savagely critical of Meeker many times in the past, so I post this advisedly. It may...
        • Boomtown | Mary Meeker's Entire Bummer PowerPoint on Her Internet Outlook | Nov 6, 2008, 3:05am: ...Here it is (click the screen icon in the right corner to make it larger): Mary Meeker Web 2.0 Presentation View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: meeker
        • TechWag | Tune In Turn On Step Out | Nov 6, 2008, 3:29pm: ...and just got the presentation approved. It is below if you are interested in reading it. Tune On, Turn In, Step Out View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: web 2.0 ) I think that education and Web 2.0 would make a remarkably compelling classroom, and way for instructors and...
        • Tech Crunch | Mary Meeker's View Of The World In 50 Slides | Nov 6, 2008, 5:47pm: ...advertising still has a lot of share to gain, and will likely continue to do so. Mary Meeker Web 2.0 Presentation View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: advertising web) Crunch Network : CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and
        • Master of 500 Hats | The Secret History of Silicon Valley: Thu 11/20 Brown Bag Lunch @ Computer History Museum (Mt View) | Nov 11, 2008, 12:11am: ...of his talk below: Here's his Customer Development Methodology preso on SlideShare: Customer Development Methodology View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: customer development product development
        • Venture Beat | Finding and defining Obama's CTO should be higher priority | Nov 12, 2008, 3:22am: Obama Transition Flowchart 08 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: technology policy) It has never been clear how a " chief technology officer " would actually fit into president-elect Barack...
        • broadstuff | The Future of Online Video - Emerging Hypotheses | Nov 12, 2008, 1:55pm: ...the presentation from last week (This piece is also up on the Telco 2.0 blog by the way). The Future of Online Video View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: internet telecoms) To understand the industry evolution, its worth outlining the background to the online media world. What...
        • Venture Beat | The VC model is broken | Nov 12, 2008, 6:43pm: ...the changes with a dour set of slides. He gets some things right, and some things wrong. TheFunded - Canarie View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: investing lp) Ressi was invited to present his views to the finance and entrepreneurship faculty at Harvard Business School,...
        • Tech Crunch | A Scary Line Has Been Crossed For VCs | Nov 12, 2008, 8:15pm: ...Their once-flush investors are now squeezing every penny. And some VC funds just won't make it. TheFunded - Canarie View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: investing vc) Crunch Network : CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and
        • TechWag | Venture Capital Feeling the Pain | Nov 12, 2008, 9:14pm: ...Adeo Ressi, founder of The Funded as a slide presentation that he gave that goes like this: TheFunded - Canarie View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: investing vc) There are a number of premises that are interesting here; the one big idea is that especially here in Seattle,...
        • A VC | A Slightly Different Perspective | Nov 13, 2008, 6:58am: ...posts were inspired by this presentation that Adeo Ressi of TheFunded gave at HBS recently. TheFunded - Canarie View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: lp vc) I don't buy most of Adeo's arguments in his presentation but I am not going to critique it. Most of what he says is...
        • broadstuff | The Dea(r)th of Venture Capitalism ? | Nov 13, 2008, 5:54pm: ...sparked off by a presentation by TheFunded CEO laying out the problems with VC's (see below). TheFunded - Canarie View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: lp investing) VentureBeat summarises the issues in debate: Most daunting is that there's more money being invested into...
        • GigaOM | Is the VC Model Broken? Far From it | Nov 14, 2008, 9:00am: ...newswire writes. Everyone including large university endowments are having sleepless nights.  TheFunded - Canarie View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: lp investing) Image courtesy of Adeo Ressi via his blog. The Conference for Video Entrepreneurs and Influencers (at special...
        • Tech Crunch | Elevator Pitch Friday: Truevert, The Green Search Engine | Nov 14, 2008, 6:38pm: ...do a better job? Check it out and tell Roitblat what you think in comments. Truevert Vertical Semantic Search View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: green web) Crunch Network : MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.
        • Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim | 14 Competitive Intelligence Tools (aka How to Spy on Matt Cutts) | Nov 17, 2008, 9:20am: ...with a list of 14 tools I recommend for spying on your competition. Competitive Intelligence by Andy Beal View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: pubcon pubcon2008) PS. The Matt Cutts reference? You'll see that at the end of the presentation. Pilgrim's Partners: Is a...
        • A Media Circus | 7 Ways to Get Me to NOT Join Your Social Network | Nov 19, 2008, 5:05pm: ...you (I recommend viewing this in full screen so you can read the text). 7 Ways to Get Me To Not Join Your Community View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: social+networking
        • A VC | Credit Crisis Slide Contest | Nov 20, 2008, 6:49am: ...top credit contest slideshow. There are a bunch of good ones. Here's my two favorites. Creditcrisis 30slides Final View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: capitalism mortgage) Credit Crisis to Collaborative Capitalism View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags:...
        • O'Reilly Radar | Web Meets World: Privacy and the Future of the Cloud | Nov 20, 2008, 6:00pm: ...so you can read the notes, which contain the text of the talk). Web Meets World: Privacy and the Future of the Cloud View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: ubicomp
        • Wikinomics | Unleashing Wikinomics in the City of Toronto | Nov 27, 2008, 2:01pm: ...who missed it, I've also posted my slides from yesterday's keynote. Unleasing Wikinomics in the City of Toronto View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: government services) 1. Mass collaboration could change virtually every aspect of government: From the way we deliver...
        • GigaOM | The iPhone and the Ensuing Wireless Broadband Boom | Nov 28, 2008, 3:21pm: ...limits on their "unlimited data offerings." US Wireless Market Q3 2008 Update Nov 2008 Chetan Sharma Consulting   View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: consulting
        • Wikinomics | A city that thinks like the web. | Dec 1, 2008, 10:38am: ...municipal goverment. A City That Thinks LIke the Web, Source: Mark Surman, http://commonspace.wordpress.com/ View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: gov2.0openweb 2.0 ) He ends his presentation with three simple challenges to City Hall: "1. Open our data. transit. library...
        • dailywireless.org | Clearwire: Let's be "Clear" | Dec 1, 2008, 10:51am: ...Modem with my 3Mbps Comcast Cable Modem tomorrow. US Wireless Market Q3 2008 Update Nov 2008 Chetan Sharma Consulting View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: consulting sharma) Related Clearwire and WiMax stories on Dailywireless include; Green Light for New Clearwire, iPCS...
        • Master of 500 Hats | Using Facebook / Social Platforms + NewsFeeds + Apps + Facebook Connect to Drive Content & Commerce | Dec 3, 2008, 1:55am: ...myself again, again). Facebook Big Pimping: Using Social Networks & Platforms to Drive Content & App Distribution View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: social network distribution) also, the last slide has links to some previous posts i've done on Facebook & related...
        • Bokardo | The Tyranny of Context | Dec 3, 2008, 9:37am: ...some ideas around designing for context, and its a good introduction to what surely will be a very deep iceburg. View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: communities
        • Read/Write Web | What if Amazon and iTunes Implemented Facebook Connect? | Dec 4, 2008, 7:59pm: ...to Chris Messina for finding this, as he finds so many things. Portable Social Graphs - Imagining their Potential View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: retail marketing) What Would You Like to See Social Network Data Used For? Filtering reviews or recommendations by your...
        • Web Strategy | Understanding Google's Strategy | Dec 5, 2008, 6:26am: All about Google View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: google technology) This slideshare presentation by French consulting firm faberNovel dissects Google's business model,...
        • Ton's Interdependent Thoughts | Online Educa Berlin - My Presentation | Dec 5, 2008, 8:28am: ...The slides I used are online at SlideShare of course as well as embedded below: Key-note Onlineduca Berlin Gen Y View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: onlineeduca oeb08) My presentation consisted basically consisted of these messages: 1) It is not very useful to talk about...
        • TechWag | Slide Share and Chinese Character Support Works | Dec 5, 2008, 10:30pm: ...consensus on machine translated text. Here is how the Chinese version came out. Case Studies In Social Media Chinese View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: blue jet) The English Language version looks like this: Case Studies In Social Media View SlideShare presentation or Upload...
        • Web Strategy | Imagine how Portable Social Graphs Will Impact the Web | Dec 6, 2008, 1:15pm: Portable Social Graphs - Imagining their Potential View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: retail marketing) Over one year ago, we defined the Social Graph as an online representation of our relationships. These...
        • Master of 500 Hats | Dave McClure & The Startup Metrics Revolution visit Tokyo, Japan (Fri 12/19) | Dec 6, 2008, 9:46pm: ...Metrics presentation (from Startonomics SF, Oct 2008): Startup Metrics For Pirates: AARRR! (Startonomics SF Oct 2008) View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: aarrr metrics) hope you'll join us for a fun session in Tokyo! NOTE: for Silicon Valley geeks who would like to tag...
        • Mashable | Revealed: Google's Plan for World Domination | Dec 7, 2008, 5:47pm: All about Google View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: google strategy) Here it is: Google's strategy to take over the world. Or at least, this is Google's plan according to...
        • A Media Circus | We, The Value Seekers! | Dec 8, 2008, 5:29pm: ...proof points that marketing dollars are being spent intelligently–and I just do not see it here. We The Savers View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: ing wethesavers.com ) Related articles by Zemanta How do you Find Passion Points & Create a Sustainable Relationship via...
        • Master of 500 Hats | Employees Suck. Don't Be One. Don't Hire One. | Dec 10, 2008, 11:19am: ...at LeWeb 2008 in Paris, about how to build incredible one-person companies that just don't suck: Employees Suck View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: le
        • Social Text | Social Productivity Tips: Status Reports | Dec 10, 2008, 5:56pm: ...level will aid those who hate status reports to spend less time on them. ;) Social Productivity Tips: Status Reports View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: enterprise2.0
        • Rex Blog | Joi Ito has captured and released some freesouls | Dec 13, 2008, 12:26pm: ...under a Creative Commons license, Oliver Ding was able to create this slide show explaining what a "FreeSoul" is: View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: joi_ito
        • Read/Write Web | SlideShare Presents Your Newest Social App: PowerPoint | Dec 16, 2008, 12:00am: ...and groups. User can also check their SlideShare statistics from within PowerPoint. Slideshare Ribbon Powerpoint View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: powerpoint microsoft) In short, SlideShare makes PowerPoint social. That's what makes this release so interesting....
        • Master of 500 Hats | SlideShare to Microsoft: "All Your Powerpoint Are Belong to Us." | Dec 16, 2008, 2:50am: ...a SlideShare investor /advisor... and i'm gonna be RICH, bee-atch!) Meet the SlideShare ribbon for PowerPoint View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: powerpoint microsoft) SlideShare Ribbon Demo from slideshare on Vimeo.
        • A Media Circus | Seven Strategies for Surviving the Downturn | Dec 16, 2008, 2:48pm: ...the presentation. Thanks to Jenn Kim–here it is! Fuel for Thought: Seven Strategies to Surviving the Downturn View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: fuel for thought geoff ramsey ) Related articles by Zemanta Exploring Social Media: Promoting Your Link Backs to You A...
        • Like It Matters | Kayak For Your Life | Dec 17, 2008, 2:17pm: ...as I want to explore this more in the new year. Under Sousveillance: Personal Informatics & Techniques of the Self View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags:
        • Master of 500 Hats | Silicon Valley 2.0: The Startup Metrics Revolution (Tokyo, Dec 2008) | Dec 18, 2008, 11:33pm: ...updated.  here is the latest & greatest: Silicon Valley 2.0: The Startup Metrics Revolution (Tokyo, Dec 2008) View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: dave.mcclure
        • Alec Saunders .LOG | SquawkBox December 9: InnerPass | Dec 19, 2008, 1:22pm: ...James Body, Bill Trail, Steve Parsloe, William Volk, and Sergio Meinardi . InnerPass SquawkBox Presentation.08-12-09 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Powered by
        • A Media Circus | Santa Focuses On Bran Muffins and Soy Milk | Dec 24, 2008, 8:29am: ...is how you use it! Overall Scores: Creativity: B+ Execution: A Conversational Strategy: B General Strategy: A- Claus View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: social media) Related articles by Zemanta 10 Not Simple Success Strategies for 2009 Modern Musicians Use Music Social...
        • Profy.Com | XDBE Project Promises to Present Global Social Graph in Early January | Dec 28, 2008, 9:30am: ...with all our multiple social networking accounts everywhere and how it will work: XdbE - Global Social Graphing View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: xdbe project) Of course the idea sounds like a good and very reasonable one but the potential problem here is quite obvious:...
        • Web Strategy | Event Summary: The Future of the Social Web | Jan 1, 2009, 3:22am: ...so we can learn from each other, and I can improve my research. Roundtable Event: The Future of the Social Web View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: future socialmedia) The embedded slideshare has more details about the event, if you've questions, leave a comment, I'll...
        • Social Text | Distributed Agile Development at Socialtext | Jan 9, 2009, 4:42pm: ...about is a collaborative creation of the whole Socialtext product development team. Socialtext Distributed Agile View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: qa
        • ReveNews | Offline Affiliate Marketing - Affiliate Summit West 2009 Session Report | Jan 12, 2009, 5:03am: ...some serious thought to when planning their strategy for the next two years. Future Of Affiliate Marketing Offline View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: summit
        • Content Wrangler | Convergence Technical Communication: Strategies for Incorporating Web 2.0 | Jan 12, 2009, 1:00pm: ...Users and Needs Before Creating the Help Deliverables" Documentation Planning and Library Design in a Web 2.0 World View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Using Journalistic Principles to Improve User Assistance Publish at Scribd or explore others:  Internet Technology journalism...
        • Silicon Alley Insider | Our Email To Kevin Rose Announcing The Fix Digg Contest Winner | Jan 12, 2009, 2:15pm: ...to Digg founder Kevin Rose and Keith's plan and resume. Congratulations Keith! How to Fix Digg's Miserable Business View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: tech internet) Keith Cowing Resume Publish at Scribd or explore others: See Also: Our Favorite Small, Simple Ideas For...
        • ReveNews | Affiliate Videos: Where Do They Work Best? " Affiliate Summit West 2009 Session Report | Jan 13, 2009, 11:34am: ...it can actually deter them from interacting with a site and its products. Future Of Affiliate Marketing Offline View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: summit
        • Read/Write Web | Could This Be Your All-in-One Social Network? | Jan 13, 2009, 4:01pm: ...to view. Ask from your dashboard for permission to connect with those contacts in new places. DiSo Dashboard Outline View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: outline diso) The idea is that the DiSO Dashboard would be a place to read, write, manage, make discoverable, connect and...
          • ]]> 12026651@http://shoutingmat.ch Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:59:31 EST BlackBerry Storm Review | Engadget http://tech.shoutingmat.ch/comments/13801519.html Nov 24, 2008, 5:23pm: "By now most of us have heard this story in one fashion or another: when Steve Jobs and Apple were in the planning stages of the iPhone, the first carrier they brought the device to was America's largest network, Verizon. Even if you haven't heard how the tale ends -- Verizon refused and Jobs took his multi-billion dollar ball to AT&T -- you surely know the outcome. The iPhone has soared to become the ultimate smartphone, the must-have accessory that everyone from celebrities to your mom wants -- nay, needs -- to have in their pocket. It's changed the landscape of modern cellphones, put a serious dent in the sales of competing devices (just recently overtaking the venerable RAZR as the best-selling domestic handset), and unquestionably raised the bar when it comes to expectations for features in new handsets."

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          • TechEBlog | BlackBerry Storm Hands-On | Nov 19, 2008, 7:21pm: ...push that both RIM and Verizon are giving the Storm that they view this as a proper threat to the iPhone's dominance in the smartphone market. [via Engadget]
          • Engadget Mobile | BlackBerry Storm review on Engadget! | Nov 19, 2008, 11:36pm: Filed under: Handsets, Features, RIM, Verizon Wireless, GSM, EDGE, EV-DO, HSDPA, UMTS, CDMA The most anticipated BlackBerry of the year (sorry, Bold)...
          • Tech Blog - Houston Chronicle | Linkpost | 11.20.2008 | Nov 20, 2008, 6:54am: ...violation of Apple's developer agreement. If so, how did it get into the App Store? • Verizon BlackBerry Storm review from Boy Genius Report and BlackBerry Storm review from Engadget - Reviews are decidedly mixed. The touch part feels grafted on, not something fully integrated. And, no Wi-Fi. • If Twitter...
          • Broadband Reports | Storm Reviews Come Rolling In - General consensus: not quite an iPhone killer | Nov 20, 2008, 9:51am: ...the device "awkward and disappointing," noting that the device's click-touch screen is "more confusing than helpful" and a "failed experiment." Engadget seems to think the device is beautiful, but notes that the Storm is "not as easy, enjoyable, or consistent to use as the iPhone," and the...
          • Mobility Site | Blackberry Storm Reviews Everywhere... | Nov 20, 2008, 10:13am: ...ties, we'd cover it a bit more, but we don't. So, let me direct your attention to a plethora of links related to the Blackberry Storm… BlackBerry Storm review - Engadget BlackBerry Storm Review (Verdict: Not Quite a Perfect Storm) Review: BlackBerry Storm : Is It Your Type? (Phone Scoop) Mossberg Video Review...
          • Luca Filigheddu | BlackBerry Bold vs BlackBerry Storm | Nov 20, 2008, 10:45am: ...It looks like the new BlackBerry Storm is way behind the expectations and doesn't offer the same experience the direct rival iPhone offers. Here is a video showing how the BlackBerry Bold is way faster than the Storm. Thanks Alec for pointing this out. What will business users choose? Technorati...
          • FORTUNE: Apple 2.0 | BlackBerry Storm: The reviews are in | Nov 20, 2008, 10:45am: ...typing on the Storm's keyboard to be very similar to using the keyboard of a traditional full-sized BlackBerry." ( link) Joshua Topolsky. Engadget. BlackBerry Storm review: "The selling points are easy: the phone is gorgeous to look at and hold, it's designed and backed by RIM (now almost a household name thanks...
          • Engadget Mobile | Google Sync for BlackBerry gets into your contacts | Nov 20, 2008, 11:43am: ...one in your 'Berry are apparently at an end. Sure, Google's timing on this seems a little convenient to us, coming as it does just before the BlackBerry Storm launch, but we're not going to complain about something that makes ours lives easier, okay? [Thanks to everyone who sent this in] Google Sync...
          • dailywireless.org | Verizon's Blackberry Storm | Nov 20, 2008, 2:44pm: ...Y device." Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan - "The Storm is a strong effort from RIM, but it's not quite the killer phone that they or Verizon need it to be." Engadget's Joshua Topolsky - "Ultimately, this could be a great platform with a little more time in the oven, but right now, it feels undercooked." Mobile Tech Review -...
          • Good Morning Silicon Valley | Storm debuts to partly cloudy reviews | Nov 20, 2008, 3:07pm: ...them, particularly regarding one of the phone's signature features, touchscreen typing with tactile feedback. A sampling: * Joshua Topolsky at Engadget: "The selling points are easy: the phone is gorgeous to look at and hold, it's designed and backed by RIM (now almost a household name thanks...
          • Todd Watson | Blackberry Storm: No Threat to the iPhone? | Nov 20, 2008, 3:12pm: ...I would still suggest AT&T and other carriers be in a position to have a definitive answer to the question. In any case, after reading the Engadget review of the Blackberry Storm, one would have to give pause before flying down to one's local Verizon outlet. The concern that concerns me most is...
          • Into Mobile | Verizon BlackBerry Storm Getting Mixed Reviews | Nov 20, 2008, 4:02pm: ...this could be a great platform with a little more time in the oven, but right now, it feels undercooked — and that's not enough for us. - Engadget The BlackBerry Storm is not perfect, but, in my humble opinion, it is the best BlackBerry yet. … There were definitely some bugs with...
          • Engadget Mobile | Verizon XV6900 update leaks, brings WinMo 6.1 and Opera Mobile | Nov 20, 2008, 4:30pm: ...HTC, Verizon Wireless, Windows Mobile, EV-DO, CDMA Still clutching your trusty XV6900, are you? Not heading out in a few hours to secure yourself a Storm? If you're the mettlesome type, you can surf on over to PhoneNews and suck down the latest and greatest (and unofficial) software update for...
          • TechWag | Engadget gets a Black Berry Storm | Nov 20, 2008, 6:52pm: ...could be a great platform with a little more time in the oven, but right now, it feels undercooked — and that's not enough for us. Source: engadget Rarely do I believe what other folks say, but engadget carries some weight here, and given the level of detail they went to, and that it is...
          • Engadget Mobile | BlackBerry Storm now available on Verizon | Nov 21, 2008, 4:11am: Filed under: Handsets, RIM, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA You've read the review, now Verizon's BlackBerry Storm is available for purchase for $200 on two-year contract. Really, what's left to say -- you're either ready to...
          • Engadget | BlackBerry Storm now available on Verizon | Nov 21, 2008, 4:11am: You've read the review, now Verizon's BlackBerry Storm is available for purchase for $200 on two-year contract. Really, what's left to say -- you're either ready to...
          • Engadget Mobile | Samsung Omnia makes official Verizon appearance | Nov 21, 2008, 10:25am: ...here, but Samsung's Omnia is indeed coming to Verizon Wireless. 'Course, most everyone with any remote affiliation to Big Red is frenzied over that other phone today, but those with a soft spot for Windows Mobile 6.1 may want to give this one a bit of attention. You know the highlight specs by now --...
          • Engadget | Samsung Omnia makes official Verizon appearance | Nov 21, 2008, 10:25am: ...here, but Samsung's Omnia is indeed coming to Verizon Wireless. 'Course, most everyone with any remote affiliation to Big Red is frenzied over that other phone today, but those with a soft spot for Windows Mobile 6.1 may want to give this one a bit of attention. You know the highlight specs by now --...
          • Engadget | Engadget Podcast 119 - 11.21.2008 | Nov 21, 2008, 2:30pm: ...of information is yours free of charge! Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Paul Miller, and Nilay Patel Producer: Trent Wolbe Music: Paranoid 00:02:25 - BlackBerry Storm review 00:32:35 - Psystar's antitrust claims against Apple dismissed 00:53:59 - Microsoft revamps Zune Pass: keep ten tracks per month forever and...
          • Engadget | BlackBerry Storm's clickable screen (and the rest of it) dissected, exposed | Nov 22, 2008, 4:30pm: So you've read our extensive BlackBerry Storm review and, despite feeling disappointment about it not living up to the hype, can't help but wonder just what makes the thing tick click. While we...
          • Engadget Mobile | BlackBerry Storm's clickable screen (and the rest of it) dissected, exposed | Nov 22, 2008, 4:30pm: Filed under: Handsets, RIM So you've read our extensive BlackBerry Storm review and, despite feeling disappointment about it not living up to the hype, can't help but wonder just what makes the thing tick click. While we...
          • Apple Gazette | VIDEO: Blackberry Storm vs. iPhone web browsing | Nov 24, 2008, 6:10am: The Blackberry Storm was recently launched, and there have been lines waiting for it, product shortages, and some surprisingly mixed reviews. Engadget has a very comprehensive look at the phone that makes it clear that the device still needs some work if it's going to be a true iPhone rival....
          • TUAW | The Blackberry Storm - An iPhone 'Killer'? | Nov 25, 2008, 8:00am: ...many of the tasks I use on a daily basis. What follows is by no means scientific, nor is it an in-depth review of the Storm. I'll leave that to Engadget. These are just my observations and impressions as an iPhone and Mac user when also using a Storm to accomplish the same tasks. Continue...
          • Engadget | BlackBerry Storm vs. knife blade... Fight! | Dec 4, 2008, 3:56am: ...the guy who first drank from a cow's mammary organ or the equally daring person who took the point from the knife above to the display of his new BlackBerry Storm. In either case, the results are tasty. See for yourself in the video after the break. [Thanks, Mike] Continue reading BlackBerry Storm vs....
          • Seeking Alpha - Gadgets stocks | RIM's Storm is a Washout | Dec 5, 2008, 5:04am: ...I haven’t been able to find who made the browser, but this is not the WebKit-quality browser found on the iPhone and S60. The performance claimed in Endgadget was unrecognizable: Thankfully the browser has been considerably updated. If you have any experience with RIM's last attempt at...
          • Engadget | BlackBerry Storm OTA update now available on Verizon | Dec 8, 2008, 5:53pm: ...Manager application; now, Storm owners can suck down v4.7.0.75 without a liaison. Early reports are pretty positive, with jkOnTheRun noting that the troublesome lag that came bundled with the handset was now all but history. The 14MB download (plus installation) is said to take around 20 to 30 minutes, so...
          • Engadget Mobile | BlackBerry Storm OTA update now available on Verizon | Dec 8, 2008, 5:53pm: ...Manager application; now, Storm owners can suck down v4.7.0.75 without a liaison. Early reports are pretty positive, with jkOnTheRun noting that the troublesome lag that came bundled with the handset was now all but history. The 14MB download (plus installation) is said to take around 20 to 30 minutes, so...
          • Engadget | BlackBerry Storm buyer's remorse? You're not alone! | Dec 18, 2008, 11:29am: We tried to warn you, but you just didn't want to hear it. "How bad could it be?" you muttered to yourself, as you handed over a summer's worth of lawn mowing...
          • Engadget | Engadget's top posts, 2008 | Dec 31, 2008, 11:59pm: ...conference iPhone 3G is finally official, starts at $199, available July 11th The second-gen iPhone: 3G, GPS, only slightly thicker iPhone 3G review BlackBerry Storm review Meet the T-Mobile G1 Sony Ericsson's XPERIA X1 QWERTY with Windows Mobile and HSUPA Woman files $54m lawsuit against Best Buy for losing...
            • ]]> 13801519@http://shoutingmat.ch Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:23:58 EST Search Millions of Historic Photos | Google Images http://tech.shoutingmat.ch/comments/13733994.html Dec 19, 2008, 7:00pm: "Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."

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            • Official Google Blog | LIFE Photo Archive available on Google Image Search | Nov 18, 2008, 11:17am: ...to bring offline images online was inspired by our mission to organize all the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. This collection of newly-digitized images includes photos and etchings produced and owned by LIFE dating all the way back to the 1750s. Only a very small...
            • Mashable | LIFE Magazine Photo Archives Arrive in Google Image Search | Nov 18, 2008, 12:18pm: Google has just added image archives from LIFE Magazine, the storied American photo journal, to its image search. Google Images has launched a special page for the collection, allowing you to browse photos by specific topic like Marilyn Monroe or Winter Olympics. You can also now append...
            • Google Blogoscoped | Google's Life Photo Archive | Nov 18, 2008, 1:13pm: Google together with Life magazine has published a photo archive of, according to Google, around 2 million photos (with around 8 million supposed to be released in the future). Many of these photos have...
            • Compiler - Wired | Google Makes Life Magazine Photo Archives Searchable | Nov 18, 2008, 1:38pm: Looking for a time suck? Google has put the entire catalog of Life magazine photographs online and (of course) made it fully searchable. More than a million historic Life images are hosted on a special section of the Google Images site,...
            • Rex Blog | LIFE photo archive hosted by Google | Nov 18, 2008, 3:18pm: Grand Ole Opry, 1946 I'm in the midst of a great meeting (really, no kidding) so I don't have time to give this LIFE photo archive hosted by Google a...
            • Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim | Google Image Search + LIFE's Photo Archive | Nov 18, 2008, 4:46pm: You guys remember LIFE magazine, right? Known as a scion of glossy photojournalism, Life was published in one form or another until last year (with a...
            • Cult of Mac | Life Photo Archive Pictures Steve Jobs Through The Years | Nov 18, 2008, 5:35pm: There's loads of wonderful stuff in the Google LIFE photo archive, and Gruber's warning is apt indeed: it's a time-sink. Needless to say, Apple has a presence within that archive. How many times has Steve...
            • Valley Wag | Google makes it easy to rip off Life Magazine [Blogging For Dollars] | Nov 18, 2008, 6:40pm: Pictures from Life's centuries-old archives will now be available as part of Google Image Search. The images will be hosted on Google servers, however they carry no clear usage instructions. At least it's now easier for bloggers to spice...
            • Paid Content | Life Photo Archive Goes Live On Google; Advertising To Follow | Nov 18, 2008, 11:19pm: The never-ending effort to make every possible cent from Life magazine continues with today's launch of the Life Photo Archive on Google ( NSDQ: GOOG...
            • Micro Persuasion | links for 2008-11-19 | Nov 19, 2008, 5:05am: ...Marketing Examples The most useful page on the web - and continually updated too. (tags: CaseStudies socialmedia PR marketing Web2.0 Advertising) LIFE photo archive hosted by Google "Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today" (tags: Google images Search Magazines...
            • Google Operating System | Google Hosts LIFE Photo Collection | Nov 19, 2008, 12:55pm: ...books from public libraries and newspaper archives. Google Image Search's index will increase with about 10 million high-quality images from the Life Magazine's photo archive. "This collection of newly-digitized images includes photos and etchings produced and owned by LIFE dating all the way back to the 1750s....
            • Make | LIFE photo archive - through a maker lens | Nov 20, 2008, 2:00pm: The LIFE photo archive hosted by Google has a ton of lovely gems, here are a few I found that I really liked - all through a "MAKE" filter... The contents assiting the Atomic Energy...
            • Marc's Voice | Getting ready for Turkey day '08 | Nov 21, 2008, 12:20am: ...It's not a matter if but when Google will cut off Mozilla's oxygen supply. I wonder if Boxee's business model is white labeling or what? A great example of persistent ubiquitous content - the Time magazine photo archive. How coolio is that? Twilio,
            • FactoryCity | Bookmarks for November 10 to November 24 | Nov 30, 2008, 3:02am: ...service online, including the Turk-driven Casting Words, though you p Tags: transcription, audio, mechanicalturk, turk, howto, via:mento.info LIFE photo archive hosted by Google "Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now...
            • Silicon Alley Insider | The Way We Were: Engineers And Computers, 1940s - 1990s | Dec 6, 2008, 11:06am: START Something about celebrating Repeal Day last night has us nostalgic. And, now that Google (GOOG) hosts defunct Life magazine's massive photo archive (Qoop makes them available for purchase ) it's easier than ever to indulge our longing for a time when the future of the world rested on the...
            • Smart Mobs | Rioting mob of Luddites - smart or not | Dec 9, 2008, 5:24pm: The picture is an engraving of a rioting mob of Luddites from the new Google LIFE photo archive. The archive gives this information on the image: Engraving of a rioting mob of Luddites, British workers who were opposed to increasing mechanization of jobs, as depicted by...
            • Micro Persuasion | How Google is Unlocking the Hidden Ad Value in Old Media | Dec 10, 2008, 1:56pm: ...back issues of New York Magazine. Google News likewise recently digitized old newspapers and Google Image Search has done the same in bringing the complete Life Magazine photo database online So media companies are increasingly partnering with Google to bring their entire back catalog of content online. Right now only Google Book...
            • Google Blogoscoped | On Google Disallowing Crawling of Their LIFE Hosting | Jan 6, 2009, 2:21pm: Isn't it great how Google makes millions of photos available to the world in their LIFE photo archive? Well – with one exception: they disallow other search engines to access these photos. The same access rights that make Google Image...
              • ]]> 13733994@http://shoutingmat.ch Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:00:00 EST Hogan's Litvack Discusses Google/Yahoo | AM Law Daily http://tech.shoutingmat.ch/comments/14379689.html Dec 03, 2008, 4:01pm: "Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. called off their joint advertising agreement just three hours before the Department of Justice planned to file antitrust charges to block the pact, according to the lawyer who would have been lead counsel for the government."

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              • The Technology Chronicles | Google-Justice Department showdown over Yahoo averted with only 3 hours to go | Dec 3, 2008, 4:01pm: ...between the No. 1 and No. 2 search engines - which control 90 percent of U.S. search advertising - would harm competition. The revelation came in an article published Tuesday in American Lawyer Daily, which interviewed Sanford Litvack, an attorny brought on by the government from private practice...
              • Seeking Alpha - Internet stocks | Google Was Only 3 Hours from Being Charged with Monopoly | Dec 3, 2008, 10:25pm: ...away from filing an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal. Sandy Litvack, the prosecutor hired by the Justice Department to head up the case, tells Am Law Daily: We were going to file the complaint at a certain time during the day. We told them we were going to file the complaint at that time of day....
              • Digital Daily | Congratulations Google, You're the New Microsoft | Dec 4, 2008, 12:18am: ...have been lead counsel in the event of a government antitrust case against Google, tells American Lawyer Daily that the Department of Justice was literally hours away from suing the company when it bailed on the deal. "We were going to file the complaint at a certain time during the day," he explains. "We told them we were going to file the complaint at...
              • Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim | Why Google is Just One Deal Away from Being Labeled a Monopoly | Dec 4, 2008, 9:42am: ...despite Google's attempts to prove a Yahoo deal would not create a monopoly, the perception of a monopoly would likely scuttle the deal. Today, we learn that the Department of Justice was just 3 hours away from filing antitrust charges against Google: "We were going to file the complaint at a...
              • Clickz | DOJ Was Rarin' to Sue as Google Scuttled Yahoo Deal | Dec 4, 2008, 12:39pm: ...Department come to filing anti-trust charges against Google and Yahoo over their search advertising deal? About three hours close, according to an Am Law Daily interview with Sanford Litvack, the bulldog litigator hired by the DOJ to investigate the outsourcing agreement. "We were going to file the complaint...
              • InfoWorld | Google called off Yahoo deal as DOJ closed in | Dec 4, 2008, 2:32pm: ...of Justice was to file an antitrust complaint on Nov. 5 aimed at blocking it, according to the lawyer that the government hired to pursue the case. In an interview with the legal blog AMLaw Daily published Dec. 2, Sanford Litvack -- the attorney who would have been the lead counsel on the antitrust case...
              • Epicenter -Wired | DOJ Ace: Google Dodged Monopoly Lawsuit By 3 Hours | Dec 4, 2008, 4:01pm: ...brought on by the feds to investigate the deal. "We were going to file the complaint at a certain time during the day," Sandy Litvack told AmLawDaily, a legal blog produced by the American Lawyer magazine. "We told them we were going to file the complaint at that time of day. Three...
              • Search Blog | Well, That Says It All | Dec 4, 2008, 9:18pm: From American Lawyer: Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. called off their joint advertising agreement just three hours before the Department of Justice planned to file...
              • Seeking Alpha - Internet stocks | DOJ Ace: Google Dodged a Monopoly Lawsuit by Three Hours | Dec 5, 2008, 3:28am: ...brought on by the feds to investigate the deal. "We were going to file the complaint at a certain time during the day," Sandy Litvack told AmLawDaily, a legal blog produced by the American Lawyer magazine. "We told them we were going to file the complaint at that time of day. Three...
              • TechWag | Shareholders value added or not | Dec 5, 2008, 9:03pm: ...a perfect takeover candidate. When the CEO thinks that the deal is bad, and that there are better deals on the table or in the works (such as the aborted Google Yahoo deal that was hours away from a DOJ injunction). We also need to understand as shareholders, we can advise, admonish, vote for a new board of...
                • ]]> 14379689@http://shoutingmat.ch Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:01:46 EST Google Layoffs - 10,000 Workers Affected | Webguild Silicon Valley http://tech.shoutingmat.ch/comments/13982585.html Nov 24, 2008, 2:14pm: "Google has been quietly laying off staff and up to 10,000 jobs could be on the chopping block according to sources. Since August, hundreds of employees have been laid off and there are reports that about 500 of them were recruiters for Google."

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                • Search Blog | Did You Used to Work at Google? Laid Off? | Nov 24, 2008, 11:37am: I am not so sure about articles like this one, which claim Google is quietly laying off 10,000 workers (all contract but still full time), but has not a single direct source. If this is true, why, ping me here or in email. If 10K of you are...
                • HipMojo | Google Layoffs: How to Reverse a 55% Stock Decline | Nov 24, 2008, 2:14pm: The inevitable is happening: Google to lay off people, up to 10,000 affected.  Here is a look at Google's headcount: Google reports to the SEC that it has 20,123 employees but in reality...
                • Valley Wag | Google to lay off 10,000? [Rumormonger] | Nov 24, 2008, 3:55pm: "Up to 10,000 jobs could be on the chopping block according to sources," writes Daya Baran. Can I just say it? No. Google will not dump 10,000 of its roughly 30,000 workforce. "Sources" are wrong, although Baran's tales of Google...
                • Today @ PC World | Google Layoffs: 10,000 Jobs Being Cut, Report Claims | Nov 24, 2008, 5:34pm: ...Claims JR Raphael, PC World Google may be preparing to lay off thousands of workers, if a Silicon Valley information service is to be believed. WebGuild cites anonymous inside sources as saying up to 10,000 Google jobs could be on the way out, with smaller scale layoffs already underway. Quiet...
                • Venture Beat | Google stock rains on the tech rally parade | Nov 24, 2008, 5:44pm: ...patent infringement of the web browser used on the iPhone, and its stock still rose over 12 percent. The more obvious thing to blame is the rumor of big layoffs (around 10,000) happening at Google. But it's not yet clear if these cuts are really happening, and it seems highly unlikely it would be such a huge number. (We've inquired with...
                • CNET News.com | Google cutting contractor workforce | Nov 24, 2008, 5:55pm: ...Monday. The news, though, isn't as fresh as it might appear at first blush. The contractor cut story made the rounds Monday after publication of a Silicon Valley WebGuild story with the alarming headline of "Google Layoffs - 10,000 Workers Affected." The 10,000 number and Google's efforts to reduce it, though,...
                • Venture Beat | Google laying off 10,000? Maybe " lose the extra 0 | Nov 24, 2008, 6:02pm: ...lighting up today with rumors of big layoffs at search giant Google. The most eye-catching story appeared on WebGuild, which cites anonymous sources claiming that up to 10,000 jobs "could be on the chopping block." Now, the only official word I have from Google is the standard "We don't comment on rumors," but my gut reaction is that no matter how badly...
                • Zoli's Blog | Google Layoffs May Affect 30k Workers. Sort of... | Nov 24, 2008, 7:35pm: Google Layoffs - 10,000 Workers Affected reports WebGuild with a bombastic title.  I can beat that: all Google workers will be affected, at least emotionally.  As to what...
                • Profy.Com | Layoffs in Google – Bad but Probably Reasonable | Nov 25, 2008, 1:15am: Rumor of the day today is that even Google is not as immune to the recession as we used to believe with 500 people already laid off and a total of 10 thousand to be...
                • MarketingVOX | Google to Cut 10,000, Sources Say | Nov 25, 2008, 7:30am: ...ad opportunities for both Google-branded sites and YouTube. But now as many as 10,000 jobs may be "on the chopping block," according to a WebGuild report, citing sources close to the company. 500 employees laid off since August were apparently only contracted recruiters, but they — in...
                • MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer Video | GM lets Tiger go: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer November 25, 2008 | Nov 25, 2008, 8:08am: ...is sleeping with a dead person. This is exactly the type of programming that helps in decreasing television ad spending. Google is in the midst of a massive round of layoffs, which could tally 10,000. The "Don't Be Evil" corporation has been quietly firing people since August, reportedly 500 of them being...
                • Seeking Alpha - Internet stocks | Google Layoffs: How to Reverse a 55% Stock Decline | Nov 25, 2008, 8:38am: The inevitable is happening: Google ( GOOG) is about to lay off people, up to 10,000 could be affected. Here is a look at Google’s headcount:Google reports to the SEC that it has 20,123 employees but...
                • Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim | Google Job Cuts: Creative HR or Pure Speculation? | Nov 25, 2008, 9:24am: ...but in light of the economic woes of many large corporations we cant be that surprised that Google could be laying workers off.  An article over at WebGuild speculates that Google's job cuts were affecting nearly 10,000 workers. Note the article says it "affects" nearly 10,000 workers.  If you...
                • The Boy Genius Report | Google is trimming "operational expenses"; read layoffs | Nov 25, 2008, 1:15pm: Regardless of how large, powerful and influential a company is, no one is recession-proof. Internet search giant Google has been laying off employees...
                • Smalltalk Tidbits | Layoffs, and Rumors of Layoffs | Nov 25, 2008, 1:43pm: The economic news is bad enough, but now we're seeing outright fear mongering. Yesterday, WebGuild reported that Google was laying off 10,000 - and the headline was a bit misleading, as the post itself spoke of contractors being gotten rid...
                  • ]]> 13982585@http://shoutingmat.ch Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:14:21 EST Confirmed: iPhone 3g Coming to Wal-Mart on December 28th, Select Sam's Club Stores as Well | Boy Genius Report http://tech.shoutingmat.ch/comments/13763875.html Nov 18, 2008, 11:07pm: "Shortly after we posted about the iPhone coming to Wal-Mart this morning, it seemed like all of our ninjas came out of the woodwork to bombard us with info. Rather than post an update, we want to lay out what is now confirmed info. First and foremost, it looks like Wal-Mart will indeed begin selling the iPhone 3G on December 28th in select locations only. When all is said and done, about 2,500 locations will offer the iPhone 3G. Some stores will also be getting live demo units to display just like Best Buy Mobile. What's more, we're also now getting word that 69 Sam's Club locations (locations that use the Wal-Mart ordering system, not the Radio Shack ordering system) will offer the handset as well - also beginning on the 28th. As Sam's Club is a division of Wal-Mart, this certainly makes sense. Unfortunately it looks like everyone is still in the dark with regards to pricing and we expect it to stay that way to avoid slowing MSRP iPhone sales during the holidays. Won't people be happy when they find out Apple's handsets popped up at discount prices three short days after Christmas? Hit the jump for some internal Wal-Mart correspondence."

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                  • Tech Blog - Houston Chronicle | Linkpost | 11.19.2008 | Nov 19, 2008, 7:36am: ...p.m. • Mac Malware Markeshare Myths - Joe Wilcox convincingly disputes the notion of Mac security through obscurity by invoking Windows Vista. • Confirmed: iPhone 3G coming to Wal-Mart on December 28th, select Sam's Club stores as well • Ziff Davis To Close PCMag Print; Focus on Online; Still Looking For Options For Gaming Division - Print edition of legendary computer...
                  • iLounge | News: Report: Wal-Mart to sell iPhone 3G starting December 28 | Nov 19, 2008, 9:58am: ...iPhone 3G starting December 28 By Charles Starrett Senior Editor, iLounge Published: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 News Category: iPhone Wal-Mart will begin offering the iPhone 3G at select Wal-Mart and Sam's Club locations on December 28, according to a supposed internal company memo posted online. The...
                  • FORTUNE: Apple 2.0 | Wal-Mart's post-Christmas iPhone sale | Nov 19, 2008, 10:13am: The mystery of Steve Jobs' iPhone retail strategy deepens with reports that Apple ( AAPL) will begin selling its smartphones at Wal-Mart ( WMT) three days after Christmas. According to the Boy Genius Report, a...
                  • Silicon Alley Insider | Apple To Sell iPhone At Wal-Mart? Sure, Why Not? (AAPL) | Nov 19, 2008, 11:00am: ...After adding Best Buy (BBY) in August, Apple could be offering the iPhone at Wal-Mart (WMT) stores beginning in late December. That is, if a memo obtained by mobile blog Boy Genius Report is real. The note purports that the iPhone will go on sale at Wal-Mart and some Sam's Club stores on Dec. 28. (Bizarre date, but not a...
                  • Valley Wag | Walmart to kill iPhone's cool on December 28 [Rumormonger] | Nov 19, 2008, 11:28am: I'm skeptical, but Boy Genius Report has what's supposed to be an internal document from Walmart. It details the launch timeline to begin selling iPhones at Walmart on December 28. Here's what nags at me: Why not start the day after...
                  • Digital Daily | iPhones at Wal-Mart Are Fine. But Steve Draws the Line at QVC. | Nov 19, 2008, 11:30am: ...-Mart (WMT) will be leaving the big-box retailer not just with vacuum cleaners and massage cushions, but with iPhones as well. Boy Genius reports that Apple's (AAPL) iconic phone will begin arriving at select Wal-Mart locations on Dec. 28. "We are pleased to announce that Wal-Mart has reached agreement with Apple to offer iPhone 3G in Wal-Mart and Wal-Mart-managed Sam's Club...
                  • Today @ PC World | iPhone 3G Coming to Wal-Mart, Report Claims | Nov 19, 2008, 12:06pm: ...PC World Wal-Mart will begin selling the iPhone 3G this December, a report published online Wednesday claims. The story, published at tech blog The Boy Genius Report and attributed to a leaked internal memo, says select Wal-Mart stores will start carrying the iPhone 3G right after the holiday rush, on...
                  • 9 to 5 Mac | It isn't just Costco, Wal*Mart/Sam's Club in on the iPhone action | Nov 19, 2008, 12:06pm: According to BGR's non-insured Walmart ninjas, the iPhone isn't just going to Costco after Christmas, it is going to Mr. Walton's lil' franchise.  The move is likely to clear out excess holiday inventories and is expected to drop the price to $149, just like at Cosco....
                  • Cult of Mac | Reports: Wal-Mart To Sell iPhone Starting Dec. 28 | Nov 19, 2008, 12:34pm: ...begin selling the iPhone Dec. 28, a move raising some eyebrows while also expanding Apple's retail strategy, according to other experts. An AT&T memo obtained by the Boy Genius Report outlined plans to offer the iPhone first in select Wal-Mart and Sam's Club locations, followed by...
                  • Infinite Loop | iPhone 3G may be on its way to Walmart after holidays | Nov 19, 2008, 12:36pm: ...by 2008, it's supposedly going to branch out even further with another major retail partner: Walmart. According to an internal memo obtained by Boy Genius Report, Walmart is gearing up to begin selling the iPhone 3G in 2,500 locations, the bulk of its placement, on December 28. The device will also...
                  • One More Thing - CNET | Wal-Mart to carry iPhone after holidays? | Nov 19, 2008, 12:55pm: ...retailer in the world could be getting the iPhone. Wal-Mart won't have the iPhone at every location come the end of December, if a report from the Boy Genius Report is accurate. But Apple ...
                  • TUAW | Walmart will sell iPhones starting Dec. 28 | Nov 19, 2008, 1:00pm: ...particular item: the iPhone. It will begin selling the handset December 28, according to Jamie Townsend, of research firm JRPG. Boy Genius Report also notes that the phone will be sold in some Sam's Club stores as well. The blog broke the news about Walmart's talks with Apple, but originally said...
                  • BloggingStocks: AAPL | Apple iPhone may be coming to Wal-Mart in just over a month | Nov 20, 2008, 12:12pm: Filed under: Deals, Apple Inc (AAPL), Wal-Mart (WMT) It was just a matter of time. It looks like the Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 3G will be coming to Wal-Mart sometime before the end of the year, but probably after Christmas. According to the Boy Genius Report, which claims its sources are reliable...
                  • MarketingVOX | Wal-Mart to Sell iPhone " After Christmas | Nov 24, 2008, 7:28am: ...to Sell iPhone — After Christmas Watch for falling prices Wal-Mart plans to offer the iPhone 3G in select stores three days after Christmas, according to Boy Genius Report. An internal document, sent to sales associates to prepare them for execution on Dec. 28th, confirmed the rumor. About...
                  • FORTUNE: Apple 2.0 | Anatomy of a rumor: Wal-Mart's $99 iPhone | Dec 8, 2008, 1:04pm: ...Apple's ( AAPL) iPhone originated with Boy Genius, although the date that sales would begin was fuzzy until a Boy Genius reporter got his hands on an AT&T memo spelling out the timeline for in-store training  and national rollout. ( link) The $99 iPhone rumor, although originating from the same...
                  • Wall Street Journal Biz Tech | The iPhone May Come to Wal-Mart, But Likely Not for $99 | Dec 11, 2008, 6:18pm: ...by some pretty good evidence. The smaller, cheaper part? Not so much. Coming soon to Wal-Mart, probably The rumors began in mid November, when the Boy Genius Report posted the contents of what it said was an internal Wal-Mart document detailing plans to start selling the iPhone on December 28. The site...
                  • The Boy Genius Report | Reconfirming confirmed confirmation: iPhone coming to Walmart | Dec 17, 2008, 9:31am: ...Whew! For a bit of background in case you've been hiding from the economy in your basement for the past few months, BGR scooped it back in October, served it in November and then stirred it up a little in December. So far it's looking like everything is falling right into place as a new letter emerges,...
                  • The Boy Genius Report | Wal-Mart finally confirms iPhone 3G | Dec 26, 2008, 2:00pm: It took a while, but Wal-Mart has finally gotten around to confirming what we've all known for over a month now: the iPhone 3G will be sold at Wal-Mart beginning this Sunday. Thanks to the Wal-Mart deal, Apple now has a direct avenue into a host of new...
                  • The Boy Genius Report | And so it begins: iPhone 3G now available at Wal-Mart | Dec 28, 2008, 11:07am: ...by some as the last nail in the coffin as far as the odd misconception that owning an iPhone is a status symbol is concerned. Whatever the case, 2,500 Wal-Marts and 69 Sam's Clubs around the country are now stocked with iPhone 3G handsets ripe for the picking. So who's headed to Wal-Mart today for some "discounted"...
                    • ]]> 13763875@http://shoutingmat.ch Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:07:02 EST Google Admits Breaking App Store Rules | Cnet News http://tech.shoutingmat.ch/comments/14070606.html Nov 26, 2008, 8:14am: "Google acknowledged breaking the official rules of Apple's iPhone software development kit when it created the latest version of the Google Mobile application for the iPhone, but denied a more serious charge."

                    Link referenced in 14 sources:

                    • Tech Blog - Houston Chronicle | Linkpost | 11.26.2008 | Nov 26, 2008, 8:14am: ...Apple made to drop iPhone advert - Britain's advertising standards panel says iPhone ad claiming "really fast" 3G speeds is misleading. • Google admits breaking App Store rules - Its new voice search feature makes calls to undocumented APIs in the iPhone, which is forbidden by Apple's rules. • Google silences Gmail...
                    • Silicon Alley Insider | Google: Yes, We Broke iPhone App Store Rules (GOOG) | Nov 26, 2008, 10:20am: ...iPhone app, which is officially against Apple's rules. Meanwhile, CNet scribe Tom Krazit thought to pick up the phone and see what Google had to say. He writes: "A Google spokesman confirmed Tuesday that Google Mobile uses undocumented APIs (application programming interfaces) in order to use the...
                    • Engadget | Confirmed: Google was naughty, broke App Store rules with iPhone app | Nov 26, 2008, 1:25pm: Okay, any talk that consistency in Apple's approval process for the App Store has improved definitely has to be put on hold at this point; first we...
                    • Engadget Mobile | Confirmed: Google was naughty, broke App Store rules with iPhone app | Nov 26, 2008, 1:25pm: Filed under: Software, Apple, OS X Okay, any talk that consistency in Apple's approval process for the App Store has improved definitely has to be...
                    • TUAW | Google: Yeah, we did use an undocumented API. So what? | Nov 26, 2008, 1:30pm: ...to dive into places that most developers aren't really supposed to go. And it turns out that the former is true: Google says to CNET that, yeah, they used undocumented APIs. What are you going to do about it? They're not using private frameworks at all, and apparently Apple isn't even part of the situation --...
                    • mocoNews.net | Google's iPhone App Runs Afoul of Apple's Rules | Nov 26, 2008, 2:44pm: ...( NSDQ: AAPL ) doesn't allow companies to use undocumented APIs to develop applications, and in Google's latest application release, it used one. CNet confirmed today that Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) used an undocumented API in order to add a nifty feature, which allows the phone to sense that you want to conduct...
                    • CrunchGear | Google drops truth bomb over iPhone API | Nov 26, 2008, 4:22pm: ...in the troops to put down the rebellion. Honesty, it seems, would be their weapon of choice. Not like they care what you think, but they totally did break the API, on purpose and everything. All is not lost, however, as the spokesman referred all questions and comments to the palm of his hand. It's not...
                    • PDA (Guardian Unlimited) | PDA's Newsbucket | Nov 27, 2008, 5:42pm: ...Yahoo Buzz trip over StumbleUpon? > > Mashable • ABC of guardian.co.uk R2: Home page > > Guardian • Google admits breaking App Store rules > > CNET News Via delicious Digital media guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms &...
                    • CNET News.com | Intel rethinks Netbooks: 'Fine for an hour' but... | Nov 28, 2008, 7:00am: ...it. Send e-mail Cancel Warning! You will be deleting this comment and all its replies (if applicable). Click to delete FOREVER Cancel Most Popular Google admits breaking App Store rules Five big things Microsoft got right Internet worm exploits Windows vulnerability Thanksgiving parade gets a live 'Rickroll' Video: A jet-pack...
                    • CNET News.com | Gaming the next pandemic | Nov 28, 2008, 9:00am: ...it. Send e-mail Cancel Warning! You will be deleting this comment and all its replies (if applicable). Click to delete FOREVER Cancel Most Popular Google admits breaking App Store rules Five big things Microsoft got right Internet worm exploits Windows vulnerability Thanksgiving parade gets a live 'Rickroll' Video: A jet-pack...
                    • CNET News.com | Black Friday roundup: My favorite deals | Nov 28, 2008, 10:57am: ...it. Send e-mail Cancel Warning! You will be deleting this comment and all its replies (if applicable). Click to delete FOREVER Cancel Most Popular Google admits breaking App Store rules Five big things Microsoft got right Internet worm exploits Windows vulnerability Thanksgiving parade gets a live 'Rickroll' Video: A jet-pack...
                    • CNET News.com | Why I'm shopping on Black Friday this year | Nov 28, 2008, 12:17pm: ...it. Send e-mail Cancel Warning! You will be deleting this comment and all its replies (if applicable). Click to delete FOREVER Cancel Most Popular Google admits breaking App Store rules Five big things Microsoft got right Internet worm exploits Windows vulnerability Thanksgiving parade gets a live 'Rickroll' Video: A jet-pack...
                    • CyberNet | WrapUp: I Want Sandy Closes, Share a Printer Over the Internet, and More | Dec 1, 2008, 9:31am: ...run by the same company and recently got acquired by Twitter. It was hinted that some of the technology would be integrated into Twitter later on. Google Admits to Breaking App Store Terms After a little searching around a group of individuals managed to find out that Google had used undocumented API's in their iPhone...
                    • Webware.com | More iPhone apps you can't have: Newber and iCall | Jan 6, 2009, 3:28pm: ...Apple after a request for a comment. Click here for more Macworld Expo coverage from CNET News. Previously: Apple to Podcaster: No App Store for you Google admits breaking App Store rules Apple kills iPhone app, claiming API
                      • ]]> 14070606@http://shoutingmat.ch Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:14:14 EST Sequoia Rings the Alarm Bell: Silicon Valley Is in Trouble | GigaOM http://tech.shoutingmat.ch/comments/11965216.html Oct 09, 2008, 12:16am: "Sequoia Capital, arguably the smartest venture capital investor in business, is sounding the alarm and asking its portfolio companies to buckle down for what could be the worst economic downturn of their relatively short lives. "

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                      • VentureBeat | Sequoia has emergency meeting, tells startups to try to survive downturn | Oct 8, 2008, 8:30pm: Leading Silicon Valley venture firm Sequoia held an emergency meeting yesterday to tell its portfolio companies to get ready for the worst, GigaOm is reporting and which we've confirmed from multiple sources. To drive the point home, startups were greeted at the gathering with a grave stone that said...
                      • Rex Blog | At least Sequoia's portfolio startups won't be listed on F'd Company | Oct 8, 2008, 9:25pm: I just read Om Malik's report that the VC firm Sequoia Capital organized a meeting for its portfolio companies in which they were greeted with an image of a Grave Stone with the message: RIP: Good Times....
                      • HipMojo.com | What Were Sequoia and Conway Saying During Boom Times? | Oct 8, 2008, 10:02pm: Ron Conway - the gold medal standard of angel investing - and Sequoia - the gold medal standard of VC investing - are announcing impending doom, in essence. To summarize, their advice can be summed up as: "Times...
                      • Webware.com | Angel investor Ron Conway to portfolio: Cut expenses now | Oct 8, 2008, 11:08pm: ...many new funding sources for our portfolio companies that are in funding cycle. See also: CNET's roundup coverage: Tough times for tech Gigaom: Sequoia rings the alarm bell: Silicon Valley is in trouble
                      • CNET News.com | Angel investor Ron Conway to portfolio: Cut expenses now | Oct 8, 2008, 11:08pm: ...many new funding sources for our portfolio companies that are in funding cycle. See also: CNET's roundup coverage: Tough times for tech Gigaom: Sequoia rings the alarm bell: Silicon Valley is in trouble Rafe Needleman writes about start-ups, new technologies, and Web 2.0 products, as editor of CNET's Webware. E-mail Rafe. Topics:...
                      • Valley Wag | Sequoia calls off the boom [Meltdowns] | Oct 9, 2008, 12:00am: ...They sent a summons to a summit meeting with a picture of a gravestone with the writing "R.I.P. Good Times," rival venture capitalist Om Malik reports. There, partners including Michael Moritz and Doug Leone told CEOs of companies in their portfolio that they should steel themselves for a...
                      • Between the Lines | Times are officially tough: Sequoia says so | Oct 9, 2008, 12:03am: ...emails a bunch of portfolio companies and tells them to hunker down. And now everyone notices that things may not be so peachy in Web 2.0-ville. GigaOm has the details and notes that the Valley is in for rough times. My question: What took Sequoia so long? Here on the other coast we have AIG exploding, the...
                      • Infectious Greed | VCs Now Ringing Alarm Bell: Silicon Valley Downturn | Oct 9, 2008, 12:16am: ...economic downturn. It suggested ways to cut costs, and told them to prepare themselves now. Apparently denial is officially over in the Valley. More here.
                      • Howard Lindzon | Too 'SMALL' To Fail!!! | Oct 9, 2008, 1:50am: ...Otherwise smart people, who on the surface think they are calm, freak everyone out with their own passive aggressive panic. If you don't believe me, Sequoia and Uber angel investing guru Ron Conway are just now writing letters to all their CEO's and giving them advice on how to survive . I mean today? No offense, but get over yourselves. If you have a good business, these letters are ridiculous in the timing. Maybe force them...
                      • Profy.Com | Sequoia Calls Portfolio Companies to Healthier Business Operations | Oct 9, 2008, 2:57am: ...as having strong implications for the entire industry. So it is no wonder that the players in the industry are more than worried today now that Om Malik reports that Sequoia held a meeting for founders of its portfolio companies to talk about the economic crisis to them. The CEOs and founders were met...
                      • Alexander van Elsa | The loss of control separates the men from the boys | Oct 9, 2008, 3:28am: I have been following the stream of news and blog posts on the current financial crisis. Om Malik has just written a good one here. I wasn't sure if I should be writing about it since I am not a financial expert (I spend and save money on a futile scale ). Like everyone I...
                      • Boomtown | Irony Alert: Bubble-Making Venture Capitalists Start Popping Them | Oct 9, 2008, 4:47am: ...not having much revenue quite yet–are turning into penny-pinching accountant types. As reported by Om Malik of GigaOm in a piece titled "Sequoia Rings the Alarm Bell: Silicon Valley Is in Trouble," for example, Sequoia Capital–one of tech's most powerful and successful VC firms–held a meeting where it told its portfolio...
                      • A VC | Capital Efficiency Finds It's Moment | Oct 9, 2008, 6:12am: ...reduction in capital requirements to figure out how to survive and thrive in the coming downturn? Om Malik reported yesterday on his blog that Sequoia brought it's portfolio together this week and gave them a talk about cutting costs and preparing for a downturn. Ron Conway sent an email to his portfolio suggesting to them that they cut expenses so that they can survive another three months. I've...
                      • Alec Saunders .LOG | VC Crisis? What VC Crisis? | Oct 9, 2008, 9:19am: ...that the LP's are committed, and the real impact is going to be on exits. This morning's Internet news, however, brings these three stories: Sequoia Rings the Alarm Bell: Silicon Valley is in Trouble (via GigaOm). Angel Investor Ron Conway Emails His Portfolio Companies Over Financial Meltdown (via TechCrunch). What Will the Crisis Mean...
                      • Zoli's Blog | No, the Sky is Not Falling in Startup-land | Oct 9, 2008, 9:26am: Lot's of noise today, RIP Good Times,  IT'S OVER! POP GOES THE BUBBLE, Sorry, Startups: Party's Over etc.   I think the panic is overdone. Sure, a lot of startups will fall...
                      • broadstuff | Official - the End of the FreeConomic 2.0 model | Oct 9, 2008, 9:26am: Sequoia Capital has called the end of the Good Times in bubbleventuring, as GigaOm notes: The fund organized a meeting yesterday where it invited entreprenuers/CEOs from its portfolio companies....
                      • TechWag | The parties over for some but not for all | Oct 9, 2008, 10:23am: ...at a protracted and company killing slowdown in just about every economic sector worldwide right now. From the Inquisitr to CNet, Paul Kedrosky and GigaOM everyone is saying the party is over. For many of the smaller companies that are not in a solid business, or are relying on revenues that...
                      • mathewingram.com/work | Sequoia etc. close barn door after horse | Oct 9, 2008, 10:41am: It's nice that the smart folks at Sequoia Capital are ringing the "good times are over" bell for their portfolio companies, as my friend Om Malik is reporting on his blog (other venture capitalists are sounding a similar warning, says Mike Arrington). My only question would be: Why the hell did they wait until...
                      • Bits - New York Times | Quick Bits: The Dawn of a New Depression? | Oct 9, 2008, 11:15am: ...what conclusions you draw from the entrails of the news. And let us know whether you find this format useful. Venture Capitalists Say Get Small Fast Sequoia Rings the Alarm Bell: Silicon Valley Is in Trouble [Giga Om] Godfather Tells Start-Ups to Fire People and Raise Cash [Bits] Don't say venture capitalists learned nothing from the Internet's...
                      • Online Dating Insider | Dating Startup Funding and Marketing Tactics | Oct 9, 2008, 11:38am: ...few times I get to see him. Last night's group consisted of a lot of financial types, and the mood was grim, but educational. This morning I read Sequoia Rings the Alarm Bell: Silicon Valley Is in Trouble. It's clear that raising money is going to become more difficult. I have a client who raised a large round of funds recently, and another who...
                      • Epicenter -Wired | VCs Instill Fear in Silicon Valley | Oct 9, 2008, 11:59am: ...explaining ways companies could cut costs, where entrepreneurs and CEOs were greeted with an image reading "R.I.P: Good Times," reports GigaOM. And angel investor Ron Conway emailed a warning to his portfolio companies explaining that raising capital will now be much more difficult,...
                      • p2pnet | p2pnet news roundup #5: October 9, 2008 | Oct 9, 2008, 12:00pm: ...provider didn't intend on extending the channel to offer Twitter support in an official capacity, according to a company representative. »»» Sequoia Rings the Alarm Bell: Silicon Valley Is in Trouble - GigaOm Sequoia Capital, arguably the smartest venture capital investor in business, is sounding the alarm and asking its portfolio...
                      • Seeking Alpha - Internet stocks | Darwinian Capitalism Finds Its Moment | Oct 9, 2008, 12:00pm: ...in capital requirements to figure out how to survive and thrive in the coming downturn?Om Malik reported yesterday on his blog that Sequoia brought its portfolio together this week and gave them a talk about cutting costs and preparing for a downturn. Ron Conway sent an email to his portfolio suggesting to them that they...
                      • Joe Duck | Sequoia to Silicon Valley: Red Ink coming soon to a startup near you. | Oct 9, 2008, 12:35pm: ...the meltdown a large majority of startups failed anyway.    Now we are facing the worst economic conditions in decades, so … look out. Om Malik reports
                      • Web Worker Daily | Open Thread: How's Your Personal Tech Spending? | Oct 9, 2008, 2:00pm: As the larger economic picture continues to look dismal, the reverberations are being felt within the tech sector. As our parent blog GigaOM reports, the venture capital firms are starting to get antsy about whether Silicon Valley can continue business as usual. Apple and other tech stocks...
                      • GigaOM | Inside Details of Sequoia Capital's Doomsday Meeting With its Companies | Oct 9, 2008, 2:27pm: Last night I reported on a special meeting held by Sequoia Capital for its portfolio companies, warning them about the fiscal hurricane that was going to hit them,...
                      • Good Morning Silicon Valley | Of course, if there's no enlightenment, a Zen slap just hurts | Oct 9, 2008, 3:44pm: ...where tech companies working under the illusion that they were above the the economic storm are getting a humbling reminder that they're not. Some venture capitalists and angel investors, moved by crisis, are making news by urging their companies to retreat into the sound, common-sense, thrifty practices...
                      • Silicon Valley Watcher | VCs to Startups: Cut Your Burn Rate by 25 % Now! | Oct 9, 2008, 4:46pm: ...Mr Brockway said Tripit is well financed and doesn't need to raise money. "We raised $6m and we still have most of it in the bank." Om Malik at GigaOm yesterday reported that Sequoia, one of Silicon Valley's leading VC firm, held a meeting Tuesday with its portfolio companies. . . . The...
                      • Venture Beat | Don't stop believing " Silicon Valley lip-synchs while market burns | Oct 9, 2008, 5:01pm: ...Heck, the Saturday after AIG and Lehman Brothers collapsed, I got on a plane to Martha's Vineyard. And I don't agree with bloggers who say Silicon Valley has been living on a bubble, thinking it won't be affected by the crash. But posting videos of your fun Cyprus vacation — on a public site, even if it wasn't meant...
                      • Bits - New York Times | Internet Companies Hammered by Economic Concerns | Oct 9, 2008, 5:18pm: ...saying that the financial crisis and downturn in the economy are going to affect just about everyone in the sector. It is the latest sign that the downturn is going to temper the mood in always-upbeat Silicon Valley. On Thursday, for example, a UBS analyst, Benjamin Schachter, lowered...
                      • Business Week | Venture Firms Recoil from Crisis, But Not for Long - BusinessWeek | Oct 9, 2008, 8:01pm: ...themselves first amid the crisis. But, better prepared this time, they'll seek opportunities before long by Stacey Higginbotham Related Items GigaOM Network: Sequoia Rings the Alarm Bell: Silicon Valley Is in Trouble GigaOM Network: Sprint's Network is Only Half Open GigaOM Network: Watch the Economic Meltdown Online GigaOM Network: 9 Sexiest Electric Cars...
                      • GigaOM | Venture Firms Pull Back, But Not for Long | Oct 10, 2008, 12:01am: Venture firms are sounding the alarm over what this current downturn might mean for their portfolio companies — and it's not pretty.  While it's true that great companies...
                      • Tech Crunch | Benchmark Capital Advises Startups To Conserve Capital, Look For Opportunities | Oct 10, 2008, 1:01am: Yesterday Sequoia Capital and Ron Conway communicated with their portfolio companies to guide them through troubled times. Today Benchmark Capital joins the fray, with...
                      • mocoNews.net | Tech Startups Told To Cut Back Spending; Analysts Say Downturn Will Hit Wireless Industry | Oct 10, 2008, 1:51am: ...surface on how technology, and specifically wireless will be affected, but actions are starting to be taken. In one of the most alarming examples, GigaOm reports today, that Sequoia Capital, is telling its portfolio companies to buckle down, and illustrated the point by displaying an image of a grave stone...
                      • CNET News.com | Tech's next step: More M&A? | Oct 10, 2008, 3:33pm: ...now, you may have read or heard about the "R.I.P. Good Times" presentation Sequoia Capital gave earlier this week on behalf of its client companies. Om Malik, who was first to report the news, offered this grim assessment: Folks this is bad news for Silicon Valley, which has been living in a bubble,...
                      • Bits - New York Times | 'R.I.P. Good Times,' Sequoia Capital Warns | Oct 10, 2008, 3:55pm: October 10, 2008, 3:55 pm ‘R.I.P. Good Times,' Sequoia Capital Warns By Claire Cain Miller Silicon Valley has been abuzz over an emergency meeting that Sequoia Capital called for its portfolio companies on Tuesday. VentureBeat now has the slide show presented at that meeting, thanks to a kind tipster. Sequoia, one...
                      • Tech Trader Daily | Sequoia Capital Warns: The Dark Ages Are Here | Oct 10, 2008, 4:06pm: ...about a seriously gloomy take on the current outlook for venture-backed start-ups that Sequoia Capital gave to its portfolio companies this week. GigaOm's Om Malik had a nice take on the story yesterday ; VentureBeat has posted the PowerPoint slides from the Sequoia presentation, and I've re-posted them below. It's sobering stuff, but in...
                      • GigaOM | At London Webfest, Startups Still in Denial | Oct 12, 2008, 3:00pm: A deluge of European startups descended on London's ExCel Centre for the Future of Web Apps 2008 conference this week, and while the economic crisis has already reached Europe, the fear clearly hasn't reached its startup community. Mark Rochefort of London-based digital marketing agency...
                      • Business Week | Foundation Capital Warns Its Startups - BusinessWeek | Oct 12, 2008, 6:44pm: ...8 report that Sequoia Capital, one of the Silicon Valley's most successful firms, held a meeting the previous day to tell its portfolio companies to "get real or go home." The same day, The New York Times Bits blog ran a letter from Ron Conway, Silicon Valley's most prominent angel investor, advising his...
                      • Business Week | Foundation Capital Warns Its Startups - BusinessWeek | Oct 12, 2008, 7:24pm: ...8 report that Sequoia Capital, one of the Silicon Valley's most successful firms, held a meeting the previous day to tell its portfolio companies to "get real or go home." The same day, The New York Times Bits blog ran a letter from Ron Conway, Silicon Valley's most prominent angel investor, advising his...
                      • Business Week | Dude, Where's My Ad? - BusinessWeek | Oct 13, 2008, 12:01am: ...only added to the overall gloom. And when one of its own— Sequoia Capital, among the smartest and most rational investors in the world— told its portfolio companies to cinch their belts tighter than ever, all hell broke loose. Those of us in the Valley are now reassessing our bullishness and trying to...
                      • GigaOM | Dude, Where's My Ad? | Oct 13, 2008, 12:01am: ...added to the overall gloom. And when one of its own — Sequoia Capital, among the smartest and most rational investors in the world — told its portfolio companies to cinch their belts tighter than ever, all hell broke loose. Those of us in the Valley are now reassessing our bullishness and trying to...
                      • Seeking Alpha - Gadgets stocks | Performing Valuation in Times of Turmoil | Oct 13, 2008, 6:21am: ...The Dow closed at 8,451 on Friday – over 40% below the 52-week high of 14,279 and down 18% for last week alone. There are a lot of very smart people concerned that the markets and broader global economy are headed for a long-term slump. Within this turmoil there is a lot of discussion...
                      • Epicenter -Wired | AdBrite Lays Off 40 Percent Of Staff | Oct 16, 2008, 4:08pm: ...AdBrite is the second Sequoia-backed startup to post significant layoffs after warnings from the VC firm that the CEOs of their portfolio companies should trim costs in a meeting entitled "R.I.P.: Good Times." While getting rid of almost half staff isn't ever fun, the watershed will now be cash flow positive and profitable, according to CEO Iggy...
                      • GigaOM | AdMob Raises $15.7M in Series C Funding | Oct 21, 2008, 10:27pm: ...are laying off staff or shutting down altogether. The investment in AdMob is all the more notable for one of its sources: Sequoia, which recently sounded an alarm bell to its portfolio companies about the tough times ahead. Sequoia and Accel are encouraging AdMob to grow aggressively, according to V-P of...
                      • Business Week | Facing Downturn, Venture Capital Prunes Prospects | Oct 24, 2008, 12:01am: ...for at least a few quarters. This means consumers aren't buying, and corporations are putting spending on hold. As such, venture firms have been sowing panic among their portfolio companies, telling them to cut early and cut often. The resulting layoffs (BusinessWeek.com, 10/20/08) are already...
                      • GigaOM | To Prep for Downturn, VCs Turn to Triage | Oct 24, 2008, 12:01am: ...a few quarters at least. This means that consumers aren't buying, and corporations are putting spending on hold. As such, venture firms have been sowing panic among their portfolio companies, telling them to cut early and cut often. The resulting layoffs are already filtering through the startup ecosystem. Layoffs are one thing,...
                      • GigaOM | 10 Tips for Building Revenue in the Ad Recession | Oct 26, 2008, 12:00pm: ...who was formerly with Fox Sports Interactive. Although our meeting had been planned several months ago, the fact that it came on the heels of some highly publicized admonishments by certain VCs to the CEOs of their portfolio companies to slash costs in order to survive the financial crisis provided an interesting backdrop. In...
                      • Silicon Valley Watcher | Sequoia BS . . . and the Stepford Wives of Sand Hill Road | Oct 30, 2008, 2:32am: ...time market swings you are better off building a company in down economic cycles because you know there is going to be an upside. That's why the Sequoia RIP presentation is puzzling. Why are these VC veterans reacting to what has been happening now rather than positioning for what's coming next?...
                      • GigaOM | The Very Human Cost of Job Cuts | Nov 15, 2008, 9:34pm: The global economic downturn has started to take its toll on Silicon Valley, especially since the news of an emergency meeting Sequoia Capital held for its entrepreneurs, asking them to buckle up for the nausea-inducing ride that lay ahead of them. In the weeks that have gone by since, we have seen waves of...
                      • GigaOM | 4 Steps to Making Strategic Decisions in Today's Market | Nov 16, 2008, 12:00pm: ...risks in every business have changed. None of us will go through the next 18 months without significant impact. But many entrepreneurs who saw the now-famous "Sequoia deck" unfortunately took its conclusions to be a tenet of truth and acted on it — perhaps too hastily. The folks at Sequoia are smart, but...
                      • Profy.Com | My Favorite Articles and Blog Posts from 2008. Which Are Yours? | Dec 22, 2008, 2:07pm: ...of incredible things to turn into reality. Good that Tim O'Reilly decided to focus on this issue, bad it was probably too late already by the time. Sequoia Rings the Alarm Bell: Silicon Valley Is in Trouble, Om Malik, GigaOM In this post Om Malik shared the news about a meeting of Sequoia Capital VC fund with its portfolio companies where the entrepreneurs were...
                      • GigaOM | The Sequoia Layoff Scorecard | Dec 30, 2008, 8:00pm: Back in October, when I broke the news that uber venture fund Sequoia Capital had organized a secret meeting in which it warned its portfolio companies to prepare for the pending...
                        • ]]> 11965216@http://shoutingmat.ch Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:16:03 EDT Meet Rael Dornfest | Twitter Blog http://tech.shoutingmat.ch/comments/13990488.html Nov 24, 2008, 8:11pm: "Rael Dornfest is a famously talented engineer, author, and entrepreneur. Before founding Values of n, Rael served as Chief Technology Officer at O'Reilly Media and is known for his pioneering work on RSS as well being the series editor of O'Reilly's celebrated Hacks books. I met him personally a number of years ago and have always thought he was one of the smartest guys I know."

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                        • Venture Beat | Twitter buys a company, closes it, keeps its founder/engineer | Nov 24, 2008, 8:11pm: ...by Facebook, has turned around and made a purchase itself: A personal productivity and information management solutions company called Values of n, Twitter reports on its blog. Of course, Twitter doesn't actually plan to do anything with Values of n, and will be shuttering it immediately. Instead, Twitter was after...
                        • /Message | Twitter Acquires Rael Dornfest | Nov 24, 2008, 8:16pm: I am glad I didn't continue in my attempts to make Rael Dornfest's Stikkit personal organizer work, because he's joining Twitter, and Ev Williams and company are retiring Stikkit and Ask Sandy, an email tool, that Rael's Values of N company had developed. Rael has a...
                        • Silicon Alley Insider | Twitter Acq-Hires Former O'Reilly CTO Dornfest | Nov 24, 2008, 10:11pm: ...has brought on another Web tech guru -- former O'Reilly CTO Rael Dornfest -- via an acquisition of his tiny startup. Twitter CEO Evan Williams writes: Today we're thrilled to announce that Twitter has acquired the assets of Values of n, which include an intelligent sticky-note application...
                        • CNET News.com | So long, Sandy: Dornfest heading to Twitter | Nov 24, 2008, 10:57pm: ...virtual sticky note service called Stikkit. Both products will shut down at 5 p.m. PST on December 8, according the Values of n blog. However, the Twitter blog says, "The technology...will live on and potentially re-emerge as part of Twitter's systems." It'd be pretty cool if the auto-concierge of I...
                        • mocoNews.net | Twitter Buys Start-up's Assets; Hires Founder Rael Dornfest | Nov 24, 2008, 11:38pm: ...the technology into its services. Values of n's founder Rael Dornfest has joined the team as a full-time Twitter engineer. The announcement was made on Twitter's blog today, which said Dornfest is "a famously talented engineer, author, and entrepreneur," who served as CTO at O'Reilly Media prior to founding...
                        • Web Pro News | Twitter's New Values | Nov 25, 2008, 9:13am: Twitter has acquired  " Values of n," a company founded by Rael Dornfest, former CTO of O'Reilly Media. Dornfest is known for being a...
                        • GigaOM | Will Twitter Become Your Personal Assistant? | Nov 25, 2008, 12:51pm: ...out with more details in the new year, which has only increased the frenzy of speculation. That frenzy got another boost on Monday, when Twitter announced that it had acquired Values of n, a company founded by well-known programmer Rael Dornfest, the former chief technology officer at O'Reilly Media and one of the...
                        • Web Worker Daily | I Want Sandy and Stikkit to Close on December 8 | Nov 26, 2008, 5:16am: ...will go offline for good on December 8. This isn't your typical "startup ran out of money" story. Rael Dornfest, the brains behind Values of n, accepted a fulltime job with Twitter. Rather than pass the web apps on to someone else or keep them going under Twitter's roof, the services will just go away, leaving their user...
                        • FactoryCity | Bookmarks for November 10 to November 24 | Nov 30, 2008, 3:02am: ...transparency, via:mento.info keyboardr Wow, this is a FAST search engine! Tags: search, tools, searchengine, keyboard, useful, tool, via:mento.info Twitter Blog: Meet Rael Dornfest Rael joins Twitter, shuttering I Want Sandy and Stikkit. Interesting things should come of this, and no doubt already have. Tags: twitter,...
                          • ]]> 13990488@http://shoutingmat.ch Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:11:39 EST As Carl Icahn Buys More Yahoo Shares, Is It the Sign That a CEO Choice Is near? | All Things Digital http://tech.shoutingmat.ch/comments/14162280.html Nov 28, 2008, 1:31pm: "When everyone else has been selling, it seems Carl Icahn has decided to throw good money after bad–as in nearly $1 billion bad–by buying almost seven million more Yahoo shares, according to a regulatory filing."

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                          • Silicon Alley Insider | Yahoo Now Looking At CEOs With No Internet Or Ad Experience | Nov 28, 2008, 9:54am: ...objective operator, but selling media and ads is different than selling gadgets, and we're skeptical that these new folks have the right experience. Kara Swisher: [M]y guess is that the choice of a new CEO is likely to be sooner than later and much more Icahn-friendly. That could point more clearly to...
                          • GigaOM | Is Yahoo Stock a Bargain? | Nov 28, 2008, 11:47am: ...awe-inspiring. His investments in Motorola, another company he lobbied to restructure, have taken a heavy pounding as well. Kara Swisher thinks that this recent Yahoo stock purchase is a sign that Yahoo is about to make a CEO choice "sooner than later and much more Icahn-friendly." What do you guys think: Is Yahoo a...
                          • Valley Wag | Icahn buys more Yahoo shares, considers H-P exec for CEO gig [Yahoo] | Nov 28, 2008, 12:35pm: Jerry Yang's least favorite investor bought nearly seven million more shares of YHOO. BoomTown reporter Kara Swisher did my homework for me again: Todd Bradley, head of H-P's $28 billion Personal Systems group, has been added to the list of potential Yahoo CEOs. Just to keep things complicated, the...
                          • Between the Lines | Icahn averages down on Yahoo; Searches for break even | Nov 28, 2008, 1:31pm: BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet all ZDNet in Blogs in News in Downloads in Reviews in Whitepapers in Dictionary Go! Members Log...
                          • Tech Crunch | Icahn Picks Up More Yahoo Shares On The Cheap | Nov 28, 2008, 2:46pm: ...leadership. Why not buy now before the news when the stock is hitting rock bottom? He is obviously in the stock for the long haul now. I wouldn't read too much into this move other than that Icahn is in too deep with Yahoo to bail out now. If you are committed to a stock, you buy it when it's cheap....
                          • Paid Content | Update: Microsoft, Yahoo Said To Be Hammering Out $20 Billion Search Buyout | Nov 30, 2008, 12:00am: ...investor Carl Icahn has helped lift Yahoo's stock prices in the past week, increasing his stake in the company by about 7 million shares, and BoomTown's Kara Swisher suggested it was a sign that Yahoo's board was close to naming a new CEO. But perhaps the promise of this new search deal"if it's really...
                          • Boomtown | "Total Fiction": There Is No $20 Billion Microsoft Deal to Buy Yahoo Search (Not Yet, at Least!) | Nov 30, 2008, 12:40am: ...and Microsoft, which seems more than likely at some point. It makes sense on many levels and is supported by Carl Icahn, the Yahoo board member who upped his money-losing stake in the company last week. That stock purchase should be enough of a reason for there to be no Microsoft-Yahoo search deal imminent, given Icahn would be more than...
                          • Seeking Alpha - Internet stocks | Why Is Icahn Loading Up on Yahoo? | Dec 1, 2008, 5:06am: ...took as a forward-looking omen, helped elevate Yahoo’s stock price. Trying to look behind Icahn’s decision making, some are speculating his timing may indicate a new CEO announcement is on its way sooner than later. Others have posited different theories. Assuredly, one certainty is he’s not...
                          • Boomtown | The Yahoo Rumor Mill–The Broken Clock Will Be Right at Some Time | Dec 1, 2008, 6:25pm: ...rushed to deny it. There were also serious insider trading issues for a major investor and board member, Carl Icahn, if it were true. He just loaded up on Yahoo shares a week ago. And, oh yes, one of the co-CEOs-in-waiting, Levinsohn, told me he was not contacted by the Times (and neither was Miller, as far as he could...
                            • ]]> 14162280@http://shoutingmat.ch Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:31:57 EST P&G Digital Guru Not Sure Marketers Belong on Facebook | Advertising Age http://tech.shoutingmat.ch/comments/13691994.html Nov 17, 2008, 2:27pm: "Social networks may never find the ad dollars they're hunting for because they don't really have a right to them, said Ted McConnell, general manager-interactive marketing and innovation at Procter & Gamble Co., at a Nov. 15 forum on digital media."

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                            • Clickz | Quote of the Day: P&G's Ted McConnell on Facebook | Nov 17, 2008, 3:41pm: ...-Ted McConnell, general manager-interactive marketing and innovation at Procter & Gamble Co., expressing doubts that marketers belong on Facebook. ( AdAge)
                            • Silicon Alley Insider | P&G Ad Man: "I Don't Want To Buy Any More Banners On Facebook." | Nov 17, 2008, 5:15pm: ...business, it needs some of that money. Too bad then, that Procter & Gamble's GM for interactive marketing and innovation, Ted McConnell," just told a conference: "I really don't want to buy any more banner ads on Facebook." "I have a reaction to [Facebook] as a consumer advocate and an advertiser:...
                            • HipMojo | Social Media: Say Goodbye to Those Wheels | Nov 17, 2008, 5:39pm: Finally some marketers are developing the courage to say what should be obvious to everyone. One of our main items in our predictions for 2009 is the fact that the vast majority of social media startups will shut down.  Hearing a...
                            • MarketingVOX | Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/18/08 | Nov 18, 2008, 8:45am: ...Gamble's GM-interactive marketing and innovation Ted McConnell doesn't think advertisers should butt in on social media "conversations." Still, applications hold promise, he said. Citi internet analyst Mark Mahaney says display advertising is declining faster than previous forecasts claimed. Harvard Law...
                            • Wikinomics | Advertising through consumer-generated media - is it a futile attempt to hijack conversations? | Nov 18, 2008, 11:03am: ...and user-generated content, and what they are saying points towards some interesting questions. For example, today Dan Herman forwarded me this AdAge story where Ted McConnell, GM of interactive marketing and innovation at P&G, speaks out against it. Very early on he offers up an interesting...
                            • Paid Content | Ad Industry Roundup: Glam's Apps; Generation Benz; TNS; Dandelion; P&G Vs. Facebook; McCain's Spend | Nov 18, 2008, 6:19pm: ...the pedigree of both Kirt Gunn and Epoch (which has been producing spots for P&G, Nike and Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ), among others, since 1989).  -- Maybe Facebook isn't a place for ads : So said Ted McConnell, GM of interactive marketing and innovation at P&G during a digital media forum last week. "I really don't want to...
                            • Financial Tech Blog | Sex, Cocoa Puffs and the Cincinnati search | Nov 18, 2008, 7:29pm: ...marketing and innovation questions Facebook's merits for marketers, it is hard to dismiss as Luddite carping, writes Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson. In a speech to a digital media conference in P&G's home town of Cincinnati, McConnell said it was "predatory" and "arrogant" to "hijack"...
                            • Mashable | Just What is Social Media, Exactly? | Nov 18, 2008, 11:28pm: ...near and around relevant content.  Social media are platforms for interaction and relationships, not content and ads." Jeffrey cites something by AdAge that quotes Ted McConnell from Procter & Gamble Co marketing: "I think when we call it 'consumer-generated media,' we're being...
                            • Web Strategy | Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Nov 19, 2008 | Nov 19, 2008, 7:39am: ...this is a good move for Yahoo. Viewpoint: P&G asks Should brands be in Facebook? One of Proctor and Gambles top digital marketers questions should brands be in Facebook, or is it too invasive? There are thousands of brands already in Facebook, and most are doing it wrong. Funding: Social Network Multiply...
                            • Epicenter -Wired | Facebook Ads Not Dead Yet | Nov 19, 2008, 1:11pm: ...with Facebook's inventory. And on Saturday, Ted McConnell, general manager-interactive marketing and innovation at Procter & Gamble Co, said he wants nothing to do with Facebook: "What in heaven's name made you think you could monetize the real estate in which somebody is breaking up with their girlfriend?"...
                            • Searchviews | Social Media: Is Social Media Marketing a Predatory Pursuit? | Nov 19, 2008, 5:22pm: The quote du jour today was from Ted McConnell, General Manager of Interactive Marketing at Proctor and Gamble, who said this about Facebook in AdAge: "I think when we call it 'consumer-generated media,' we're being predatory...Who said this is media? Media is something you can buy...
                            • Epicenter -Wired | Is Social Advertising an Oxymoron? | Dec 2, 2008, 2:26pm: ...networking sites, fewer than 60 percent did so. Ted McConnell, head of interactive marketing and innovation at Procter & Gamble, isn't surprised. Speaking at a digital marketing conference in Cincinnati, P&G's hometown, McConnell asked, "What in heaven's name made you think you could monetize the real estate in which...
                              • ]]> 13691994@http://shoutingmat.ch Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:27:00 EST