It’s time to party and think of all the insanely fun gay weddings you’re going to be able to attend if you happen to be lucky enough to live on the west coast. Proposition 8 has been overturned by a federals appeal panel in San Francisco as unconstitutional. People will no longer be able to point to the law or try to make laws the point to ones dictate what defines a loving and consensual relationship. There will be no more buzzwords like the sanctity of marriage tossed around, there’ll be no more conservatives wasting time on amendments that will define the world in a narrow scope,…
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Prop 8 Overturned, Nation Rejoices
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Remember Netvibes? It’s Finally Acquired By Engineering Giant Dassault Systèmes
TechCrunch8 Feb 2012 | 11:48 pmIt’s been a long and winding road since Tariq Krim created and eventually left Netvibes, but today Netvibes has been acquired by huge French engineering giant Dassault Systèmes for an undisclosed amount. Krim continues to pursue his original dream of organising the social web on Jolicloud. -
Protests against iPhone factory conditions planned Thursday for Apple Stores (Erica Ogg/GigaOM)
Techmeme8 Feb 2012 | 10:55 pmErica Ogg / GigaOM: Protests against iPhone factory conditions planned Thursday for Apple Stores — Still unhappy with Apple's response to the New York Times' series on labor conditions in Chinese factories that make iPhones and iPads, two organizations are planning a globally coordinated protest on Thursday. -
Raising Money: What Not to Say and What Not to Believe #OfficeandGuyK
How to Change the World20 Jan 2012 | 10:46 amOver the past two weeks via my partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps, I’ve provided templates of models for you to create enchanting PowerPoint pitches, Word business plans, and Excel financial models. They are all available for you to download from my SkyDrive account. I hope these documents and blog posts help you save a boatload of time and increase the quality of your efforts.I leave you with two sets of top ten lies: one of entrepreneurs and one of investors so that you know what not to say and what not to believe. Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs “Our projections are… -
It’s time to stop PROTECT IP
Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO18 Jan 2012 | 4:47 amA couple months ago, I wrote this about SOPA: SOPA galvanized the tech community, from start-ups to venture capitalists to the largest web companies. SOPA was an unexpected shock and a wake-up call. Well, guess what? Now the internet is awake. And I don’t think it’s going back to sleep any time soon. We might need to rally again in the near future, but we can do that. The internet learns fast.Now it’s time to rally and get loud. It’s time to call your Senators. Heck, it’s time to ask your parents to call their Senators. If you think the internet is something different, something…
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manolith.com
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Prop 8 Overturned, Nation Rejoices
8 Feb 2012 | 6:37 pmIt’s time to party and think of all the insanely fun gay weddings you’re going to be able to attend if you happen to be lucky enough to live on the west coast. Proposition 8 has been overturned by a federals appeal panel in San Francisco as unconstitutional. People will no longer be able to point to the law or try to make laws the point to ones dictate what defines a loving and consensual relationship. There will be no more buzzwords like the sanctity of marriage tossed around, there’ll be no more conservatives wasting time on amendments that will define the world in a narrow scope,… -
Chauncey Billups Tears Achilles Tendon, Out For The Season
8 Feb 2012 | 6:30 pmRight when the LA Clippers start steamrolling opponents, including their cross-town or same-town rivals, a string of bad luck threatens to derail all their early promise. Their bad luck specifically came to a head when the almost Britishly named Chauncey Billups tore his Achilles tendon, grinding the season to a halt that had a lot of NBA analysts turning their heads and going, ‘GOOD LORD,’ the season where the Clippers transformed themselves into an ongoing joke and from the place people played when they wanted to stay in LA but weren’t good enough for the Lakers. Most impressively,… -
Low Risk Passengers Will Soon Enjoy Faster TSA Screening
8 Feb 2012 | 11:18 amIn a move dictated by common sense, a new screening program is being offered to 28 airports–this screening process allows low-risk passengers to pass through security in a much easier fashion. While not everyone will be eligible for a “low risk” title, many can score it by offering a little more personal information to the ticket issuing process. Basically, you offer a little personal information, the powers that be look into your background and if you’re a good little boy or girl, you may be deemed low risk. Once you score low risk status, you will receive a special… -
Clint Eastwood Tells America To Sack Up In Chrysler Ad
8 Feb 2012 | 12:18 amThough some Super Bowl ads play off of sexuality, tiny babies, and dogs, there are some that stir the public in a way that gets everyone talking. Unsurprisingly the one that America’s talking about features an icon of our film industry – Clint Eastwood, talking about second acts in America. Chrysler has been making a comeback that the government has been hoping for, displacing Toyota as the world’s largest automaker. Outside there’s a climate of toxicity, in our politics, beliefs, and the fact that we’re at the worst point in our nation’s history – in danger of being usurped by… -
Man’s Body Discovered Four Years After Death
7 Feb 2012 | 11:05 pmIt is believed that David Carter died in late 2007, and his body was finally discovered on January 23, 2012. Ruled a suicide by investigators, Carter’s skeletal remains were found late last month with a gunshot wound to the head, and a Smith and Wesson 9mm hand gun resting on his chest. He was found at the top of the second floor landing. Let the questions flow forth. Where were his friends? Where were his family members? What led to the discovery of his body? With the answers to such questions, the story just becomes increasingly sad. It paints our socialscape as completely…
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TechCrunch
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Remember Netvibes? It’s Finally Acquired By Engineering Giant Dassault Systèmes
8 Feb 2012 | 11:48 pmIt’s been a long and winding road since Tariq Krim created and eventually left Netvibes, but today Netvibes has been acquired by huge French engineering giant Dassault Systèmes for an undisclosed amount. Krim continues to pursue his original dream of organising the social web on Jolicloud. -
Analytics Dashboard Netvibes Sold To Dassault Systèmes
8 Feb 2012 | 11:06 pmNetvibes has just been acquired by European product design company Dassault Systèmes (sure this isn’t the type of thing I usually write, but I like the founder Tariq Krim so bear with me here … ). French startup Netvibes is a sentiment analytics dashboard that allows Fortune 500 companies to track their social media presence throughout the realtime web. Dassault is a “3D experience” design company — which lets designers virtualize how products will work in the real world — so the acquisition actually seems jarring at first, but Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini… -
Hipster CEO Also Apologizes For Address Book-Gate, Calls For “Application Privacy Summit” [Guest Post]
8 Feb 2012 | 8:07 pmThe following is a guest post from Hipster CEO Doug Ludlow, following yesterday and today’s revelations that select apps were uploading users’ entire address books to their databases. We blew it, we’re sorry, and we’re going to make it right. It’s Hipster’s goal to provide a fun and beautiful service for our community to share where they are, and what they are doing – creating a safe environment for our users is of the utmost importance to us. However, when we built our “Find Friends” feature for iOS, we clearly dropped the ball when it comes to protecting our… -
Is A Hash Of Hash Of A Torrent Of A Torrent Of Copyrighted Data Copyrighted?
8 Feb 2012 | 7:23 pmLet’s try to parse this. Pirate Bay (.se) user allisfine just recently uploaded a torrent to the site that is a collection of all the magnet identifiers for the entire site (actually, only about a quarter of the site, but all the publicly visible ones). That is to say, it is a list of the unique identifiers, cryptographic hashes, of every .torrent file on the site. In a way, this torrent file, or indeed its magnet identifier (938802790a385c49307f34cca4c30f80b03df59c), contains millions or billions of dollars worth of pirated content. Or does it? It’s more a philosophical question… -
Stealthy Startup timeRAZOR Raises $3.4M Pre-Launch, Partners With Major Household Brands
8 Feb 2012 | 7:01 pmGot FOMO? (That’s “fear of missing out” for those of you who don’t do slang.) There will soon be an app for that, or so says the $3.4 million in angel funding the stealthy D.C.-area startup called timeRAZOR has raised. In its pre-launch state, the curious company is already lining up brand partnerships with big names like Marriott and L’Oreal in preparation for its March debut. But what the heck is a timeRAZOR? According to CEO and co-founder, Jeff White (formerly the founder of govWin), timeRAZOR is a mobile application that will help people discover…
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Techmeme
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Protests against iPhone factory conditions planned Thursday for Apple Stores (Erica Ogg/GigaOM)
8 Feb 2012 | 10:55 pmErica Ogg / GigaOM: Protests against iPhone factory conditions planned Thursday for Apple Stores — Still unhappy with Apple's response to the New York Times' series on labor conditions in Chinese factories that make iPhones and iPads, two organizations are planning a globally coordinated protest on Thursday. -
60 million users engaged with apps on Facebook mobile platform since launch; average 5 times per month (Brendan Irvine-Broque/Inside Facebook)
8 Feb 2012 | 10:30 pmBrendan Irvine-Broque / Inside Facebook: 60 million users engaged with apps on Facebook mobile platform since launch; average 5 times per month — Facebook Director of Product Management Carl Sjogreen revealed that over 60 million users have engaged with mobile applications via Facebook, 320 million times per month since the mobile platform launched in October 2011. -
Alibaba Seeking $3 Billion Loan to Buy Back Yahoo Stake (Deal Journal)
8 Feb 2012 | 10:05 pmDeal Journal: Alibaba Seeking $3 Billion Loan to Buy Back Yahoo Stake — Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is in the process of raising a US$3 billion loan from around six banks to buy back the stake that Yahoo Inc. owns in the company, people familiar with the situation said Thursday. -
Facebook Hits A New Record High Value Of At Least $103.4 Billion (Jackie Cohen/All Facebook)
8 Feb 2012 | 9:40 pmJackie Cohen / All Facebook: Facebook Hits A New Record High Value Of At Least $103.4 Billion — Facebook stock has blown past even the most bullish estimates to a value of $103.4 billion to $110 billion, based on today's SharesPost auction closing at $44 per share. — The $103.4 billion figure is based … -
Google Wallet PIN cracked on rooted Android devices (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)
8 Feb 2012 | 9:10 pmDieter Bohn / The Verge: Google Wallet PIN cracked on rooted Android devices — The security of the PIN that protects Google Wallet transactions has been compromised — though most users won't need to worry about the issue for now, as it only applies to users who have rooted their Android smartphone.
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How to Change the World
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Raising Money: What Not to Say and What Not to Believe #OfficeandGuyK
20 Jan 2012 | 10:46 amOver the past two weeks via my partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps, I’ve provided templates of models for you to create enchanting PowerPoint pitches, Word business plans, and Excel financial models. They are all available for you to download from my SkyDrive account. I hope these documents and blog posts help you save a boatload of time and increase the quality of your efforts.I leave you with two sets of top ten lies: one of entrepreneurs and one of investors so that you know what not to say and what not to believe. Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs “Our projections are… -
Design a Sam Adams beer
20 Jan 2012 | 8:24 amNow this is a fun project. I’m helping Sam Adams “tap” the knowledge of beer drinkers and crowd source its next brew. Join the party by getting the app and designing your beer: The final brew will be released in Austin in the first week of March. #sponsored -
How to Create an Enchanting Financial Forecast #OfficeandGuyK
17 Jan 2012 | 1:52 pmThis is the third post in my Microsoft partnership, and it’s all about numbers. The topic is crafting your financial forecast to include in your pitch. Bill Reichert, my partner at Garage Technology Ventures, created an Excel model and wrote this blog post. There’s a lesson in this too: Get the best person for the job. His grasp of financial models and how to present them exceeds mine by two orders of magnitude. The Purpose of Financial Projections When it comes to financial projections, there are two types of entrepreneurs: first, the “visionary entrepreneur” who… -
How to Create an Enchanting Business Plan #OfficeandGuyK
12 Jan 2012 | 8:16 amHere is the second post in my series about planning, pitching, and launching a new business venture. In partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps, I’ve created a Word document that outlines a good business plan. It’s saved to my SkyDrive folder here. Feel free to download it and use it as inspiration. And if you’re working with a partner, you can use the free Word Web App to stay in sync. I provided the PowerPoint document before the Word document because a good business plan is an elaboration of a good pitch as opposed to a good pitch being a distillation of good business plan. -
How to Create an Enchanting Pitch #OfficeandGuyK
9 Jan 2012 | 8:01 amWelcome to the first in a series of blog posts I’ll be doing as part of a partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps. Over the next two weeks, I’ll cover everything a budding entrepreneur needs to turn an idea into an enchanting investment opportunity—from the perfect pitch to a killer business plan to financial forecasts. I’m going to start with a little dissertation on creating effective PowerPoint pitches for your company. I embedded the sample deck for you to click through by using the PowerPoint Web App. When you’re ready to get started, you can download the…
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Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO
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It’s time to stop PROTECT IP
18 Jan 2012 | 4:47 amA couple months ago, I wrote this about SOPA: SOPA galvanized the tech community, from start-ups to venture capitalists to the largest web companies. SOPA was an unexpected shock and a wake-up call. Well, guess what? Now the internet is awake. And I don’t think it’s going back to sleep any time soon. We might need to rally again in the near future, but we can do that. The internet learns fast.Now it’s time to rally and get loud. It’s time to call your Senators. Heck, it’s time to ask your parents to call their Senators. If you think the internet is something different, something… -
Sharing a search story
11 Jan 2012 | 12:20 amI’ve been reading a lot of the coverage of the Search plus Your World launch and I wanted to share my story and then clarify something.I love to stay up until early in the morning playing Werewolf. In early December I went to a journalism conference called “News Foo Camp” in Phoenix and played a lot of Werewolf. When I got back, for some reason I searched for [werewolf] — maybe I was thinking about making a custom deck of werewolf cards. Because I was dogfood-testing Search plus Your World, this is what I saw:In the top row of pictures, you’ll see a bunch of people playing… -
Larry Lessig on the corrupting influence of money
13 Dec 2011 | 1:37 pmLarry Lessig has a new book called Republic, Lost which discusses the corrupting influence of money on politics. I would highly recommend the book, because it gets to the heart of why things so many things in Washington, D.C. seem broken today and how to fix them.If you don’t have the time to read the book right now, you’re in luck. Lessig recently stopped by Google and gave a brief overview of the themes from the book. I had the honor of introducing him, and the video is live on the web now. Lessig’s talk is about 45 minutes long (the rest of the video is questions and… -
Beware of fake Matts leaving comments
11 Dec 2011 | 5:20 pmA lot of the time, I dispel misconceptions by leaving comments on blogs. That works great, except for the rare occasion when someone pretends to be me and leaves a rude, fake, or otherwise untrue blog comment. Over the previous decade, I’ve only seen 4-5 times where someone impersonated me. But in the last month, I’ve seen at least three nasty comments written by “fake Matt Cutts” impersonators.The first fake-Matt comment I remember was over Marketing Pilgrim around November 14th, 2011. When Frank Reed checked out the fake comment, it came from 74.120.13.132, which is… -
Progress against SOPA
21 Nov 2011 | 8:01 amWhen I did my blog post about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) last week, things looked quite grim. The fight isn’t over, but there’s been a lot of great developments in the last few days. If you’re not familiar with SOPA (and the PROTECT IP Act in the Senate), here’s a video that covers the basics:This internet censorship under SOPA editorial by Rebecca MacKinnon also describes why SOPA would be really bad for the internet.I also wanted to take a minute and thank everyone who called or wrote their Congressperson to speak out against SOPA and PROTECT IP. As a result…
